you can draw things in the paint panel, then place them in your world in the room panel. you can write dialog for your characters (aka sprites) too. you can also animate your drawings if you want to!

some words:

• room - a place in your game world
• avatar - the player's character
• tile - a piece of the scenery
• sprite - interactive characters or things

to try your game, switch the room to play mode:

• walk around with the arrow keys
• talk to sprites by walking up to them

you can make multiple rooms, but make sure you add some exits to connect them to each other!

use "share game" to download the game as an html file. you can email the file to a friend, or host it online!

if you want to talk about bitsy, report a bug, or share a game you made, i'm on twitter @adamledoux or you can post in the community forum

special thanks to:

• mary-margaret
• seattle game meetup folks
• everyone in the bitsy community!

v6.3:
- all resources are packaged locally to avoid cross-origin errors
-- you can download bitsy games from local copies of bitsy!
- exit tool resets when you delete a room
- invalid exits don't break the editor
- downloaded games pass w3c validation test
- download panel is sized correctly on chrome
- you can drag tool panels past the rightmost tool
- paint explorer updates when you paste new game data in
-- also it selects valid sprites when you change game data
- inventory UI resets when game restarts

v6.2:
- duplicate and delete palettes in the color tool!
- bugfixes:
-- >= and <= work correctly again
-- drawing colors update when you use the color picker
-- animations stay in time with each other when you change them
-- rooms without a defined palette don't break the game
-- deleting all palettes from game data won't break the game

v6.1:
- editor is more mobile-friendly:
-- new portrait mode layout
-- enabled touch controls for room and paint tools
-- font sizes for high dpi displays
- bugs:
-- fixed bug where you can't remove sprites from rooms
-- fixed crashes when there are no rooms
-- fixed html import bug
- improved rendering performance in chrome

6.0:
- new combined exits & endings tool!
- exits are two-way by default
- change exit direction with one button
- new exit transition animations!
- exit thumbnails are shortcut to rooms
- toggle exits & endings visibility
- move exits & endings in room without tool open
- move exits & endings in two ways:
-- click and drag in the room
-- OR use the "move" button
- updated translations for several languages

subject dialog list list call_split conditional

color 1 color 2 color 3 wavy shaky rainbow

Small font limited to ASCII, which includes English characters and some symbols.

Small font with some unicode support. Includes characters for most European languages.

Large font with more unicode support. Includes characters for all European languages.

Large font which includes characters for Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Pixel font with Arabic characters

Upload your own custom font in the ".bitsyfont" format!
file_upload upload font

file_download download font

text direction: Left to Right Right to Left

Option for languages that read right to left