A Bitsy Tutorial
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Bitsy is a web-based game-making tool on itch.io made by @adamledoux, available at ▻https://ledoux.itch.io/bitsy.
It’s a tool with an active and growing community, with hundreds of games being made ranging from short personal stories to exploration of intricate fantasy worlds, and everything in between.
It’s a tool that people love so much because of its constraints. The limited colour palettes, tiny pixel canvas and simple mechanics allow for very focused ideas and thoughts in the games that people create in it. Every pixel, word, and colour decision has so much weight, and is capable of conveying so much in the absence of other noise. But, an 8x8 pixel grid gives you 1.8446744 x 1019 possible options for every tile. So how limited is that really?
It’s also super easy and satisfying to use, with no need to code anything at all. It’s so expressive, and basically every Bitsy game ends up being completely charming by default.