A Little Editor for Little Poems - An Introduction to Bitsy Game Maker
With Tegan Webb
DATES: Choose either Sunday 17th July at 11am AEST or Thursday 21 July at 6.30pm AEST
Bitsy is a "little editor for little games" - a free digital tool that lets you create small, interactive narrative games/stories/poems in simple pixel art style. In this workshop, we'll teach you how to use Bitsy to create a poem that is also a world, a poem in which you can walk around, talk to people and be somewhere.
In this workshop you will:
Learn about Bitsy, the Bitsy community and it's value as a tool for poets.
Be guided through the basic mechanics of how Bitsy works - how to draw simple pixel art, write and implement interactive text, and move through the world you've built.
Make a small, self contained interactive poem that you can share with others and host online if you wish.
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection
This workshop is suitable for:
Poets of any age or experience
No coding or visual art experience is required to participate in this workshop! However, Bitsy is a internet browser based tool, so you will need access to a desktop or laptop computer and an internet connection to participate.
Ticketing:
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession ($30) to full ($40) to generous supporter ($50, i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a bit extra).
Festival pass holders receive a free ticket to ONE of our upcoming professional development workshops. If you want to book a ticket for A Little Editor for Little Poems, choose Festival Pass Holder as your ticket option in the dropdown menu.
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Tegan E Webb is a writer, zine and digital art maker. Her stories and digital experiments have been published in places such as Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review and backslash lit. She has performed at and hosted workshops for events such as the Freeplay Independent Games Festival, Emerging Writers Festival and National Young Writers Festival. She is also a library worker and is very passionate about free community driven and life-long learning. She still doesn't know how to code properly and will probably never learn.