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Hi! It’s super cool that you make interactive stories for your grandchildren, it’s so sweet! 🩷 Have you thought of publishing them for other children? 👀

About ct.js, I had high hopes too, and am still proud of my work, but unfortunately ct.js never “took off”, took a good chunk of my life and it wasn’t feasible for me financially. Still, it is available, it didn’t go anywhere and can still be used.

In game engines, I myself moved to Godot. It’s almost a holy grail for me and better for game development for PC/mobile than ct.js. Or anything, really. For web development, I would recommend using smaller libraries than ct.js/pixi.js unless you intend to use heavy visuals. Or pure JS+HTML, works for Whimtale (:

No, Ultra is desktop-app-only

Btw I usually reply faster on Telegram (https://t.me/CoMiGo) and on Discord (@CoMiGo). If you write there, please write more than just “hello” so I know it’s you and not an another bot c;

I don’t think it’s directly possible with current itch.io capabilities, but I can email redeem keys to you! (So a license can be claimed by another itch account.) Will one key for one regular purchase be a good exchange?

Probably a Neutralino bug, it’s API doesn’t have anything special for exiting an app and Whimtale does project saving and other stuff regularly before that.

It would also be wonderful if one day Whimtale could support a small scripting language

I don’t want to make yet another programming language tbh 😩 And even plain JS will be hard to make as the visual language is one large state machine/VM.

Hi! I do have some plans, and even have WIPs 👀 but am currently occupied with game making 👀👀👀

Hi David, if it’s possible, could you review whether loop information for “El Grito de la Resistencia” is correct? (itch.io version) Setting loop start of 12,6s for it doesn’t result in a perfectly looped sound. I’m also not sure how end point in beats can be such a high number.

I configured Furia Iberica and Solo un Baile al Infierno as per table with just setting the loop start, so I’m confident enough that I input values into correct fields. (Godot 4)

Hi! 5 months, by gods time flies by. v1.2.0 introduces more settings for all Dialogue blocks — including icons! These can be used for character portraits or, say, showing items.

Can we expect an Android version of ctjs

No

Mysterious, very well-drawn, and the way you use text formatting to add unique flair to each character is cool! Narration or not, the prototype does feel like reading a book already, in a good way 👍

Meowmewmew meow! ^w^

Ayyy thamks for checking it out :3

Fixed redirects, try https://comigo.games/discord again

Keep working the same way!

Unfortunately this is not sustainable for me.

Releases here match the ones on Github, they’re released together.

Nooooo

But try WareWare!

Yes, of course!

Thank you for your purchase! 💚
I’ll add this feature request to the backlog — it’s totally possible technically and will be very needed for the Ultra edition, it just requires time.

This page has comments enabled?!

Someone does not know about the existence of some fetishes.

or add A and B buttons and add condition just for those

Listening for specific keyboard buttons will not be functional for mobile devices, but I was thinking about A and B buttons, too! And for some reason I didn’t think of just making two events for them. 😅 Well, now I know a simple way to implement them, thanks! lol

About other feature requests: all perfectly valid; some were already asked for by other users, and all are in my backlog now 👌

Rn I’m busy with a smaller tool (for making custom SFX, what a coincidence 👀) and updating my other engine, ct.js, but I will return to Whimtale soon with a layer of new fancy features 💪 No precise ETAs but I think I’ll start working on some in the next month.

Awesome 10/10

Thank you for your purchase 💚

Character portraits are a frequently requested feature and are in my backlog 👍 Once I’m done with my other projects’ tasks I will return for this and other features.

About doing them yourself, I don’t think it’s possible; at least, not in an extremely hacky way.

idk, because it’s not common and mostly an RPG maker tell-tale feature?

Hi! Sorry for the late reply. All Whimtale versions support importing tiles, though there is no bulk import as of now. Here’s the button to import an existing image:

Wow, this is incrrrredibly creative! It’s a wonder you made such a complex control scheme, and all these collisions on two parts of the screen.

Also I love the accidental (?) Halloween theme 🎃

Hi-i-i, here’s my hopefully not-so-aggressive insert!

