awesome-bitsy

A collection of tools, resources, guides, and more related to the game engine bitsy. Make pull requests here.

tools

• borksy - apply hacks to your bitsy games
• bitsy-savior - save your bitsy games without overwriting hacks
• bitsy-merge - merge multiple games (great for collabs!)
• bitsy-optimizer - remove duplicate and unused data
• pixsy - turn images into a bitsy room
• tilesy - turn images into bitsy tiles
• Fontsy - convert images to bitsy fonts
• palettsy - generate bitsy palettes
• Shiftsy - shift everything in a room, for when you miscalculate
• bitsy room converter - convert images to bitsy rooms and make animated rooms (it can be finicky, so be sure to read all the directions)

extensions / hacks

• bitsy-hacks - the defacto standard collection of bitsy hacks
• Bitsy Museum Hack - combine multiple bitsies!
• Multi-Bitsy - a tool to make an HTML page with multiple bitsy games controlled simultaneously

graphical resources

• custom bitsy fonts - a great collection of fonts for bitsy
• alphabet tiles - the alphabet as copy & pastable tiles
• bitsy dungeon tiles - build your own bitsy dungeon
• Balsamy font - a thin font
• Brightlinger font - medieval font
• Alcuin font - old timey handwritten font
• Micro Roguelike - collection of 8x8 1-bit tiles intended for a roguelike game
• mrmotext - a collection of 8x8 tiles (not directly bitsy related, costs $5)
• 8px - 8x8 1-bit textures, sprites, and shapes
• 1-Bit 8x8 Tileset - 8x8 1-bit tiles intended for game engines like bitsy
• Nothin’ Fancy Tileset - a lovely set of general purpose bitsy tiles

You might find more by browsing 1-bit assets on itch.io.

guides

• A Bitsy Tutorial - the classic bitsy tutorial
• Bitsy 6 Tutorial - youtube tutorials, though some bits are outdated
• bitsy cheatsheet - a collection of dialogue scripting reminders
• how to play a bitsy game - great for non-gamers (it’s also very cute)

bitsy forks & alternatives

• Bitsy for Me - a bitsy fork with art utilities and a few hacks built-in
• multicolor bitsy - bitsy with as many colours as you like
• bitsy-x2 - bitsy with 16x16 tiles
• bitsy-3d - bitsy in… 3d?
• mosi - a bitsy-like with built-in audio, bigger palettes, extended scripting, and more
• bipsi - a clone of bitsy with some different scripting

miscellaneous

• bitsybox - run bitsy games outside of a browser
• article on bitsy from The Verge - titled “Bitsy is the small video game engine with a big community”