The colors, the music, the little world I wish I could keep exploring forever - welcome, to the CSNZ
A gentle space opera along the lines of the Ancillary series, told with a brilliant combination of Bitsy, Twine, and Flicksy.
It generates dungeons! They fit on a single sheet of paper! What more could you need?
Spacelord is the most fabulous, glorious, and intergalactic cat there is - beautiful use of shape and color
The UI in this game instantly brought back all the memories of using instant messaging, and negotiating emotions and relationships within an online fan community - and in that setting it tells a powerful story about gender, friendship, toxicity, being a teen trapped by parents and expectations, and an aptly named tamagothi-clone called “egg friend”
A cute musical moss simulator, made using bitsy + hacks - what more could you ask for?
A super dense one-room bitsy games, full of inside jokes and references to bitsyfolk. But maybe my favorite part of it is the use of in-dialog sprites to create faces alongside the text!
A minimalist roguelike
Medieval manuscripts, giant snails, exciting chase scenes, puns, relationship drama... this game has it all and more!
Lovely tale of daily routine and missing someone far away. Plus some *fantastic* low-fi user interfaces.
Fantastic kid-noir mystery/adventure game! I wish there were a whole series of these.
A short, lovely stroll with crisp, clean pixel art and some clever use of transitions and changes of perspective. (Also a great use of the itch.io page theme to create a nice frame for the game!)
This is very cathartic. Money may not be able to buy happiness directly, but it can go a long way to creating the conditions for justice, equity, freedom, and joy. So go spend all of Jeff Bezos' money on these good things.
A spooky, creeping atmosphere in an otherwise cozy town and a pleasing time-progression mechanic, with many excellent small details. Reminds me of Welcome to Night Vale in the best ways.
One of my favorite space whale concepts, and some beautiful art to boot.
Feels like Legend of Zelda, with a devilishly engaging game loop, delightful puzzles, and quirky characters realized in just a handful of words of dialog and a few frames of animation.
Beautiful hand-drawn art, straightforward gameplay, a simple but evocative world full of implications that make it feel huge and mysterious even when it only takes a few minutes to play. Also the UI design is fantastic - especially the way speech bubbles and interaction works.
A gentle game about helping alien civilizations develop. It's a tech tree with a story. As civilizations rise, you get attached to their successes and habits; and when they ultimately fall, you mourn what they would have accomplished with the knowledge they've been given.
Quiet and contemplative. The music adds a lot to this simple game.