Basically, what I want to do is have a series of items that the player can interact with in the one room – but I want them to appear in a certain order, and only one at a time. What I’ve tried so far is making a number of identical rooms that the player can access by stepping into a tile close to the item (making it seem like the one room if you hit the right tiles), but I’m not content with this system as it seems finicky and prone to accidents. Is there an obvious better way to go about this?

Sorry for any clunky wording – if there’s anything confusing about my phrasing or if the situation isn't entirely clear, I’m happy to further clarify!

I’ve been working on a Bitsy game using this version: https://aurysystem.github.io/bitsy-forks/bitsy-color-3d/index.html . I was thinking about adding a couple of things to the game.

First, I would like to add music. I know there is a hack to make music inside the Bitsy environment, but I couldn’t figure out how to add it to the actual Bitsy version I’m working on.

Second, I want to add a final 2D scene using this: https://ruin.itch.io/pixsy . However, I don’t know if it’s possible to mix 2D and 3D scenes or how to do so.

I would really appreciate it if someone could give me some advice on how to achieve these things.

Thank you in advance!

So I started creating a short narrative game with Bitsy last year and now I'm going back to my game, but now I'm using Aseprite to draw my new room's backgrounds because it's easier to modify it (I'm using Pixsy when my backgrounds PNG are done). 

The problem is : I want to import in Aseprite the rooms I created *directly with Bitsy* tiles system last year, but I don't know  how to export them in PNG.

Is there even a way to export Bitsy's rooms in PNG file ?

Like Pixsy but inverted process (Bitsy room to picture/PNG)

Thanks! :-)

I'm working on my second bitsy game for a game jam and wanted to use more than one color in some rooms. 

I didn't add any new colorcodes, just COL and then the color numbers from bitsy for either black or white for a few sprites. I also made two sprites transparent (BGC *).

There weren't any problems when I first made those changes. However after a few days of working on the game, it just started crashing in the middle of testing, usally on spaces before room exits. The animation of the avatar stops and I can't move anymore. 

After deleting the rooms in which the game would crash and repainting them, the game crashed in some other spaces too. I don't know why, especially because it's not even crashing in rooms, where the sprites are, that have a transparent background or a 4. color. 

Did anyone else have problems with bitsy crashing like that?

Any advice is much appreciated!

- Leaf (they/them)

I've also suffered from bitsy freezing and requiring a page reload whenever i use the music editor. Any advice?

I managed to do this with a very dumb solution, and I wanted to ask if there's a clever way.

https://kednar.itch.io/i-fell-off-my-ship

As you see in the video linked below, the spaceship appears to move away by changing rooms. The dumb part is that I used one-way-exits to move to the next room, and since I want players to move in any direction while the room changes, I had to add a ton of exits. This took time and my dignity.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UI8tiCEbZUmznuHsgoHUrMt44sTnkabZ/view?usp=shari...

Another way I tried is to use the edit-room-from-dialog hack to erase and draw the ship sprites when the player picks up an item around them, instead of changing rooms. I used the same hack to draw this item everywhere with "drawAll", to allow players to move in any direction. However, this method is cumbersome as I cannot preview the results in the editor.

The best idea I had was to change room when players pick up an item that's around them (using the aforementioned hack to draw it everywhere). However, changing room from the item dialog requires specific coordinates where the avatar will be put, and we want the avatar to stay where it was when it moved and picked up the item.

So here's the rub: I want the player avatar to stay in the same location where they picked up the item that takes them to another room (the location of the item is not known as it's instanced everywhere). Basically, I need to have the exit from dialog act as a proper one-way-exit.

Something like:

{exit "0" player.x player,y}

Alternatively, do you have a different solution in mind for what I'm trying to do?

Thanks so much!

I am working on a game myself and I face some difficulties when it comes to dialog choices. I use Borksy to add the dialog choices hack and the exit from a dialog hack. However, I have no idea how I can allow the player choose a specific option from the dialog and then it will jump right into a specific room. I tried using gpt, and it told me I should do something like

DLG npc1

"""

Where are you going？

{choice

  - I am going to the garden

    {exit "garden"}

  - I am staying at home

    {exit "bedroom"}

}

"""

but it didn't work, the choices is there but it didn't exit and lead me to the specific room. 

