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:thread: for <@U05UK5T7LPP>'s talk on <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81yFRBBVSQ4|Multiplayer in-browser game dev using bitsy and Automerge>.

<https://github.com/jazztap/bitsy|Repo>

looked like great fun, I am annoyed I missed it. was looking how forking can be done inside <http://itch.io|itch.io>, seems tricky. Pretty wild you can retrofit automerge to an existing app even if it does have some edge cases.

imo automerge is compatible with any MVC-ish editor written in a Javascript framework. I'd love to put it in more things. also, happy to demo multiplayer bitsy anytime.

I can fork many bitsy games off Itch by view-source on the iframe embed. so perhaps a Tampermonkey extension is within reach. not the best UX but not the worst. would love to hear your line of thinking!

yes, still learning about the edge cases. I tried it today with a 25,000 line game containing lots of <https://ruin.itch.io/pixsy|pixsy>-authored asssets, which hangs the automerge text-diff. quite understandably.

yeah from the top level <http://itch.io|itch.io> index it is a maze of isolated subdomains so you can't really figure out where the code is, within a game page it seems tractable with Tampermonkey.

its really cool bitsy, I have researched it more since you have brought it up a few times and I might intro it to my kids.