These are the Humanities of the Adamant Gambit

January 8, 2022 6:31 PM

The Adamant Gambit is a collaborative series of ten short browser adventure games set on board a generation ship over the course of a millennium. Tips after the jump.

Try talking to people and interacting with things multiple times, and when new knowledge is gained or circumstances change (bitsy's come a long way, and has plenty of forks, too, as you'll soon find out). Also, just because something isn't colored differently doesn't mean you can't interact with it.

If the keyboard does nothing, try clicking. There's multiple games where you need to click an X, not type it.

When skipping through dialogue, don't skip too quickly or you may accidentally select a dialogue option.

posted by BiggerJ (3 comments total)

These are a bit too simple for my taste, but I like the basic idea behind Bitsy – a point-and-click platform for creating simple, browser-based games.

Are there similar tools that are a bit more capable? I know about things like RPG Maker and GameMaker Studio. I guess I'm hoping to find something in between.

(I've often had the notion to make a simple game, for kicks – but I code all day for my day job, and creating something with RPG Maker, etc. would be too much of a project. I just want to putz around.)
posted by escape from the potato planet at 4:32 AM on January 9, 2022 [2 favorites]

I loved all of this. Sweet and kind and mysterious and human. Just lovely.
posted by Nossidge at 5:37 AM on January 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

escape from the potato planet: You might like PuzzleScript (and its first-person fork, DungeonScript). It's made for puzzle games, but perfectly capable of adventure games (it has an action button).
posted by BiggerJ at 2:57 PM on January 9, 2022 [2 favorites]