Touch: Swipe in any direction to move the avatar one tile, tap to advance dialogue - confirmed genuinely working via real touch-swipe gestures independently verified against the game's own internal player-position state on three of four tested directions · Keyboard: Arrow keys to move, Enter/Z to advance dialogue and dismiss the title card
About:
A short, atmospheric Bitsy 'run poem' by Cecile Richard (haraiva), five to ten minutes long, with exceptional audience reception (4.8/5 from 1,463 ratings, #1 on itch.io's top-rated Bitsy tag). Confirmed genuinely functional on both platforms: a real held arrow key moved the avatar with a visible directional animation on desktop, and on phone, three of four real touch-swipe directions were independently verified via the game's own internal player-position state, each producing a correct tile-position change (the fourth was blocked by a wall in that specific room spot, not a control defect). The itch.io hotlink-protection beacon bundled in the exported build was identified and stripped before shipping.
Credits:
Made by A short, atmospheric Bitsy run-poem, 2023. Published here with credit to its author, who stated no licence for it.
Source code.
Phone check: 2026-09-08: confirmed real keyboard movement on desktop (held arrow key produced real movement with a visible directional sprite change) and real touch-swipe movement on phone, independently verified via the game's own internal player-position state - three of four swipe directions produced correct tile-position changes, the fourth blocked only by a wall in that room's specific layout. The itch.io hotlink-protection beacon (which redirects the page away from any non-itch.io domain) was confirmed already stripped from the shipped build before this review. No other third-party analytics found. No LICENSE file exists for the core work (credits only), shipped with licenseUnknown per standing policy for freely-published jam/hobby work; one bundled music track has an unstated but non-restrictive collaborator credit, flagged honestly in the review.
No licence stated. A short, atmospheric Bitsy run-poem published this
game without saying how it may be reused, so it is hosted here on the strength of credit alone:
their name, a link to their own release, and nothing altered but what it took to run.
If you are the author and would rather it were not here,
get in touch and it comes down the same day.
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