bitsy is a kool tool for making web games.

the most striking things about bitsy are extreme limitations - the tile size, the map size, the frame count are all fixed and very small. there are only 3 colours in any one scene. the game world is totally static besides the animation cycles and the player moving around and between screens

that’s what makes bitsy great though. it feels like exactly the parts of rpgmaker i want: i can draw my own graphics and build worlds out of them, populate them with little characters who have something to say

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edscii is a kool tool for drawing pictures using coloured text

this is a great medium to work in. your hand is forced into a more abstract representation for things, and it’s really fun to draw that way; you’re only afforded so much detail and it’s interesting to play around with what you can suggest by putting the different symbols together

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bosca ceoil is a kool tool for making music

this is a really great tool for playing around with melodies - you kinda just paint the notes and listen to what they sound like right off the bat. it also has a way to isolate notes of particular keys (groupings of notes that can be played nicely together) so you can compose music in them without remembering which notes you shouldn’t be using. without that i find it’s pretty hard to really experiment and understand what effect key changes really have (since there’s so much friction in actually trying to follow one by hand

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rpg maker is a kool tool for creating role playing games

i got started with game making in rpgmaker and it was immediately apparent it had a lot of potential to make games i was interested in making. more accurately, it was clearly a good tool for building worlds.

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puzzlescript is a kool web tool for making kool web games. the most interesting thing about it is that it uses a rules based approach to scripting, rather than step by step instruction - like find and replace rules for the game state. it’s an interesting way to describe a game, and very convenient for certain types of puzzle games (drawing on the creator’s experience making english country tune, no doubt)

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lsdj is a kool tool for making music. it’s made for the original gameboy, and while you can get it on an actual cartridge, it works on an emulator too - which is much easier to obtain. these days i run it on a gameboy emulator for my nintendo ds, which is almost like having it on a real gameboy

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when i have time i will fill this in with stuff. watch this space right

artist: jonathan brodsky