New font and easter-eggs


Two big changes!

First: I designed a font based on the snippets of text I made for a few lines in the poem. I liked the look of it so much that I wanted to make it as accessible as possible, so I could use it in MS Paint and Krita when designing rooms for Bitsy games. The font is available for download [here], and was made possible by BitFontMaker2.

(two quick sidebars: 1. yes the font is named "itstyBitsy" (not "itsyBitsy," like I intended). My cat was sprawled out between me and my keyboard as I typed the title, and I didn't notice the typo until about 30-45mins after I published it. By that time I had already been thoroughly charmed by my lovely kitty cat and delighted by her unexpected contribution. 2. The OG font size is 7px.)

By that point, I had a hankering for font editing,  so I buckled down and drew out my alphabet (and punctuation) once more to run it through Fontsy, a tool made by one of the masters of Bitsy, Sean S. LeBlanc. The .bitsyfont file I made (post the de-monospacing procedure I performed in Google Sheets)  is available for download from my GitHub [here].

Second: I've added an easter-egg room to expand on an idea I had when first making this game that ties it more closely to the Bitsy anniversary jam. The room doesn't really fit with the tone of the poem, so wait to look for it until after you've run through the whole poem at least once.

Thank you for playing! I'm so grateful to have an audience, no matter the size. As a wise young boy (probably) once said whilst yeeting sea stars into the surf, "it made a difference to that one."

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