Any Digital Advent Calendars?

Hey guys! I did a pixel-art advent last year and while Im not sure what exactly I’ll do this year I’m excited to make some kind of advent calendar this year too. Is anyone else making one or knows of someone who’s making one? I really love keeping up with others’ advents whether its blogging, art, microsites, etc. So please feel free to link any 2025 digital advents in this topic! :snowflake: :christmas_tree: :snowflake:

The List so far:

:snowflake: Petra Pixel’s Advent Calendar of Digital Challenges!

:snowflake: PICO-8 2025 Advent Calendar

:snowflake: Ashmolean Musuem Advent Calendar

:snowflake: Finny’s Fave Neocities Sites 2025 Digital Advent

:snowflake: Irony Machine’s 2025 advent calendar thingy

:snowflake: Public Domain Advent Calendar

:snowflake: Sweetfish’s Button Advent Calendar

:snowflake: Hat’s Advent Calendar

:snowflake: Mima’s Advent Calendar

:snowflake: Lapin’s Advent Calendar

:snowflake: Hors’ Advent Calendar

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I am tentatively planning a “24 days of ARIA” (which only makes sense to people who work with web technologies) but maybe that counts.

A pixel art advent calendar sounds cool. An adventure game forum I used to be a regular part of used to do a monthly a pixel art challenge. It would be fun to do a similar thing. I will look up your previous calendar and maybe take part🙂

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Pico-8 are doing an Advent Calendar of tiny mini games. I have my game ready to go. Have a look at the 2024 cart (2 of my games are on it). They may not get 24/25 games, but most days there will be at least a game!

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Oh this looks really cool! I had a lot of fun making my first Pico-8 game.

https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/show-us-your-game-dev-projects/3030/8?u=straydogstrut

I’m not sure I have time, but might try to fit something in🙂

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You would be welcome! Discord is active and a few folks are making things. Few folks have made some deep games but honestly a lot of simple games are sometimes needed :slightly_smiling_face:. Last year I think I turned out a game in 2 weeks as I had time and were one game short.

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any advent calendar counts to me! I totally forgot to link mine from last year… its just a few pixel dolls

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Oh wow, those are incredible!:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Maybe next year I could do one. A manatee-themed one with pixel art and fun facts? Or maybe a crayon-themed one…

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thank u very much!! :face_holding_back_tears:

omg that would be amazing!! excited for next year already ahaha

I still need to check out the links on here but I saw this and decided to drop by to post it. The Ashmolean museum has an advent calendar on its site: https://www.ashmolean.org/advent

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oh thats so cool! thanks for linking that <3 the day 2 Roman Bronze Brooch is awesome, I’d own one now lol

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Here are a couple more advent calendars for you to check out:

BMH Online
Irony Machine

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these are great, thank u for linking!! :pixelcat1:

What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026?

This is an interesting one I just found this morning on MetaFilter - an advent calendar of works that will enter the public domain on January 1.

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Sweetfish.site is doing a 88x31 button calendar!

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this one is so great, thx for linking! Albert Einstein entering public domain cracked me up haha

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oh what a great idea and i love these! ty for the link <3

This is so good! Thanks for sharing :slightly_smiling_face:

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I love the 88x31 advent calendar :slight_smile:

We’re on day 9 of the Pico-8 Advent Calendar. My game - “Mari Lwyd’s Pantri Panic” - went live today :)

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