History VideoGame / BitBuddy

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of "caretaker" and "VirtualPet" video games like ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}''. Having a cute digital creature to take care of is fun - for the one doing the caretaking. From the point of view of the creature, they're completely at your mercy and whether they live or die depends on your whims. If you get bored with them, they'll have no one to feed them or take care of their needs, so their only option is to find ways to amuse you so you won't abandon them to an agonizing, slow death by starvation and general neglect. The game ramps the dependency-part up to eleven by having your [=BitBuddy=]'s survival literally dependent on whether you play his game. In that context, the increasingly desperate attempts of your [=BitBuddy=] to amuse you with various bland mini-games and "modes" that do little more than change the background become pretty hard and depressing to watch.

* AndIMustScream: The [=BitBuddies=] are fully aware that closing their window or quitting their game means they will die and beg you not do either of these things the moment they come into existence. Of course they can't do much else than beg and chances are you'll have to move on with your life eventually and so they live on extremely short borrowed time and are unable to do anything to change their fate. [[spoiler: When the screen goes dark for a while when you clean up the balls, your [=BitBuddy=] later tells you that he got trapped in darkness during that time, still able to think but unable to do much else.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of "caretaker" and "VirtualPet" video games like ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}''. Having a cute digital creature to take care of is fun - for the one doing the caretaking. From the point of view of the creature, they're completely at your mercy and whether they live or die depends on your whims. If you get bored with them, they'll have no one to feed them or take care of their needs, so their only option is to find ways to amuse you so you won't abandon them to an agonizing, slow death by starvation and general neglect. The game ramps the dependency-part UpToEleven by having your [=BitBuddy=]'s survival literally dependent on whether you play his game. In that context, the increasingly desperate attempts of your [=BitBuddy=] to amuse you with various bland mini-games and "modes" that do little more than change the background become pretty hard and depressing to watch.

''[=BitBuddy=]™'' is a psychological horror pixel art VirtualPet game. It was developed by Daniel Mullins Games of ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'' and ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'' fame and released on April the 4th 2022 for the Ludum Dare 50. It's available for [[https://dmullinsgames.itch.io/special-offer-claim-your-free-bitbuddy free]].

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* NiceHat: The given Promo Code allows you to equip your [=BitBuddy=] with a randomly generated hat. [=BitBuddy=] seems mostly annoyed by it, though.

* AndIMustScream: The [=BitBuddy=]'s are fully aware that closing their window or quitting their game means they will die and beg you not do either of these things the moment they come into existence. Of course they can't do much else than beg and chances are you'll have to move on with your life eventually and so they live on extremely short borrowed time and are unable to do anything to change their fate. [[spoiler: When the screen goes dark for a while when you clean up the balls, your [=BitBuddy=] later tells you that he got trapped in darkness during that time, still able to think but unable to do much else.]]

* AllForNothing: Your [=BitBuddy=] can succeed in convincing/guilt-tripping you into not quitting the game even after all the modes and mini-games have been played out. Only to notice the next day that he's at the end of his life-span. The little guy struggled so desperately to live, only for it to turn out he didn't have that long of a life left either way.

** You can wait out the Holiday Mode and refuse to kill [=BitBuddy=] while it's running, even though he tells you he would prefer dying there. Only to then quit the game once he's back to the regular area.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of "caretaker" and "VirtualPet" video games like ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}''. Having a cute digital creature to take care of is fun - for the one doing the caretaking. From the point of view of the creature, they're completely at your mercy and whether they live or die depends on your whims. If you get bored with them, they'll have no one to feed them or take care of their needs, so their only option is to find ways to amuse you so you won't abandon them to an agonizing, slow death by starvation and general neglect. The game ramps the dependency-part UpToEleven by having your [=BitBuddy=]'s survival literally dependent on whether you play his game. In that context, the increasingly desperate attempts of your [=BitBuddy=] to amuse you with various bland mini-games and "modes" that do little more than change the background pretty hard to watch.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of "caretaker" and "VirtualPet" video games like ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}''. Having a cute digital creature to take care of is fun - for the one doing the caretaking. From the point of view of the creature, they're completely at your mercy and whether they live or die depends on your whims. If you get bored with them, they'll have no one to feed them or take care of their needs, so their only option is to find ways to amuse you so you won't abandon them to an agonizing, slow death by starvation and general neglect.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: If you're willing to wait it out, you can let your [=BitBuddy=] live his entire life of one day out until he dies a natural death. Sure, he still dies, but at least he gets to enjoy as much time as possible with you.

* GuiltBasedGaming: [=BitBuddy=] outright tells you that "If you press quit or close this window, I will die". He's ''not'' kidding.

* GuiltBasedGaming: [=BitBuddy=] outright tells you that "If you quit, I will die". He's ''not'' kidding.

* DownerEnding: When you quit the game or close the window, you'll find out that buddy ''does'' die if you do and you'll be treated to a [[StrippedToTheBone view of their skeleton]] before the game is closed.

''[=BitBuddy=]™'' is a psychological horror pixel art VirtualPet game. It was developed by Daniel Mullins Games of ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'' and ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'' fame and released on April the 4th 2022 for the Ludum Dare. It's available for [[https://dmullinsgames.itch.io/special-offer-claim-your-free-bitbuddy free]].

''[=BitBuddy=]™'' is a psychological horror pixel art game. It was developed by Daniel Mullins Games of ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'' and ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'' fame and released on April the 4th 2022 for the Ludum Dare. It's available for [[https://dmullinsgames.itch.io/special-offer-claim-your-free-bitbuddy free]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of "caretaker" video games like ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}''. Having a cute digital creature to take care of is fun - for the one doing the caretaking. From the point of view of the creature, they're completely at your mercy and whether they live or die depends on your whims. If you get bored with them, they'll have no one to feed them or take care of their needs, so their only option is to find ways to amuse you so you won't abandon them to an agonizing, slow death by starvation and general neglect.

* AndIMustScream: The [=BitBuddy=]'s are fully aware that closing their window or quitting their game means they will die and beg you not do either of these things the moment they come into existence. Of course they can't do much else than beg and chances are you'll have to move on with your life eventually and so they live on extremely short borrowed time and are unable to do anything to change their fate. [[spoiler: When the screen goes dark for a while when you clean up the balls, Doobeth later tells you that he got trapped in darkness during that time, still able to think but not much else.]]

* AndIMustScream: The [=BitBuddy=]'s are fully aware that closing their window or quitting their game means they will die and beg you not do either of these things the moment they come into existence. Of course they can't do much else than beg and chances are you'll have to move on with your life eventually and so they live on extremely short borrowed time and are unable to do anything to change their fate.

* AndIMustScream: The [=BitBuddy=]'s are fully aware that closing their window or quitting their game means they will die and beg you not do either of these things the moment they come into existence. of course they can't do much else than beg and chances are you'll have to move on with your life eventually and so they live on extremely short borrowed time and are unable to do anything to change their fate.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of "caretaker" video games like ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}''. Having a cute creature to take care of is fun - for the one doing the caretaking. From the point of view of the creature, they're completely at your mercy and whether they live or die depends on your whims. If you get bored with them, they'll have no one to feed them or take care of their needs, so their only option is to find ways to amuse you so you won't abandon them to an agonizing, slow death by starvation and general neglect.

->''"If you quit adding tropes or click away from this entry, I will die."''

''[=BitBuddy=]'' is a phsychological horror pixel art game. It was developed by Daniel Mullins Games of ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'' and ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'' fame and released on April the 4th 2022 for the Ludum Dare. It's available for [[https://dmullinsgames.itch.io/special-offer-claim-your-free-bitbuddy free]].