A custom script for {get-palette-in-room} could just be:
return game.currentPaletteIndex;
I believe. It needs to be javascript in there and the 'return' is there as that's what a javascript function sends back. It does send back the index though, so if it's the first palette it will send back 0, the second will send back 1, etc.
The two main objects that hold information in Môsi seems to be 'game' and 'context.' If I look at the 'context' one, I believe the following should return the color of the sprite:
Really enjoyed the overall presentation of this. The intro is so clever, and I don't think I've seen another Bitsy / Bipsi / Mosi game do that. Very cinematic!
Loved all the animations of Walter moving independently . Such a nice way to give him a life of his own.
Really enjoyed this! I think the setting is really strong. I was definitely interested in seeing more of it, so am interested in you saying it's a 'sort of' prequel.
I also think the general concept of how you "avoid the plague" is a really interesting mechanic. I think there's so much cool stuff with that. Certainly makes you rethink just blundering around the town as well.
I also really liked how you used the map for travelling, and the colours of the final area too.
I've really enjoyed using Môsi, it's the first game engine I've really stuck with. Thank you for your hard work on it. I definitely want to keep experimenting with the custom script feature. I'm sure there's lots of powerful things that you can do with it.
Just wanted to post in here in case anyone was interested. I was playing around with the 'Custom Scripts' function in Mosi and figured out a way to use the Mouse inside of Mosi. It all seems to work quite well, surprisingly. If anyone wants to check it out or ask me how it works, you can view it here: https://danwinters.itch.io/mosi-mouse-controls
I don't think you can write a script on the avatar, though you can do something similar if you attach a script to the floor that they're walking over constantly. I did something similar with my game here: https://danwinters.itch.io/heal
Essentially, the floor script had variables that kept the X and Y variables of the avatar generated with {avatar-x} and {avatar-y}. I would then check that variable on the next floor tile against the new values of {avatar-x} and {avatar-y}. For instance, if the previous X variable was 3 and the current {avatar-x} variable is a 4, then I know the avatar has moved right. If it's 4 to 3, then they've moved left. Same thing with the Y variables also.
You can change colors and music, using this like: {set-sprite-color 2} and {set-music room-1-2 song-2} . The documentation for those are here: https://github.com/zenzoa/mosi/wiki/Scripts
As for a cycle / loop, I'm not sure there's an easy way around it I'm afraid. It might be possible to do something via 'Custom Scripts' though I'm not sure.
Ah, interesting. I'll have a play around and see if I can find what caused it. As I'm asking it to do something it's not really meant to, there are weird outcomes sometimes. Thanks for letting me know.
I did assume others have done the same hack, though I can't really see them at the minute. I could have swore Borksy had it, though I can't see it.
Interestingly, I was playing one of my old favourite Bitsy games today, and was surprised to see that had mouse movement: https://linda-nd.itch.io/day-in-the-life
Looking at the Bitsy changelog you can see Adam talk about it at version 3.6 : "bugfix: remove broken mouse controls." Maybe it was causing more trouble than it was worth. Recreating it to how it was would probably be a lot of work, but doing something similar to my simpler method might be cool. I wrote a little devlog about it if you want to understand it a bit more.
Really beautifully presented, from the colours to the train.
I was interested in the plugins you used, if you wanted to talk about them. Bipsi has always intrigued me, but I've never quite gotten to grips with it. I'm assuming getting the text be so central and stylised was done via them?
The 'Staring into the Mirror' step is not Mosi functionality no. I coded it up myself with some javascript and was pleasantly surprised by how it all worked out. It wasn't too hard and can be copied easily, if you fancy giving it a go.
I was thinking about making a game as a 'tutorial' for how to do it, as that functionality might open up a lot of other gameplay ideas for others. I've been looking into how to do it in Bitsy and, while it's a little more complicated, I think I can probably do it there too.
Sorry about having to restart. Do you remember how you got stuck in the mirror, by any chance?
Sorry, forgot to say thank you for this back then!
I'm actually revisiting this page, as I think I will be taking this code and putting it into a new project. It was nice replaying this game. I'm really happy with how it came out.
Thanks for the feedback! And for keeping Bitsy and the Bitsy jams going. Bitsy / Mosi was the first game engine I've really stuck with, so you have my gratitude.
This is incredible, honestly. Beautiful artwork, interesting little puzzles, some great humour. Even just the turning of the phone is so simple, yet so clever.
This was great! Really enjoyed this. I agree with Raven, the choice of colours was very strong. The jumping to different tracks at the screen shake was a fun gameplay idea too.
What a sweet game. I was very impressed you to took into account all the different routes you could take. I don't think I saw any text that looked out of place, and I enjoyed them adding context and guidance to the other routes.
There were a lot of really nice bits of writing, particularly watching the horror movie in the bar. That certainly resonated with me and felt quite real :)
Very sweet! I thought the writing was very cute. Just a nice, wholesome game.
It probably wasn't the vibe you were going for, but I did wonder if it'd be funny to have different dialogue at the end for the pieces you viewed. Or in my case on the second run, not seeing anything :)
I was interested in how it all worked, so I copied the code from the HTML into Bitsy and saw the sheer size of some of those dialogue options. It was lagging for me as well just opening it, so have no idea how you managed to keep it all together and working smoothly :)
In hindsight, I think I was focused on the refugee quest due to them sadly coming in the news so often recently. I have a Ukrainian friend here in the UK who brought her family over last year, and I've been watching the news about Palestine recently also. It's been on my mind a lot, and the idea of those kind of people just trying to survive in a peace-time space for art, with art pieces depicting people just like them, was a powerful one to me.
Ultimately though, it was a game jam with limited time and think you should be really proud of the randomisation aspects. I think the quests are more of an 'icing on the top' really. I had been wondering if the game was related to how you experienced the war, as I had played your other games set in Ukraine around then. Thank you for sharing that.
Beautiful art work, again! I'm always jealous playing your games as everything fits together so neatly.
I read through the posts with Mandy and agree with you in regards to randomisation vs the plots in the game. I was very intrigued by the refugees quest, and particularly the concept of people suffering right next to art inspired by that suffering (and critics still being more interested in the art), and to be honest I was a little disappointed there wasn't a 'bigger' thematic resolution to it.
HOWEVER, the randomisation aspect did feel the main aspect of this game and it's superb. The fact that this game works so smoothly with how much is in it incredibly impressive. You definitely nailed that feeling of walking around an endless, confusing art space. All while still in vanilla Bitsy!? Great work.
My initial plan was to go from human, to Giraffe and then to T-Rex, but I ran out of time. And with how long it took you and others to make the giraffe, maybe it was a good thing :)
I didn't even think about restarting the room from fresh, but that makes sense. And yes, after finishing it I did realise you would be unable to reset the ones in the middle annoyingly. For some reason I thought I needed to have the sprites where you place the bones be 'walls', but I have just turned them into regular sprites now and it seems to work fine. At some point though, I would quite like to make a 'undo' button though I think it might be quite a coding challenge.
And yeah, Mosi doesn't seem to have a 'Game Restart' option like Bitsy does, which is one of the very few complaints I have of it. I would have to code it to reset all the sprites manually, I think, which was too much of a faff to bother with at the time.
Thank you for the feedback! I was planning on just moving onto the next game, though with everyone commenting I feel like I should keep adding to it. I saw you made something for Bitsy Fest too and will play it soon!
Thank you for writing this up, and thank you for the kind words about my game! There was a few rough edges to it that I didn't have time to smooth out, but overall I was really happy with it and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I agree that it has been a great jam. It's produced an incredible showcase for what Bitsy can do. Some of the sprite work was gorgeous, lots of the writing was very touching. Thank you to everyone who produced something!
Thank you for this. I've started my own therapy recently and a lot of this resonated with me. It really is hard work sometimes, isn't it. You'd think you'd just want to be happy.
I'm glad Bitsy has matured enough to get to it's weird art game phase too. I appreciated the little 'anti-gameplay' bits and how they told their stories. Some of the text effects you managed to create are incredible.
Love the art direction for this. The colours really compliment each other and everything looks very charming. The rounded edges are a really nice touch too.
