{"id":240,"date":"2025-08-25T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:09:23","slug":"exercise-micro-city-with-bitsy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/exercise-micro-city-with-bitsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise: Micro city with Bitsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-25-095831.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-242\" src=\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-25-095831.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-25-095831.png 900w, https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-25-095831-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-25-095831-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-25-095831-768x763.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 85vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make a short Bitsy or <a href=\"https:\/\/ripriprip.itch.io\/wareware\">wareware<\/a> game inspired by 0ne of the invisible cities you have read.<br \/>\nThe challenge\/question of this prototype is: If the city was a bitsy game how would it look and play like? Bitsy game as: a simple environment with an avatar &#8220;rooms&#8221;, characters, dialogues and objects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some brainstorming questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Avatar: if &#8220;you&#8221; were in the city, who would you be? (visitor, resident, worker, etc&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rooms: What would be the spatial layout of the city? (neighborhoods, landmarks, infrastructure&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Characters: Who would live in the city?\u00a0 (how would they speak, how would they look, would they have groups, class differences, desires etc)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Objects: given what established above, what would be some objects to use, collect, examine?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Go through the <a href=\"https:\/\/mycours.es\/digitalmedia\/bitsy\/\">Bitsy resources<\/a> first<br \/>\n-Don&#8217;t spend too much time on graphics, this is a narrative and level design prototype<br \/>\n-It must have elements of exploration and non-linearity<br \/>\n-Make sure to have at least 3 &#8220;rooms&#8221; 3 NPC and 3 objects<br \/>\n-Find a soundtrack to play during the playthrough that can set the mood. It can be just a separate youtube video on loop.<br \/>\n-Complete it as an assignment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delivery<\/strong><br \/>\nUpload the html to discord<\/p>\n<p>Before we start let\u2019s do a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/brainstorming-narrative-design\/\">narrative design brainstorm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make a short Bitsy or wareware game inspired by 0ne of the invisible cities you have read. The challenge\/question of this prototype is: If the city was a bitsy game how would it look and play like? Bitsy game as: a simple environment with an avatar &#8220;rooms&#8221;, characters, dialogues and objects. Some brainstorming questions: &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/exercise-micro-city-with-bitsy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exercise: Micro city with Bitsy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-240","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/interactivity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}