THE TOWER

It was a while that I was looking for a tool to make videogame that worked on mobile. Both because I don’t have a personal computer anymore and also because I want to play and make games on the go. I use a computer everyday for work so, I don’t want to use one for fun.

Years ago I spent lot of time on RPG Maker, but never got to finish a game. I loved making tilesets and map, but simply never got to finish any game because I was always starting new projects.

It has been love at first sight with bitsy. I met it the first time  the 1st of April 2023, 5 days later “the tower” was complete and online.

Tower of Gargax is the game that made me discover bitsy and I loved its structure with shortcuts and based on discovering hints. That structure give the chance to build a bigger game even without the chance to save game progress.

My idea was to make a game where you start next to the “last maze” and, you had to make some exploration, to gets all the hints to get to the end.  I haven’t planned everything, I just started from the “village map” then I went with the flow.  This is the reason why some details are way more contemporary than others.

There are very little dialogs, that’s because my main fun is in drawing maps and try to create suggestive panorama with the 1-bit graphic that charatherize bitsy.  

I really enjoyed making it, and playing it several times to test it.

Bye,

Zeno.