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bitsy

a little engine for little games, worlds, and stories · By adam le doux

What happened to the Bitsy editor?

A topic by IwonK created 9 days ago Views: 118 Replies: 7
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I was about to finish my game today, I saved the game data and I refreshed the page in my browser and then I noticed that some tabs are missing, including the one for importing/exporting the files :( the room window is blank and the "about" window too. 

I thought that maybe there was something wrong with my browser but it happens every time I upload my game to Bitsy on any browser. I also tried this on another computer and it keeps happening :( 

The only tabs I get are:

- about (blank window)

- room (blank window)

- exits and endings 

- paint

- colors

- dialog

- find

- inventory

- record gif (doesn't work, blank window)


Help, anybody <:( 

Hmmmm, maybe you simply closed the tab. You can open a tab by going to tools on the top right and the tab to export a project is called "game"

I just refreshed the page. This is all I get :(

hmmm, maybe I can try, what's the game data you got ? I will copy and paste it to my bitsy.

but by the way, how do you import your game data to a browser without the game tab ?

usually I copy/paste the game data from the "game data" window to my notepad file. Now that the game tab is gone, there is nothing I can do in Bitsy itself :( 

sorry I got distracted, but I can copy and paste your game data to my bitsy and see how it goes

I think I found a temporary solution but it's a bit tricky.

If your Bitsy does what mine has done and you want to work on your game, open an incognito window in your browser and run Bitsy in there. It will load the default game and now you can load your own game and work on it as normal. 

Here is the tricky part: because it's an incognito window, if you close it, it will erase your game. Make sure that you save often :) 

I'm not sure what borked my Bitsy. There must have been something wrong with my game itself. When I ran Bitsy in the incognito window, I copied and pasted fragments of my game data from the borked file (like: first the colors, then the rooms, tiles, and so on) and it turned out there was something wrong with my rooms. As I look at the code, they seem fine but whenever I copied them to the engine, everthing went nuts. I'm not sure but I think I remember copying and pasting code from one room to another before it all happened, so maybe that was my mistake :P