Posted July 14, 2025 by Anna Anthropy
This old man is way too verbose! Maybe in a game with larger text boxes it would feel less overwhelming, but crammed into Bitsy's small text box it feels like a painfully slow, long interaction. Plus, his sentences don't even line up with the limits of the text box, leading to pauses at awkward places! Someone needs to teach this old man some brevity.
Your task: Punch up the old man's dialogue and make it a good fit for Bitsy's dialogue boxes. This is an exercise in both concise writing and formatting text.
For examples of punchy, well-formatted Bitsy writing, check out communistsister's Two Smudges in Infrared and caramel's You and I and the Long Long Drive.