open thread: what are you working on?

I'm a game designer from Ukraine and I use Bitsy to create games about the Russian-Ukrainian war from a civilian leftist perspective. The first one have come out in March and was developed partially while I was still in Kharkiv, hiding in the bomb shelter. The second one has come out just recently and was made in much more comfortable circumstances.

I've also written a Bitsy tutorial in Ukrainian, Russian and English languages. It's a bit longer than I would want it to be, but still hopefully can help someone who's interested in making games with Bitsy.

I plan to continue using this amazing engine for making more games about war and other current problems!

Currently not creating anything related to Bitsy, but I have been working on modding projects for a few other games. One of these modding projects is known as Future Spectrum, which is a mod of The End is Nigh, a quite obscure game.

This modding project is a collaboration between multiple people that know how to mod the game including me to provide a new experience to various parts of another in-development mod for the same game, Shattered Spectrum.

Below are some screenshots of areas within Future Spectrum, most being released. The screenshots under this horizontal rule are from released areas, while the other two under the next horizontal rule are not released at the time of this comment.

I've finished my first game...ever! Just wanted to say thank you for Bitsy and this great community.

I think I've lost the will needed to make games. Started a new game development course a while ago, and all was going well until the first practical exercise came... even if it should be kinda easy, it became something I couldn't finish.

I'm reading a lot. I'm watching movies and series. I'm playing those games I could not play for years. I'm learning Chinese. So, I guess I'm working into coming back to making games, if you want to look at it thay way?

I still get and note ideas for developing small games, hoping that one day I will be able to actually make them. Anyway, I'm sharing all this so, if anyone is passing through the same creative draught or whatever, and happens to read this... well, know that you are not alone, that it's ok to take time for you and for your talent and spirit to recharge, and that I have faith in that you will be able to make games again, just like I know I will make another game again eventually.

Much love to this community

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I've been making games as a hobby for around three years, but I've always felt a bit dissatisfied with my games because they didn't really carry a strong message or value. It takes a lot of work to make a game that's functional and visually appealing to begin with, so I was never able to focus on narration.

Around a year ago, I found out about Bitsy and was immediately seduced: with no coding required and a handy tile editor, I could finally skip the technical stuff and work on the meaningful part of the game experience!

After working on it for several months, I published a few days ago the first game I feel genuinely proud of: a Bitsy based on Ursula Le Guin's theory of carrier-bag fiction. I feel really inspired by this tool and I will keep on making more narrative games with it in the future! Thanks Adam ^_^

I have read the game preservation article, and my WIP project is related to this. In the flash age, a Chinese creator made a flash version of the old game Tower of the Sorcerer. The flash version was shorter than the original, but popular between Chinese players. I have played it too. Now flash is gone, fortunately the Tower of the Sorcerer community still develops the game series in various version and MOD. Recently I found this fun game has only simple game-logic , simple control, simple texture so that I can make a Bitsy version(still needs some Bitsy-hacks) for it. I made a demo, and the further version is WIP.

Not working on anything Bitsy-specific, but have been doing a lot of planning lately, and collaborating, plus a little advocating of Bitsy in my indie gamedev circles.

Been looking at the PlayDate Pulp tool, and portability to-and-from Bitsy. Seeing what works there, and what's different between the two tools, and just figuring out current good tools for Bitsy that are also equal parts easy, powerful, and fun to use.

Also been working on kicking around an idea for a yet-another-Bitsy-anthology collection :)

Oh right, for the project that I am working on- it was super-easy to get the games integrated into my custom offline front-end. Bitsy continues to be a delight to work with both directly and indirectly.

Next week I'll be reshooting my Bitsy tutorial video to break it up into smaller pieces. Scripting and graphics are done. It's part of a series of videos I did for our College of Design as an online version of a workshop that I had previously taught IRL (Covid) 4 times for our College. The videos will be available via Design Lab's YouTube channel. It's on the basics of game design using an easy to learn, low threshold tool (Bitsy) that lets students focus on being game designers. I have a companion web site that is a resource for teachers and students. All of this is my doctoral research.

The game I started making a couple of weeks ago and which is almost finished isn't a Bitsy one, but it's my first game made in "Pocket Platformer", which quite a few people describe as "the Bitsy of platforming". When my game is finished I'll have some suggestions for Pocket Platformer's dev (as PoPlat is still a work in progress), and for that purpose I'm taking several cues from Bitsy, particularly in regards things that serve story-based games well.

I've always tried to push the limits with Bitsy, using other people's Bitsy Hacks and making whatever edits I need to the HTML, and I'm doing the same thing with PoPlat. It's a totally different type of gameplay, though, so I'm sure I'll continue to make Bitsy games without it needing a platformer mode ;)

I am currently working on a series of poetry games. I was heavily inspired by a graphic novel called Poems to See by where the illustrator did a bunch of comics based around poetry. I thought it’d be fun to do with games and bitsy was a good tool to do it with

I have done two so far and hope to do at least four more in the series!

I am running a game design course with youth aged 12-15 exploring ethics and civics. The games they create are meant to produce some form of moral dissonance in the player. 

It's a full curriculum we developed where youth can explore different roles in game design while discussing concerns in their community. 

My students in my Game Development course have made some really awesome games/experiences with the tool you have developed. Thank you so much for making this freely available, and to the community at large for helping further its development.

https://khs-interactive.mrawhite.repl.co/games.html

That is a really cool idea Adam! 

So I am juggling multiple project at the same time but my project where I am the happiest about creating is a little marble game.

You accelerate while rolling down the dunes and then fly across vast distances. It’s all on an alien planet that you have to repopulate with foliage. (that is my little tribute to wall-es impact on my life).

And if I don’t feel like coding in the godot engine I continue working on Rusty Blade my little 3D Bitsy game that takes way too long :D.  That would be my attempt at changing the things I don’t like about RPGs and doing some meta storytelling. 

And if I would want to torture myself I would try again to export my ue4 kit for the unreal engine 5 which somehow always triggers an absurd number of console warnings :( . 

Or I would continue making my game set around a highway where you realise you would need to move on from your relationship but that is kinda a dark space which currently don’t want to occupy in my mind so that on halt I guess. 

haha it got kinda long. Hope your work on the sound system is striving and everyone else who read this keeps doing their pieces which they are proud of

I’ve joined the Greenlight Jam (one of my first) and I’ve decided to make my first Bitsy game as my project.

The aim is for it to be a creepy tale, in which the play explore’s their family home and discovers why her sister and mother before her have been stuck there.

Right now, I’m just trying to work out whether what I have in my head is possible without me spending forward working on it.