Hello and welcome everyone!

It is time again already - we have September, which means you now have a month to suggest formats you wld like to see in this years Advent Calendar event! Please use this list of formats as a reference: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Formats

For all the n00bz around, here's a quick summary of what is going on:
From Dec 1st to Dec 24th, we will have daily battles featuring one format and bitpack. You have this day to make an entry and submit it. On the next day, a different format+bitpack will show up.
You can check out the previous event for more information!
You will not know which format or bitpack is next (surprise, surprise whoooo~)

There's also this lyceum article in case you wanna read even more about it: Advent Calendar (Battle series)

damifortune and me will plan and host the event together again like last time. :D

After we collected format suggestions in September, we will move on to ask for bitpacks and theme ideas in October and then prepare the schedule in November.

Let's gooooo~

>:)

was wondering how these were chosen last year

just curious
can we suggest multiple formats?

you may! but you also might get more likes if you posted only one. maybe! we do look at peoples' responses as a factor. but definitely feel free

we throw all suggestions in a big black box, throw it into the ocean, wait a few weeks and then tell an octopus to get it back to us.
then we ask a koala to eat all the untasty suggestions, add some syrup to the remaining ones and then use these to create a schedule

pixel

i am the octopus that fetches the box

renoise, LGPT, pure data, openmpt, jummbox, LSDJ, NTRQ, amigamod, commodore 64, photograph, NEC PC-x801 FM, any (all) of the midi formats

bespoke

hmmmmmm
yknow what
fuc it
les go weird

Tic-80 (trust me this could work)
weird ah Pandatracker (never seen this be hosted in any battle, yet not even VRF 2 had it (wut)
Pure Data bcuz visual programming for music sounds peak
ASCII Art bcuz it looks so cul
Whatever VCV Rack is

B E S P O K E

SVG cuz vectors are peak
and finally, Teletext

🗿

ansi, tic80, teletext, html5, svg, pdf, plaintext, vgm, furnace, pixel, draw, photomash

musescore

"Tic-80 (trust me this could work)"
@srb2er well yes, it worked before, it wld work again ;D
https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/The+Great+Elf+Gift+Exchange%21/57133/

famiplus, draw

M U S E S C O R E
P L E A S E

SunVox
pdf
YM2151

aym? ☺️

tic80

Adlib

I would personally love to see this be an Advent standard

pdf
nsfc
musescore

wildchip

mario paint

heyhowsitgoing uhhhh could I get uhhhhh

_allgear

and maybe like uhhhhhh yeah can I get uhhhhhhh lil bit of uhhh

_{remix (this one especially)}

perhaps... yeah actually canIalsogetuhhhhhhhhh

_wildchip

amiga mod, maybe ahx?
.mptm

_{also .wad lmao}

quake

pxtone :D

responding to DefenseMechanism's posts, I would also love to see a Renoise battle!

I feel vocal would be extremely fitting for such an event. 'Tis the season for caroling, after all!

( vocal battles in majors are terrible for completionists that hates singing! xD )

praying for some doom/boom, i feel like ive never seen those format show up in battles

adding doom/boom cuz i forgor they existed,

comma

> ( vocal battles in majors are terrible for completionists that hates singing! xD )

Who said you had to sing for it to be vocal? You could always use your voice to scream and/or create ambient noise in the background of your track, or something similar 😉

boom/doom/smw _{and quake/bsp, I'm sure y'all can fit it in as the surprise format ;)}
html5/tic80
vgm/furnace
plaintext/pdf
snibbetracker/lgpt
ansi/ascii/photo/photomash/teletext

@icrawfish i submitted one snoring! xD

vocale, vcv crack, sunvux, renoie, s3x, al gore, modxk, pagan sacrifice

Bring tic-80 back

@icrawfish

I remembered when I had contributed vocal ohb about screaming. Quite fun.

On topic: renoise, lgpt, s3xmodit, allgear, midi gs, svg, photomash

bump!

LSDJ MOD and YM2149 PLZ

last chance to get format suggestions in this weekend!

ByteBeat, 4k module, LunarMagic, and Teletext would all be pretty rad

Okay. Let me work for a Real Thing
YM2151, AdLib, FamiPlus, SNES, NSFC, Genesis

famiplus s3xmodit openmpt

waiter waiter more html(5?) please :)

last year we had plaintext, what if this year we had adorned text? (pdf)