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bitsy

a little engine for little games, worlds, and stories · By adam le doux

The tool to save and make a new game is gone?!

A topic by emmie created May 08, 2024 Views: 326 Replies: 7
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Not sure what i did, but the tab where you can save games and make new ones is gone. also not to be seen in the tool bar when i click on it. Also the about bar is blank... I probably presed some button that made it like this, but i can't figure out how to get it back...

Room tab is also gone.. what did i do TT

Oh!! solved!!! when i go to bitsy through the itch page, it's all fine :) 

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hi emmie! glad you found a fix - do you still have the problem when you get to bitsy through https://make.bitsy.org? if so, I'd love to see a screenshot - maybe I can help figure out how to fix that :)

hiya! yes actually, it still doesn't work when i try the direct link. Here's the screenshot. As you can see the about tab is completely empty and some tools are missing in the bar above...

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hi emmie - so sorry about this problem! if you're still having the issue, I suggest clearing your browser's cache and reloading bitsy after that - I've seen that fix this issue before

important note:
before you do this, if you still have bitsy game data you want to keep, you should open your browser's JavaScript console from the bitsy page and type in the following code and then press enter:

localStorage["game_data"]

you should see a bunch of text appear in the console - this is the bitsy game data. if you copy it into a text editor (such as Notepad) and save the file with a ".bitsy" extension, you'll be able to reload your game into bitsy after resetting your browser's cache

Hi, I have the same issue :( I was creating a game and after testing it for a while it just died. Now I can't open Bitsy when I go through the page and I don't want to lose all my progress :(

to fix this you may need to reset your browsers cache - give that a try and let me know if it helps!

important note:

before you do this, if you still have bitsy game data you want to keep, you should open your browser's JavaScript console from the bitsy page and type in the following code and then press enter:

localStorage["game_data"]

you should see a bunch of text appear in the console - this is the bitsy game data. if you copy it into a text editor (such as Notepad) and save the file with a ".bitsy" extension, you'll be able to reload your game into bitsy after resetting your browser's cache