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UDG advent calendar thread

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Let's see if this has legs: A festive UDG advent calendar. The idea is that at least one person posts a Christmas-themed UDG every day up to and including Chrimbobo :santa

Here goes nothing!

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(and here it is using @Patrik Rak's unicode characters U+2B1B and U+2B1C.
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A superlative suggestion, sir, with just two minor flaws. One, there can't be that many Christmas-themed images that'll fit into an 8×8 UDG. And two... there can't be that many Christmas-themed images that'll fit into an 8×8 UDG. Now, I realise that, technically speaking, that's only one flaw but I thought it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice.

Nevertheless, now that we're Living After Midnight and it's 2nd December, I'll make one:

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Bah! Humbug!

May you not find many such partially-melted humbugs gumming up the tape deck of your +2 after leaving them too close to the festive fire and where your five-year-old nephew could get hold of them and stuff them into all sorts of places that they shouldn't be.

ALSO: I expect a set of 21 of these to be SAVEd "advent" CODE USR "a" and presented as part of the WOOT! package. Right?
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Nice UDG. Your next challenge is Scrooge in 64 pixels!
TMD2003 wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:12 am A superlative suggestion, sir, with just two minor flaws. One, there can't be that many Christmas-themed images that'll fit into an 8×8 UDG. And two... there can't be that many Christmas-themed images that'll fit into an 8×8 UDG.
Nah it'll be a piece of pudding. The challenge will be not repeating @Kweepa's Advent Calendar, which I got us off to a bad start, but it's a different arrangement of pixels at least.
ALSO: I expect a set of 21 of these to be SAVEd "advent" CODE USR "a" and presented as part of the WOOT! package. Right?
That's not a bad idea. Let's see how they turn out...
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Is there an online way of creating a UDG essentially a way of editing the 8x8 grid?
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Yes, it’s just a star, but it’s a nice star :P

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stupidget wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:51 am Is there an online way of creating a UDG essentially a way of editing the 8x8 grid?
Try this one. Just click 8x8 at the bottom of the page:

https://zx.remysharp.com/sprites/
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stupidget wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:51 am Is there an online way of creating a UDG essentially a way of editing the 8x8 grid?
Another one at
http://www.amelyn.com/speccy_character_ ... /index.htm
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A reindeer!
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This is supposed to be a bauble:
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My poor try at 8x8:

(It's supposed to be a present, sorry.)

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Here’s one I made. (Spoiler’d so you can open it for a mild surprise just like a real advent calendar!)
December 7th
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Eh?
It’s a lovely Christmas pud! Everyone’s got a little bit of room for some pud!
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Very good, I like the reindeer. Let's see if we can do one a day till Christmas 🎄🎁🎄🎁
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hikoki wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:43 am A reindeer!
My fave so far! Very good.
Timmy wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:12 pm A present
Nice! Like my own festive gift-giving the emphasis goes on the ribbons and ephemera to draw attention away from the modest size of the gift! :santa
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TMD2003 wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:12 amthere can't be that many Christmas-themed images that'll fit into an 8×8 UDG.
There are 2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (about 18 quintillion) possible 8x8 UDGs.

Although only a small percentage of them look meaningful, and only a percentage of those can be interpreted as Christmas related theme... I still suspect we won't exhaust them all very soon.
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A beautiful snow scene.
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redballoon wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:48 pm A beautiful snow scene.
You forgot the icicles... :(

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A lovely night scene in the English countryside:

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Elf carrying gifts with backpack :)

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Crafty inversion there. That's one thing we haven't mentioned yet - what PAPER, INK and (god forbid) FLASH values...
FLASH values...
And some of us had lightning and snow last night!
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The Grinch
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Santa needed a black outline, but the inner is 8x8:

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Sack of gifts on sled
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Joefish wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:46 pm Santa needed a black outline, but the inner is 8x8:
Nice. Could also be a Chibi snowman.
hikoki wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 11:20 am Image
The Grinch
Where?! I'm going to need some help seeing this one (your Reindeer was superb btw)
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