Widget for those impatient:

Lore and improvements:

For the past few months I was developing Whimtale (you could previously find it under a name “Whimsy”) because Bitsy was more a burden than a tool when trying to introduce game-making to young students. As a guy who has experience in tool- and engine-making, I decided to take my own spin on Bitsy concept and… got carried away, I guess? I made a visual programming language and added more programming features that solve common requests from students like making VN dialogues and following NPCs, adding timers, etc, plus added a layer of polish to solve common complaints from others, as well as my own:

• Easier making of areas that span across multiple rooms (you can connect them by edges, with a preview, without making a heckton of exits)
• Foreground sprites that overlay characters and heroes
• Flipping sprites towards movement direction, including the hero (avatar) and actors (characters)
• Easier duplication of characters and items. (You can place any number of instances of one actor anywhere.)
• Scenario-driven manipulation of any actors, across stages or not. Turn one actor type into another, or delete them. (E.g. manipulate series of gates when flipping a switch.)
• NPC pathfinding 😲
• More customization options for text — which is a powerful narrative driver in itself. Artistic fonts, more animations, full-screen messages for larger texts.
• Better mobile support of the engine and the games it makes.
• Offline editors.

And many other things that previously required hacks or separate versions — stuff that is not beginner-friendly at all.

🖼️ Screenshots (click me to open!) 🎨

Stage editor:


Scenario editor, with branches, actor manipulation, and variable handling:

Example of an exported game:

Anyways, judging from itch.io and youtube comments, people like Whimtale! It can be a match for you, too — give it a spin! Links:

Online editor · Desktop editors · Homepage with tutorials and docs · Discord server

👻

Hi! Whimtale is exactly as you said it: a simple engine for hobbyists. If you want to make the next Hollow Knight, you have to look at other engines. Whimtale takes the concept of Bitsy games and improves on it and the Bitsy editor structure, allowing making more dynamic stories, but the scope is still limited. You can look at the bitsy tag at itch.io to see examples of this game style.

If you’re unsure, check out the online or desktop versions first, as HD and Ultra editions are based on the same core and only add stuff on top of it — meaning that programming and exporting capabilities are the same.

About Windows export, Whimtale produces only html files right now — which can be opened in any browser, but definitely is not a native steam-like experience.

Feel free to ask any other questions!

Ri-i-i-igh here: (Can be found on Props, Actors, and Hero tabs)

Oh. That’s… totally a browser issue. This is not the thing I even thought could be failing, it uses the most basic way to do tooltips here (the title HTML attribute).

A full tooltip customized by Whimtale should appear when you place it into a Scenario and hover over the placed block. And what happens with the title on Chromebook is a good reason to make custom tooltips there as well.

I’m happy to tell that today I finally release Whimtale HD and Ultra, and that Whimtale is now considered released! Whimtale is a small game engine for making stories where you can navigate the worlds you create and talk with stuff — similarly to Bitsy, but more polished and with visual scripting and many other helpful things.

About the new editions

New editions are premium versions and exist in parallel with the web editor at whimtale.app and the existing Desktop editor. Free versions aren’t going anywhere, and paid versions expand the existing functionality and also give you an opportunity to support the developer, CoMiGo. (It’s meeee!)

Whimtale HD allows for sharper visuals and adds a Proofreader module, besides adding new customization options for both the games and the editor. Remove branding and craft your unique style 💅

Whimtale Ultra lets you escape the fantasy console constraints. Define your own canvas size and transform Whimtale into your personal engine 💪

More information with screenshots and detailed description is available on the editions’ pages:

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Do you have any questions?

Then join Whimtale Discord server! It is easy to skip notifications on itch.io, but Discord where I always dwell and am ready to answer your questions.

And now it is time for me to munch on a cake! 🥳🍰

a brave search

Ew
Not like I don’t consult with AI sometimes myself, but in-search AIs are stupid and definitely lack the required context.

SADLY, I still have the Actor Scenario Blocks’ ToolTips Text being Cut-Off issue!

Busy with other stuff atm.

1. Hollow Woods: I saw the banner of this on one of your posts below (115 Days Ago). Is it an actual game you’re making?

It was before I nuked it like an idiot.

