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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 12d

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!

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Em Reed (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 18d

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...

Cave Story Revisited

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · 14d

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...

bitsy exits & endings usability survey

hello! thanks for taking this survey :)

forms.gle

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Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 16d

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.

The Forest and the Trees by Jill Murray

An upcycled game about finding ways to move on and finish art.

discojill.itch.io

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · 29d

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Sep 18

this looks super rad :D

riprip @ripripworld.bsky.social · Sep 16

how to build a supercool skatepark in the supercool new game engine "wareware" (easy tutorial)

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riprip @ripripworld.bsky.social · Sep 16

how to build a supercool skatepark in the supercool new game engine "wareware" (easy tutorial)

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · Aug 23

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!

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.

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jul 12

these look great! thanks for taking the time to share them :D

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · Jul 7

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.

Itsy Bitsy Exercises by Anna Anthropy

Exercises from a narrative design class

w.itch.io

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jul 3

ahhh that's so cool!! :D

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · Jul 2

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · Jul 2

just saw someone do a visuals set by making a scene in Bitsy. little castle of blood for some live coded metal. (cc @adamledoux.net)

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 30

simply mail a check for five dollars to a PO Box chosen at random (for best results also enclose a fragment of a treasured item thought lost but then recovered while cleaning house before moving)

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Oct 3

Before The Office actors rarely looked into the camera. This is because they were afraid of them. Yet by the time The Office began, most Americans had enough exposure to cameras throughout their lives to recognize them as useful domestically for their tendency to hunt mice near grain stores

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Hyphinett @hyphinett.bsky.social · Jun 26

I am a cat hyphinett.itch.io/i-am-a-cat #IndieGame #Bitsy #ShortGame #AltGames

I am a cat by Hyphinett

I am a cat

hyphinett.itch.io

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 28

these are the kinds of innovations the publishing industry needs to lean into if it’s going to survive in the 21st century

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 28

I had to give up after my postman complained about the ‘weird noises’ coming from my returned mail. that’s when I realized I could put the books under my pillow at night & wake up with complete knowledge of their contents. all my dreams are of flying under moonlit skies & eating cotton dress shirts

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 28

earlier this year I signed up for a book of the moth club: now each new moon a moth the size of a pony delivers a book to my front step. at first I tried to unsubscribe since I couldn’t read the strange symbols on the pages, but the publisher has no email & my letters were marked returned to sender

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 22

#bitsyjam 93 - man in the moon

submissions open from today through the end of the month!

itch.io/jam/bitsy-93...

man in the moon (bitsy jam #93)

A game jam from 2025-06-22 to 2025-07-01 hosted by adam le doux. Welcome to the bitsy jam for june! Theme This month's theme is

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 17

the june #bitsyjam theme poll is open!

possible themes:
🍰 baking
🌝 man in the moon
⬇️ down
🌡️ melting

vote here:
ledoux.itch.io/bitsy/devlog...

vote for the june #bitsyjam theme!

poll is open through tomorrow evening! Loading...

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 7

as promised i’ve published the tools i used to make WIZARD GARDEN

i’m calling these games-in-a-bookmarklet ‘cartlets’ and i’ve added a page about it on my website

if that sounds interesting to you, i hope you’ll check it out!

adamledoux.net/cartlet/inde...

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 7

thank you so much!! it took a lot more time than i expected but i’m happy with it xD

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 7

i wrote some more notes about it over on my blog <3

adamledoux.net/blog/posts/2...

introducing cartlet - a found software format

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adam le doux @adamledoux.net · Jun 7

the whole toolkit is packaged as a Netscape-format bookmarks file, which means you can just import it into your web browser to get started!

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