Smaller! Make all the games smaller!
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Smaller! Make all the games smaller!
i used twine to make an interactive fiction game for casio calculators :)
(and i made a tool so you can too <3)
adamledoux.net/blog/posts/2...
Oops I'm running a game jam! Make an RPG using pre-made maps; figure out how to give it your own spin without changing any of the tiles. Feel free to join in on the fun! itch.io/jam/cookie-c...
Shareware game Mega Peril Snake (1996) by Digital Sheep/Beau Chesluk (a programmer on Perfect Dark (2000)). Features distinctive burp/belch sound effects when eating the animated abstract shapes, and a child's voice saying "have a good day!" when you exit. On "Galaxy of Games: Arcade Action" CD
NOCTURNE, a new RPG Adventure made with bitsy !
⚔️ Face the Dark Knight and defeat him! Explore the world, gather items and discover secrets!
By @twewyb.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-73
Image of GUTSPILL #1 cover and announcement of launch
We’re launching a zine about games and play called GUTSPILL!
A place to shamelessly gush about play experiences that embed themselves in our hearts and brains and GUTS! No industry talk, no metrics ~ just SPILL!
#1 features words by me and the Jameseses: @jickle.net + @omgmorejames.bsky.social
excited to see what folks do with the theme for #bitsyjam 99
itch.io/jam/bitsy-99...
tis the season,,,, for bumpslash
better late than wait! the 88x31 button advent calendar is now live 🎁
screenshot of my WIP flatgame maker tool some cats, UI for uploading a custom character, and transmission towers there is a message in the main view: it's been a while... sorry for the lack of updates, i am working on a cool new project hope to have it in your hands shortly :)
Are there any game devs today doing postcardware, where a person sends a postcard if they enjoy the game or software instead of money?
postcardware.net
Anemo, a red character with rosy cheeks, a big nose, and an Anemometer on their head. They're wearing a green boiler suit with yellow boots and a backpack.
Vane, a yellow character with small dot eyes, a round orange nose, and a weather vane with an orange bird on his head. He's wearing an orange boiler suit with green gloves and boots, and a brown waist bag.
Turbine, a green character with large white eyes with small pupils and eyelashes, freckles, a protruding upper lip with buck teeth, and a wind turbine on her head. She is wearing a white suit with orange accents and a satchel.
Fandroid, a blue robot with a single yellow eye placed asymetrically on the right side of its dome shaped head with a fan on top. Its body is roughly cylindrical with bolts holding it together, with a gauge on the left side of its body. Its arms are long metal tubes ending with claws. from its back, various pipes and antennae stick out.
clay models of the crew members from Formless Star
don't tempt me lol >:)
folks,, we 're back
just replayed cave story recently and it got me thinking….. what if i made a game for windows 95
updated my website again.. you can switch to dark mode in the top left now :) going to start catching up my shader tutorials onto the rss feed over there also bobacupcake.com
new blog post :)
reading: cave story, corrypt, solo gamemaking - oh my!
adamledoux.net/blog/feed.ht...
Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.
Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!
Haven't read this yet but syslbnth's Yu-No essay is one of my all-timer pieces of games writing so I'm sure this is also good: syslbnth.neocities.org/htxt/cave-st...
hey y'all, I'm collecting feedback about bitsy's exits and endings features (I'm looking into updating them in the next bitsy version)
if you have a few minutes to fill out a short survey, I'd really appreciate it!
forms.gle/TM8U4dkggJoh...
I took a Bitsy game I never finished, about a maple syrup heist, and turned it into a poetic memoir about finishing things, for a @gamepoems.bsky.social submission. I'm told it will be shared this weekend at the Winchester Poetry Festival in the UK, which I'm excited about. Takes ~5 mins to play.
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this looks super rad :D
how to build a supercool skatepark in the supercool new game engine "wareware" (easy tutorial)
Crafting Interactive Fiction with Bitsy. With Anna Anthropy. September 28 to October 19. 4 weeks online workshop, 150 minutes per session.
What if a work of fiction were more like a space – something readers could wander, struggle against, push at the boundaries of? Digital games let us weave interactivity, spatiality and friction into storytelling. In this class, we’ll use Adam Le Doux’s Bitsy – a free browser-based game tool – to create interactive narratives. If you love storytelling and want experiment with new tools to tell new kinds of stories, this class is for you. Beijing Time: September 28, October 5, October 12, October 19, Sundays, 9:00 - 11:30 AM New York Time: September 27, October 4, October 11, October 18, Saturdays, 9:00 - 11:30 PM
Our 150-minute workshops will consist of guided tutorials, artistic discussions and creative exercises. Over the course of four meetings, participants will write, develop and revise a work of original interactive fiction. At the end of the class, outstanding projects will have the opportunity to be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York.
Anna Anthropy is a game designer, educator and cyborg. Her work, both digital and tabletop, explores themes of queerness, kink and disability. Her most well-known digital games include dys4ia and Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars; some of her recent tabletop work includes Coldbloods, The Fool's Journey, and the award-winning Forgotten Palaces. Anna is the author of several books on games and game design, including A Game Design Vocabulary, Rise of the Video Game Zinesters, ZZT, and the Make Your Own Video Games! series from No Starch press. She has shown work in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. She lives in Chicago with a little black cat named Encyclopedia Frown.
I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!
these look great! thanks for taking the time to share them :D
for the next couple weeks i'll be posting exercises from my old narrative design class every day. i used #bitsy by @adamledoux.net, so these are all bitsy files that can be imported into the bitsy editor, along with posts describing guidelines and objectives.
ahhh that's so cool!! :D
