[Klathmon]

Man I love these things. Back before Twitter upped their character limits, I remember a trick to cram more data in a tweet was to abuse how Twitter counts characters (it attempts to count visually rather than by byte), so by using a ton of multipart emojis or larger Unicode characters to over double the information that could fit in a tweet.

[amenghra]

I thought about using Unicode, but it felt like cheating.

Perhaps someone can fit two games in a single multibyte tweet?

[lucb1e]

Multibyte chars is optimizing for Twitter, not for a set amount of bytes. If you try to fit in 140 bytes and you use >140 bytes because they are multibyte chars, then yeah, you're cheating. But if you're trying to "fit in a tweet", I'd say that's perfectly fair game.

Anyhow, two games... cool, but to be perfectly honest, I thought the game was going to be more like the real snake than just drawing a non-overlapping line on screen. A more impressive game might be more impressive than two games.

Then again, two games is also pretty darn cool.

[Klathmon]

IIRC weren't the Twitter length changes only applied to languages that weren't benefiting from the more "dense" encodings.

Meaning languages like Chinese and Japanese are still at the old limit.