btw i've been cataloguing all the bitsy games i can find here, there will be around 500 by 2018!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eBUgCYOnMJ9REHuZdTodc6Ft2Vs6JXbH4K-bIgL9TPc/edit?usp=sharing

it's interesting that the changing features create a kind of strata in the style, complexity, structure of the games. single rooms tend towards frozen moments in time. exits give the ability to have distinct scenes, show the passage or time, add branching. the introduction items brings one-time dialogue, narration for entering new areas, footprints. the dialogue scripting opens up more options for backtracking, and hiding the solutions to mazes behind collectables and quests. personally i feel like the limitations are giving way too fast, there's so much still to explore...

bitsy is a tool for making tiny tile based worlds... it's the only tool i enjoy using at the moment. it's everything i wanted from rpgmaker pared right down. who else is using it?? who else is it excited?? who has truly remarkable thoughts which a tweet is too small to contain??

bitsy itself: http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html
bitsy aggregation: https://twitter.com/bitsypcs
my review: http://kool.tools/post/165868621332/bitsy

btw i've been cataloguing all the bitsy games i can find here, there will be around 500 by 2018!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eBUgCYOnMJ9REHuZdTodc6Ft2Vs6JXbH4K-bIgL9TPc/edit?usp=sharing

it's interesting that the changing features create a kind of strata in the style, complexity, structure of the games. single rooms tend towards frozen moments in time. exits give the ability to have distinct scenes, show the passage or time, add branching. the introduction items brings one-time dialogue, narration for entering new areas, footprints. the dialogue scripting opens up more options for backtracking, and hiding the solutions to mazes behind collectables and quests. personally i feel like the limitations are giving way too fast, there's so much still to explore...

i think you're thinking of zzt?

yeah just a small tool for easily shifting the tiles in a map along if you built it too close to the edge or something

i feel like the dialogue is a little too complex but i'm seeing what i can do with it anyway. i'm finding the ui is becoming a big pain though - so many windows to manage! i really think it'd benefit from collapsing all the non-map stuff into rpgmaker style event squares (but not rpgmaker style scripting lol)

bitsy is a tool for making tiny tile based worlds... it's the only tool i enjoy using at the moment. it's everything i wanted from rpgmaker pared right down. who else is using it?? who else is it excited?? who has truly remarkable thoughts which a tweet is too small to contain??

bitsy itself: http://ledoux.io/bitsy/editor.html
bitsy aggregation: https://twitter.com/bitsypcs
my review: http://kool.tools/post/165868621332/bitsy