Working in One Bit

Re:Working in One Bit by noobermin on Saturday August 21, 2021 @07:46PM (#28261641)

Kind of an aside, but one of my issues with these games (1bit, other "retro" style games across itch.io) is they function more like art pieces (demos, I guess) than actually fun and interesting games. No shade to those who make these, kudos and have fun, but apart from a few games I can count on one hand (like undertale for example) pull off the retro style and are actually fun.

Like I've yet to play an actually fun pico8 game, apart from the minigame in Celeste, for example, although that's literally celeste...in 8-bit.

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Re:Working in One Bit by mysterydip on Saturday August 21, 2021 @08:39PM (#28261914)

Have you tried the return of the obra dinn mentioned in the post? I read lots of good reviews on it.

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Re:Working in One Bit by routerl on Saturday August 21, 2021 @10:09PM (#28262277)

I can't recommend Obra Dinn enough. It's a one and done game, but the experience is pristinely polished. There's nothing else like it, and it proves that Lucas Pope means it when he says he uses the limitations of the art style as a way to improve the work.

I play it about once a year, having forgotten a few of the details of the story/gameplay each time, and really wish I could neuralyze myself to play it again for the first time.

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Re:Working in One Bit by ido on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:42AM (#28263203)

Have you tried the author's game Obra Dinn? It's very much not just a demo: https://obradinn.com/

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