Thank you for your help!

However if I open the .html file in my browser, it will play the track no problem. The struggle here is when I'm playtesting my game the music doesn't play and it kind of defeats the purpose.

• The .mp3 file is in the same folder as the hacked .html file
• Used Borksy and Candle's tool but same thing: file only worked when opening in browser
• I made sure I was patching any saves via Bitsy Savior

FWIW here is my hackOptions

var hackOptions = {
    // Put entries in this list for each audio file you want to use
    // the key will be the id needed to play it in dialog tags and the musicByRoom options below,
    // and the value will be the properties of the corresponding <audio> tag (e.g. src, loop, volume)
    // `src` can be either a string, or an array of strings (to support fallbacks in different formats)
    // Note: you can add <audio> tags to the html manually if you prefer
    audio: {
        // Note: the entries below are examples that should be removed and replaced with your own audio files
        'siltStrider': { src: './Silt Strider.mp3', loop: true },
        // 'example sfx ID': { src: './example sfx filepath.mp3', volume: 0.5 },
        // 'example with multiple formats': { src: ['./preferred.mp3', './fallback.ogg'] },
    },
    // Put entries in this list for every room ID or name that will change the music
    // If the player moves between rooms with the same audio ID, the music keeps playing seamlessly.
    // Undefined rooms will keep playing whatever music they were last playing
    musicByRoom: {
        // Note: the entries below are examples that should be removed and replaced with your own room -> audio id mappings
        0: 'siltStrider',
        1: 'S', // This room is silent - it will stop music when you enter (see `silenceId` below)
        2: 'another song ID',
        h: 'a song ID for a room with a non-numeric ID',
        'my room': 'a song ID for a room with a user-defined name',
    },
    silenceId: 'S', // Use this song ID to make a room fall silent.
    resume: false, // If true, songs will pause/resume on change; otherwise, they'll stop/play (doesn't affect sound effects)
};

- The kooltools bitsy hack https://kool.tools/bitsy/tools/bitsymuse-ui/, which I found through watching this tutorial  (I also watched one about borksy)  www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyVA2qAEFoA&t=3s - however, this did not work, and the tutorial seems to be demonstating on an older bitsy version.

-Using borksy to add the bitsymuse hack.

-Opening the games script using chrome > developer tools and adding the Github 'bitsymuse' hack in.

-  Candle's tool to add one audio to the game https://candle.itch.io/bitsy-audio (I would prefer multiple room audios but wanted to see if I could make any external music work!)

After downloading the 'hacked html' file in each case, I put it in a folder also containing the .mp3 or .wav music files (tried with both) and then opened it. However, nothing seemed to work. To be honest, I have next to no coding knowledge so I am 98% sure these are not working due to my own errors and misinterpreting instructions. 

I wondered if anyone had any tips, tutorials or advice as to how to make this work? Or other places to seek advice?

If so, thank you so much! If this is the wrong place to ask, sorry! 

I'm developing on Windows with Chrome. Pressing "New Game" erased all data, but downloads and uploads to itch.

Othe game..... BitsyBox's games load fine, so Unicode Asian settings might be the cause.

Is anyone else facing this?   Any solutions would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry I'm opening this new subject bc my exits and endings don't stop changing all by itself without doing anything and it drives me crazy. Sometimes it changes the rooms attached to it, sometimes it changes either the X,Y position of exit or ending, or sometimes it just disappear or invents  a brand new exit/ending with random rooms or positions ??? Occasionnaly when I refresh my browser it returns to normal but it's quite precarious

I read ppl experienced this a year ago but it seems the issue hasn't been corriged yet ?

How can I still work on my game with this problem ?

UPDATE : problem solved when I refresh my page !

I'm currently working on my first bitsy game and id like my first room to be just like a POV character/contemplative landscape + a few words,  without any exploration or interactions. Just my decor (made of tiles), then a textbox appears with some thoughts of my character, but no sprites, avatar or items. But it seems all dialogues have to be linked to a value, an item or sprite collision. How can i make it happen ?

