Bind Off

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.03
A bitsy poem about knitting, mistakes, and the pieces of yourself you leave in things you make. Thanks for playing!

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Comments13

funemaker
funemaker5 Oct 2020, 15:53
This was so creative in artsy, I loved it! The graphics and music were really nice too.
Josh Roby
Josh Roby5 Oct 2020, 15:54
Absolutely marvellous. Thoroughly enjoyed this!
yangying
yangying5 Oct 2020, 15:56
Great art! I love the design of this knit. But this game is really unfriendly to people with bad eyes lol.
Loig5 Oct 2020, 15:59
I very much liked the mood of this game. And the idea is quite original.

Sometimes it is quite difficult to find the mistake in a legit way, at one level I finally just tested all the possible spots.
mathemagician
mathemagician5 Oct 2020, 21:03
A nice little piece of interactive fiction, I really like the idea here. A few small quibbles though:
- it took me most of the game to realize that certain pixels would prompt monologue, instead of it just being random after so many steps or something. That could maybe be a bit more obvious?
- Related to that, since hitting any key will advance monologue as well as move, I found myself accidentally skipping text pretty frequently.

I loved the bits of story and the knit design, but I admit I did end up testing every square to find out where the "mistakes" were.
a4x8e66 Oct 2020, 21:54
The poetry and design was lovely. Some of the mistakes were hard to find, I think if they had been a little bit easier the flow would between sections would have been smoother, but thats just being picky :) I really enjoyed it
complexitydata8 Oct 2020, 04:09
This is so well-conceived and beautifully written. I love how all of it comes together -- the mechanics, the music, the visuals. Amazing work on this!
Zhanna
Zhanna9 Oct 2020, 19:09
Love the idea, visuals and music are nice as well
Virtual Turtle Studio
Virtual Turtle Studio11 Oct 2020, 07:23
That's a cool little concept you got right here. I love how the gameplay compliments the story of this old superstition, that's pretty neat (or should I say pretty knit)! I liked that it was pretty short, perfect for a jam game imo. It was also pretty hard to spot the mistakes sometimes, but also fun to track them down. I was a little confused by the speech bubble pixels as first, as I thought they were the mistakes, but then they disappeared. One minor tip: I think having the same interaction buttons (space and arrows) to skip through the text makes it so that people skip a lot of the text by accident, because they were just walking around. I definitely skipped a few by accident! Woops. Anyway, good job on this game, love the idea and execution!
Bellivit16 Oct 2020, 22:04
Very creative style! Fun game, quite hard to spot the "mistakes" sometimes. Sometimes i wished the text would not go away just because i moved, but maybe i did something wrong. Good job!
ruthiepee
ruthiepee16 Oct 2020, 22:54
I just started knitting this fall and I found this game to be a completely lovely experience. On top of the nice poem's sentiment around making mistakes, the gameplay is relaxing and fun. Though if I'm being completely honest I couldn't find the mistake in the reindeer level so I button-mashed through it. The music is so perfect too. Really creative use of Bitsy.
TheCrittersCove
TheCrittersCove19 Oct 2020, 16:50
Simple, but very endearing game. Really unique idea. It's like an interactive poem with a bit of pattern recognition. I guess the only criticism I'd have is it's so short. Would love to see more levels added.
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