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by amenghra 2885 days ago
I thought about using Unicode, but it felt like cheating.

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

2 comments

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.

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.