1. How do I access your default TileSet within WT?

Through the 📂 button on Hero, Actors, or Props tabs:

do I see that you slowed-down Player Movement Speed somewhat?

Nope, you’re hallucinating 😛

shouldn’t you limit the size that it can get rather than make it an infinite space?

Sounds like a bad idea to me and a strange thing to ask, to forcibly restrict the scripting area and thus the maximum amount of blocks you can manage in one actor. Especially for me after making such horrors as this “simple” battle system:

In Unreal Engine’s Blueprints language, there is an option to collapse a set of blocks into one, to preserve space and also group blocks — essentially a scenario inside a scenario. There’re also ways to declare reusable functions in a similar fashion in UE. I would like to implement something like that one day.

Thanks for that info, tho I actually meant if you could somehow make the Blocks map screen less huge?

I feel like there is a communication gap here. Blocks are sized to their content, and I can’t throw anything willy-nilly from them. I assume you are aware about zoom buttons and scroll-to-zoom/pinch-to-zoom gestures. It would be cool if you captured a video/sent photos of you using Whimtale’s Scenario editor on your device — maybe your issues come from weird UI scaling or something like that. Rn I don’t even know whether you’re using Whimtale on a PC, a tablet, or something else, and all they have settings for UI and font scaling that do affect web apps.

the Fit option actually made my Boxes so small that there was NO Text in ‘em once I’d made a fair-sized tree of code

Content of blocks gets hidden when zoomed out for performance reasons; I will experiment with large icons to visually communicate which block is which later, maybe also introduce performance settings to the scenario editor, but simply showing everything all the time does tank FPS on larger scenarios. (I added this simplification when I was working on a 100+ block scenario, and oh boy it was needed.) Current performance methods are not permanent, too; unfortunately, the devs of SvelteFlow (the framework for node-based interfaces) are not currently interested in improving their renderer, and writing one of my own will be beneficial for Whimtale and my future projects but will also take so much time that it is definitely happening after v1.0 release. Development is hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why isn’t this AMAZING Tool being touted on the Bitsy Forum […]?

Because it’s mean? 😅 But if you think it is okay, please do spread the word!

Is there a better Control Scheme? When playing WT Games in Browser or even using the Editor, the Up and Down Arrows Move the Screen instead of the Hero!

I did catch this and other issues recently and a fix for them will arrive shortly; you can use WASD, arrow keys, or on-screen controls. On touch devices you can press the screen and drag your finger for a joystick-like control. (This had its issues with accidental page refreshes tho, but I have a fix for it in the upcoming update as well.)

Is there a way for you to make the Blocks screen (fashioned after Twine’s Passages) a bit easier to manage?

You can hold Shift key to box-select several blocks or Ctrl to select/deselect them by clicking. If you meant something else, please tell me.

Why are the “?” Icons’ and Blocks’ Information CUT-OFF when you Hover Over ’em?

They’re positioned relatively to the blocks themselves, you usually can pan around so the tooltips fit.

I’ll try to make them exceed the boundaries of the scripting area, but can’t guarantee results as I’m using a 3rd-party framework for most of the scripting UI. And if the tooltip is larger than the scripting area for you, please send a screenshot.

Do you have plans to implement Hero Walking Speed (Movement) in the future?

There is actually a hidden speed limiter that I can expose; with the default values, I tried to balance keyspam prevention and being able to navigate through stages quickly enough to not be annoying. You haven’t seen the very first prototypes where the hero moved like a bullet…🤣

I’ll add it to my backlog and perhaps add a setting and blocks to dynamically tweak this currently hidden value.

Thank you SO MUCH for Making and Improving on this INCREDIBLE Tool, sir!

And thank you for sharing your thoughts and detailed suggestions!

For now, I gotta grind towards the 1.0 release 🥵 Thanks!

I’ve published a fix in v0.6.3, though for some reason Linux x64 version is processing longer than the rest. Looks like itch.io’s services have a long queue for Butler projects atm. Hopefully this will resolve by itself today.

I’ve replicated the issue on my end, will try to fix soon!

You can use the engine anywhere from a browser at https://web.whimsy.rocks