Life Is Currency. Currency Is Life. Choose Your Future. Choose Life.

by the-nomi

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.10

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.50

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.30

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.10

you are an _anthropomorphic crypto currency_. do your very best to stay *cryptic* so that they can trust you to conduct the business. use wasd or arrow keys to move and interact.

this game was made after these articles:
>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/25/dark-web-blamed-for-rise-in-drugs-sent-by-post-from-netherlands
>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/brazil-drug-parrot-trained-as-lookout-for-dealers

I only had approx 5 hours to jam. so, I decided to learn how to use bitsy. and... ya, voila, here's, um, something.

Genres: adventure

Tools: bitsy

Comments8

Erkberg29 Apr 2019, 13:13

Pretty nice and humorous little game with good writing. Congrats on checking out bitsy AND making a game in such a short amount of time. That super obedient parrot is hilarious, the article reads a little like an april fools :)

The_Nomiauthor29 Apr 2019, 13:36

@erkberg Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed this little thing. Yeah, I think I was mostly saved by the articles hehe.

caranha29 Apr 2019, 15:15

Oh wow, this is even more crazy when I experiment it in person. Good job!

The_Nomiauthor29 Apr 2019, 17:11

@caranha Thanks! I added some stuff after we jammed at pico (originally, I was planning to have more rooms since I didn't know exactly how bitsy worked; so, I already had materials). so, it's actually a bit different from the version which I played at picotachi!

Kajetan Andrzejak29 Apr 2019, 21:36

I absolutely love this kind of art style! A pretty cool game in overall!

ditto30 Apr 2019, 09:12

i don't really know what i ended up answering the parrot tbh, i was walking around looking at the responses and suddenly the game ended? i wanted to assure him i'm not a cop !!
i dig the theme and the framing a lot. i don't think i've ever been a sneaky cryptocurrency before

The_Nomiauthor30 Apr 2019, 10:18

@ditto you probably told him that you were a cop. those things happen often irl too. (jk the pathway is too narrow and you'd trigger the ending by accident. I anticipated it but there was not much I could do about it). thanks for playing and for the nice words tho!

The_Nomiauthor30 Apr 2019, 10:22

@kajetan-andrzejak thanks! I think you could probably design a Susan Kare Macintosh computer sim with bitsy cuz it's so easy to draw simple pixel art and implement them in the game screen.