I haven’t missed a real-life Evoke party since… *checks notes* 2013? Sadly, holiday plans were clashing this year and I couldn’t be there.

This year was celebrating the 25th Evoke installment and I was excited to learn that 420 years of Teletext was featured in the #evoke25 demo show on Friday (at 02:26:00 in the Twitch stream recording).

That would have been awesome to re-watch live at the party with everyone! :’)

But… I still wanted to hand in something, and I had an idea for a pixel graphics entry. For the Evoke pixel graphics competition, the organizers traditionally announce a fixed palette which reliably leads to some grumpy backlash every year.

Not meaning to single out jok here, or anyone – those reactions are a tradition as well. :) My idea was to make a little animation about them for fun. See the prod page: hrrngh!

The palette wasn’t even that terrible IMHO, see for example Steffest’s winning entry or Titus/Rabenauge’s fantastic piece:

I’m not too sad about the missed party, though – there are more demo parties to come and the vacation sure was nice!