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Citsy

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Makers of VGC Zero, a tiny open-source handheld for playing and making games.
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A little engine for little games — running natively on VGC Zero’s 128×128 screen.
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How to play
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  • Arrow keys or WASD move the cursor and walk.
  • Press Z for A (confirm / interact / advance dialog).
  • Press X for B (back / cancel).
  • Press C or Escape for settings from the launcher.
  • Press Escape or 2 in-game for the pause overlay (Resume / Restart / Exit).

On mobile the embedded player is hidden; use the button to open it in a new tab.

The launcher ships with Mossland and Sandbox. Drop your own .bitsy export next to the desktop binary, in a games/ folder, or on the handheld’s SD card and it appears in the same list.

Mossland running in citsy
Mossland, a bundled Bitsy adventure

About the player
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Citsy is a headless C++ reimplementation of the Bitsy engine. citsy-32blit is the 32blit host: it maps VGC Zero / desktop controls, blits the 128×128 framebuffer, and plays square-wave audio. Rooms are 16×16 tiles of 8×8 pixels — native resolution on the console.

Read the launch post: Announcing Citsy: Bitsy on VGC Zero.

Source code
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chili-chip/citsy

Bitsy game engine clone, written in modern C++

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chili-chip/citsy-32blit

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