Tutorials

Bitsy tutorials are instructions & guides written by the Bitsy community to facilitate developers in the use of Bitsy's functionalities. As there are no officially-written tutorials for how to use Bitsy, the community relies on its other members for help. Often tutorials will be posted on the author's website, or as a devlog on the author's itch.io page.

A Bitsy Tutorial by Claire Morwood
One of the first "getting started" Bitsy tutorials ever written, this guide explains how to use the basic functions of Vanilla Bitsy. Includes instructions for:
 * Creating & placing drawings
 * Creating rooms & using exits*
 * Creating & using color palettes
 * Recording .gif files
 * Setting background color & export size
 * Downloading the .html of the game

Bitsy Workshop Presentation by haraiva
Part of a presentation for the NYWF, this slideshow provides a quick tutorial on how to get started with Bitsy. Includes instructions for: Tutorial also briefly mentions:
 * Creating & placing drawings
 * Creating rooms & using exits*
 * Adding dialog & using different dialog variations
 * Adding a single looping music track to your game
 * Creating & using color palettes
 * Using inventory
 * Setting background color, export size, and fonts
 * Editing the gamedata
 * Downloading the .html of the game
 * Links to more Bitsy tools & tutorials

Bitsy Pamphlet by Lenny
This tutorial is a printable one-page zine that lightly touches on some of Bitsy's basic functionalities. The main advantage with this tutorial is that it is formatted to be printed & folded into a zine which then can be easily distributed. Includes instructions for: Tutorial also briefly mentions:
 * Creating and placing drawings
 * Adding dialog
 * Creating rooms & using exits

Guía Bitsy by rumpel
One of the first and possibly only Bitsy tutorial in Spanish. Includes instructions for:
 * Changing the language of the engine
 * Creating and placing drawings
 * Creating rooms & using exits
 * Creating & using color palettes
 * Downloading the .html of the game

Bitsy Dialog Hacks Example by JackTrick
Bitsy game that provides examples of how certain "from-dialog" hacks work, and then a link to a modded version of the Bitsy Editor (v5.1) with the following hacks built-in:
 * 🖌 edit-image-from-dialog
 * 🔚 end-from-dialog
 * 🚪 exit-from-dialog
 * 📃 paragraph-break
 * Editing the current room palette from dialog
 * Adding timer functionality to any of the above hacks

Time for some Rambling about Dialog by cephalopodunk
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Full animation in Bitsy by zetef

Bitsy and Tracery by cephalopodunk

Variables

 * Bitsy Variables: A Tutorial by ayolland
 * Notes on using Variables in Bitsy by Paolo Jose Cruz
 * How to do multiple operations on Bitsy 4.2 by Saranomy
 * A thread on variables fromitch.io Bitsy forum
 * How Mogi used variables in The Bazaar: link

Advanced tutorials

 * ok wait but how'd you do that in bitsy by Sean

the robots by onion

this hot mess was made and hot glued together by onion

How It Works: holt by Sean