Trying Bitsy Games, I tried Playing Onion Farm. My first very impression of this game was it looked so simple as it is a pixilated games. I like the pastel colors that the game uses. The game has bubble thoughts to engage with the player and tell them what to do. The only commands I can do in the game was go up, down, right, and left. There were only two places in the game which were the character's house and their small onion farm in front of the house. I started playing by picking these bubble thoughts inside the house to guide me to what to do. Then I went outside of the house and I saw the 6 onion beds in the front yard. I wasn't sure how to interact and grow my onions. I then walked on the bads and it turned out that's how I interact with preparing and plant the onions. I was able to see a result once I walked on the beds, Their color changed. Once it was time to harvest the onions, again I only walked on the beds to harvest them. The character was saying Onion for multiple times being happy harvesting onions. The game ended since it reached its goal. It was a very simple direct game and it was fun playing it for a few minutes.
The other game I tried playing was "I hurt myself." This game was also simple and direct. It even says under the game's description "a 30-second Bitsy vignette." Initially, it looked like a maze game that I needed to get from side A to side B. This game also started by showing a bubble thought shaped like a box describing the game. The commands and movement of the character is similar to the first game which only goes up, down, right, and left. The first thing I had to do in the game was to get to the other side of this pink maze surrounded by pixilated blood that if I touch, the game tells me to hang in their and not be suicidal. Once I got to the other side, now I'm outside in the forest surrounded by trees. My character looks like a bunch of red floating dots which I'm assuming is a blood cell or some thing related to blood. I had to walk to the right towards a red knife. Playing this game I didn't feel comfortable because of the dark way this game engages with the player telling some things are related to suicide.
Dania Alluhaidan