Genuary 2025

2025 TIC80

Genuary is a yearly event where people write creative code and share the results online. It happens every January, and for every day there is a prompt to follow to base your art on. There are no strict rules about how to interpret the prompt, or the order in which to do them, genuary is a purely an excercise in sharing creativity. I only started this year's genuary later in the year, but still had a lot of fun being inspired by a new prompt every day. I decided to use TIC-80 as my tool, as I love using it for quickly jamming code. Below is a selection of my favorite results, paired with the prompt of that day.

Day 1: Vertical or horizontal lines only.

Day 2: Layers upon layers upon layers.

Day4: Black on black.

Day 5: Isometric Art.

Day 6: Make a landscape using only primitive shapes.

Day 8: Draw one million of something.

Day 10: You can only use TAU in your code, no other number allowed.

Day 12: Subdivision.

Day 12 alternate version.

Day 13: Triangles and nothing else.

Day18: What does wind look like?

Day 20: Generative Architecture.

Day 21: Create a collision detection system.

Day 22: Gradients only.

Day 23: Inspired by brutalism.

Day 24: Geometric art - pick either a circle, rectangle, or triangle and use only that geometric shape.

Day 24 alternate version.

Day 24 alternate version 2.

Day 24 remix.

Day 25: One line that may or may not intersect itself.

Day 26: Symmetry.

Day 26 alternate version.

Day 27: Make something interesting with no randomness or noise or trig.

Day 28: Infinite Scroll.

Day 29: Grid-based graphic design.

Day 31: Pixel sorting.

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