We wanted to celebrate our 5th birthday in style and show off some of our mad digital skills as the same time. We built an interactive party invitation with a difference: Instead of simply RSVPing, guests had the chance to create their own 8-Bit digital party avatar. The creation was then fed into a database and printed onto lanyards to wear as ID tags on the night. As an added bonus, we linked attendees Twitter accounts to their (now animated) avatars on two giant screens in our laneway space. Guests could tweet their adventures and conversations throughout the night, which led to some pretty interesting 'virtual party' conversations! And yes, the virtual Twitter party continued to rock on until our IT manager needed the power board back on Monday morning.