Bitboy - A Game about Subverting Expectations and Embracing Meta

Bitboy is a little infinite runner about jumping through windows, sliding under barrels, and stopping a meteor from hitting!

Or at least that's what it has pretended to be for the past two weeks. Spoilers down below. If you havent checked it out yet, please do! I've been going through the comments and reviewing the games of people who've looked at it.

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Bitboy is, in reality, a meta narrative game about trying to prevent the end of a world that uses browser refreshing as a mechanic to progress the game's story.

It has been great to see the response to the game, either from those who discover the game's little secret, or from those who haven't. Some people have wondered how the game managed to pull off some of the things it does, and I'll be putting out posts the next few days describing how those aspects of the game work. It'll be fun to share the process.

If you made it to the end of this post, thank you for reading. Until next time, stay curious.