Printmaking
Printmaking in miniature for Bitsy Jam 97 - Obsolete
Print media has long moved on from the necessity of etching into metal plates and running them, over and over again, through giant manual presses, as a means of mechanically reproducing images.
Printmaking is a finicky, arcane process that can often feel more like alchemy. It is unforgiving. Failed to polish the plate to a mirror shine? Failed to degrease it thoroughly? Your delicate incisions into the rosin ground will, once removed from the mordant, be riven and corroded.
Which only makes it more astonishing when it works well, when after hours of filing and polishing and rolling on and scraping off and etching and waiting and degreasing and inking and aligning and setting pressures just right, you do eventually send your plate and paper through the press and produce something beautiful.
In this game there is little chance of error. Follow the steps as best you can to produce a cute, miniature world. Please enjoy!
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I love learning about things while playing my little computer games. Thanks for making and sharing!
wow really took me back to art school :) I loved printmaking but you reminded me of all the tedious steps I'd erased from my memory (they're worth it though)!
What a clever way to use bitsy ! It makes me want to learn and experiment this technique IRL x)
Thanks! Oh my gosh, I highly recommend it if you have access to any community-run studios, intaglio printmaking is a lot of fun!
This is amazing! I loved all of the texture variations to indicate what step we were on, and the color palette you used was perfect for this!
Thank you! I was trying to get that rose-gold kinda sheen that copper plates have - turns out that rose-gold is also just very nice to look at in itself!
wow it's just a few pixels but the way you recreate the physicality of each step is so good that I feel I might be able to do it in real life now lol!
Thank you for playing! I highly recommend printmaking, it can be frustrating, but so satisfying. (Also it’s hard not to feel a little like a mage when you’re coating plates in strange resins, wafting them over flames and dipping them in acids!)