Lorenzo Pilia

Lorenzo Pilia lorenzo.pilia.it @LorenzoPilia

Producer at Maschinen-Mensch, currently working on Curious Expedition 2. Outreach Manager for Codecks, a project management tool for game developers, made by game developers. Programme manager for A MAZE. / Berlin festival from 2014 to 2019. Founder of BerlinGameScene.com (see itch.io profile). Organiser of events such as Talk & Play, Join – Local Multiplayer Summit, Civic Game Jam. Currently in love with Bitsy: check out my itch.io collections and follow @bitsypcs on Twitter.

Also a member of the Saftladen indie game collective and shared working space — come and say hello if you're visiting Berlin.

On Small Games

A collection of thoughts by other people

Lorenzo Pilia

NOMIRACLE

Consult the Nomi Oracle!

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Now hear this.

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WarioWare Microgame

Bitsy Carpets

I've been noticing that many Bitsy pieces feature carpets/rugs, so I've decided to start collecting them. Send me your suggestions ! For regular updates on Bitsy releases, make sure to follow @bitsypcs on Twitter. My other Bitsy collections...

What's for breakfast!?

Two cowboys trying to decide what to have for breakfast.

Wade!

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Aesthetic Pasta

Eat your Aestethic Pasta, made for Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ Horror Game Jam

hrschkfr

Interactive Fiction

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An Adventure Tail

Save the Mouse Kingdom

Blind Marksman

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1998

It's the late 90s, and you are trying to pick a few songs for a very special friend.

Berrak

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Interlibrary Loan Sharks

Tidy up books! Do a heist! Endure office gossip! Attend a circus!

fortwas

Adventure

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investigate

a lighthouse full of secrets, made in bitsy

caeth

Puzzle

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Tokens of the past

traditions are peer pressure from dead people.

enui

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Where in the world is kitty cat?

Kitty cat is lost! Help fluffy cat find him!

rumpel

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Pink Mansion

A small pink puzzle made in Bitsy

Emma Dee

Puzzle

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ephemera of evalynn cott

it's the end of the semester at art school and you're hella late turning in your assignments!

attempting entertainment

Adventure

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minimalist

a short game about objects

ruin

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Indoor Cat

Whiskers is home alone, again.

Peter Februar

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Bitsy Mystery Dungeon

A randomised mega-collaboration by the Bitsy Discord

ducklingsmith

Adventure

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A Night in that Horrible House at the End of the Lane

ModernModron

Interactive Fiction

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The Bitsy Jim Jam

A virtual sleepover with the Bitsy community!

Ebeth

Simulation

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Ghost Stories

This year it's your turn to listen to their tales.

Emma Conner

Interactive Fiction

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Before Midnight

An entry for #bitsyjam January 2018

ducklingsmith

Interactive Fiction

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No Clue

it just doesn't make sense!

Peter Februar

Puzzle

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oh no, u have to make a game

A game about accomplishment via procrastination.

squali

Role Playing

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a dream of fire

a short dream about the flame in your chest created for the Bitsy Secret Santa

ModernModron

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Flicker's Fearsome Fragrances

A very unusual candle shop...

qazlal

Interactive Fiction

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Bitsy Faves pt.2 (2019–2022)

These are of my favourite pieces created using Adam Le Doux's Bitsy editor (freely available at https://ledoux.itch.io/bitsy ). I'm mostly selecting projects that are using Bitsy in new, different ways – it's very exciting to see what the...

do you think ducks in the pond care about global finance

quack

Stanwixbuster

Interactive Fiction

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Deacon Blues

A vignette based on a song.

ultrabrilliant

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Spring in Lviv during the war

Based on real events.

Valeriy Petrov

Adventure

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GIF

What's up in a Kharkiv bomb shelter

Dahuanna

Interactive Fiction

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Commute

A love letter to a public transit system I haven't used in years.

thisisstar

Interactive Fiction

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Mistakes

Once, I ran away with a raven

thisisstar

Interactive Fiction

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Gray

When you ditch the dye and let your hair go gray

silverhair

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TAIPEI METRO QUEST

a narrative game about time-traveling home

hellodri

Interactive Fiction

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out of bounds

sometimes volleyball can take you places

visibleworld

Interactive Fiction

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cloud watching

a brief interlude

bignastytruck (violet)

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My Dream Job: How I Survived Job Hunting in Animation

A bitsy game about career choices, heartache, and perseverance.

BubblyOasis

Visual Novel

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R I D E

Bitsy Infinite Runner

dakinand

Racing

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Roadside Recollection.

For the School of Machines, Making and Make Believe course 'Getting Personal'. A game about breakfast.

Adoné

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Entity

A tiny sci-fi horror game.

ultrabrilliant

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I Don't Know How to Have Hotpot Alone

A hearty meal with a bitter-sweet childhood memory

nuttatulipa

Role Playing

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GIF

Three Haiku

A little game on haiku

GiuliaC

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bitsy painter!

jakeyouh

Rhythm

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Ekphrasis: a game about looking at things

martha hipley

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A Virtual Chain of Solidarity

Stand with SZFE and help us get the university's demands to the Hungarian Pariament.

Educational

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Dead Metheny....

A stream of consciousness experience about a classic album

Meadow Faust

Interactive Fiction

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candle wax

a short game poem about candle wax and fire.

bignastytruck (violet)

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Bitsy Faves pt.1 (2017–2018)

Drag Night

My first time visiting a Drag Show in Berlin.

Flo

Interactive Fiction

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Tutorial

A Bitsy Tutorial / A Bitsy love letter

Claire Morwood

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noctiluca

A Bitsy vignette about glow worm spotting in Hertfordshire.

deerful

Interactive Fiction

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The Crying Game

A computer-generated poem about crying

sophie mallinson

Simulation

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Vitreous

A short surreal horror game about the things that might exist beneath the kelp.

Breogán Hackett

Adventure

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Space Bubble Cat

A lonely cat in space.

Emma Dee

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going by train to the human palace

Pokémon, but as a dystopian, gooey Bitsy roadtrip

spiders

Adventure

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GIF

no destination

a purgatory of forlorn memories

mark wonnacott

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The Secret of the Secret Room

Linda_ND

Adventure

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Good Morning, Radio

The morning shift at a student radio station

Adam Le Doux

Adventure

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Everything Must Fall

A sideways look at nineteenth-century Britain.

halkon

Adventure

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Pauper's Bride (And Gun)

Chekhov's Gun appears in the first act. Will it go off by the third act?

neven

Adventure

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the last days of our castle

on the precipice of a reckoning

mark wonnacott

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le pi dop te ra

An old textbook about moths.

Becklespinax

Visual Novel

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R.E.M. -scape

A game based on short snippets of dreams I've had.

Linda_ND

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Alabaster

A spooky Bitsy made for Splash Jam

Pierrec

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Tome full of stars

One night the stars disappeared from the sky. A thief attempts to steal the tome that will bring them back.

Adam Dixon

Adventure

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Zen Garden, Portland, The Day Before My Wedding

Tiny Bitsy Autobiographical Pixel Doodle

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depreston

you said we should look out further

Vaida

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Limbo Train

Time and space to think

Claire Morwood

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Small is Beautiful

Non-Bitsy games that take 30 minutes or less to play. Most of them run directly in the browser. For those requiring an installation, I recommend using the Itch app . For short small games made in Bitsy, check out my Bitsy Faves collections.

Queers in Love at the End of the World

fellas, is it gay to make out in the ashes of capitalism?

anna anthropy

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It ain't over till the fat lady sings

An interactive short

timgarbos

Interactive Fiction

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The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place

A short story about a municipal building eater.