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.

Introductions to Bitsy[]

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:

Creating & placing drawings
Creating rooms & using exits*
Adding dialog & using different dialog variations
Adding a single looping music track to your game

Tutorial also briefly mentions:

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:

Creating and placing drawings
Adding dialog

Tutorial also briefly mentions:

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

Tutorials about specific functions[]

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: