mark johns’s standard bits was apparently developed for kokoromi’s gamma 256 event (alongside jiji’s wonderful dive and jason rohrer’s much-celebrated passage), but for some reason it’s taken me this long to discover it. the concept behind gamma 256 is low-res game design; standard bits is a game about pixels. plenty of games USE pixels; standard bits is about them.

it evokes adventure on the vcs and probably a thousand other things just by its nature.