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    1. on this, the first day of the Lost Histories Jam, i am thinking about a formative game from my childhood kye.me.uk/xmas.html
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    Lost Histories Jam is at itch.io/jam/lost-histories-jam , btw - a weeklong jam for writing commentary of some kind about a neglected aspect of videogame history
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      i wonder how long it would take me to make a Kye-like...
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        it turns out... not that long!
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          this is done in a single JS file, no libraries as yet. it's a friendly, low-level way to program - blitting to a pixel array manually, defining your level data as an array with const values in... (also i haven't written the bit where it loads graphics from a tilemap yet)
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            i am recreating the features of Kye from memory - so many particular bits of behaviour are still vivid. i should probably start making notes as i go...
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              also, yes, don't worry, the final thing will be christmas themed