My first idea - because it seems my avatar have to be in the room 0 anyways- was to morph my avatar in a tiny sprite for this room like a dot, so it feels like he's not here, and...

I tried to take a look at conditions, but it doesn't seem there is a way to do something like :

If (my avatar is in the room) then : dialogue X appears 

[then after my text I want it to automatically transport to the next room]

Any ideas to do this ?

Thank u !!

sorry for my english im french :)

I'm working on my first Bitsy game and I'm having trouble changing the avatar when moving from room to room. I would like to keep the default avatar for most rooms, but in some cases I would like to change the avatar temporarily upon entering a room.

If I change the avatar when exiting a room the avatar is reset to the avatar chosen in the settings of the destination room.

I've also tried placing an invisible item in the square where the avatar enters the room, but it seems that items are only interacted with when moving about manually. The item is picked up and the avatar changes if I step out of the square and then enter it again.

I know I could make a copy of the room with the necessary settings, but I would like to avoid this as it feels like it will get unwieldy to manage over time.

Having the option to run a dialog when entering a room seems like an useful feature and I'm a bit surprised that it is not possible. Am I missing something?

Howdy! Hosting a game jam right now and was pushing people to use bitsy. Had a community member try to download the html of their file and it seemingly erased all of their game_data and only downloaded a blank file? Is there any hope of recovery?

They are on OperaGX with the Amazon Assistant, Paypal Honey, and (my guess for the issue) uBlock Origin as extensions

We tried getting the local game storage but apparently it just had the same, empty/blank bitsy html they had gotten when they first tried to download.

TIA!

Is there any way to have Bitsy remember the room and avatar position the player entered the inventory from, and return them there afterwards? I guess it would need the Javascript dialog hack and storing the room and coordinates on variables, but I can't figure it out from the hack examples.

Thanks in advance

Basically, its the same item (flower), with a sequence list in it. I've just broken it up by 15 items/dialogs per page. And after 15, it exits to the next room, where you can pick more flowers. There's 3 rooms. 

The sequence is 45 lines long. My guess is its a bug/ i've broken it. But also not sure why that would happen. 

any ideas? 

plz n thank u

I make a very, very simple game with some sprites and exits. When I play the game everything is fine. When I press "stop," it replaces all my tiles and sprites with different ones from within the game. An animated tile will flash between two different (unrelated) tiles or even add a sprite into the mix! 

I have no idea why this is happening. I even shut down my computer and browser and made a brand new game. It happened again. Am I missing something? Is it supposed to work this way? I have no hacks or other tools added to the game. It's just plain Bitsy. Help?

Thanks!

https://eevee.itch.io/roguelike-simulator

https://candle.itch.io/flotsam

But my recent project runs fine:

https://zackyzzz.itch.io/roguelike-rng-simulator

Why is that?

Is it because  i'm using the newest version? Or because my work is tiny?

I've recently tried to use bitsy muse ui tool but, i don't know how the options for the sfx works. 

I've followed the instructions in the options but adding code to the dialogs directly in bitsy doesn't work.

Does anyone have a clearer explanation of how to add sfx to a project? 

Thank you

Thanks for help !

I have been working on a bit larger scale bitsy game, it currently has 22 rooms. Recently it's been glitching out randomly, tiles and sprites will spread everywhere. I tried to delete unused sprites but it doesn't seem to be fixing the problem.  Along with this sometimes variables disappear when reloading. I think this might just be because of the size of the game but it's becoming a big problem. 

Thanks!

an image of the glitch, ( happens when I exit out of the test game )

However, for now I'm having problems trying to make ramps. When I played Castle of the Water Monks by thatsmaik, I noticed at the very start they have a ramp which shows your character moving diagonally over it to reach a higher level. How is this one? I've tried using Planes and Wedges but I can't seem to find a way to do it...

Thanks in advance!

Also, I can translate Bitsy documentation (which I didn't know existed till recently :).