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on this, the first day of the Lost Histories Jam, i am thinking about a formative game from my childhood kye.me.uk/xmas.htmlPermalink Look on archive.org
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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 historyPermalink Look on archive.org
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i wonder how long it would take me to make a Kye-like...Permalink Look on archive.org
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it turns out... not that long!Permalink Look on archive.org
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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)Permalink Look on archive.org
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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...Permalink Look on archive.org
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also, yes, don't worry, the final thing will be christmas themedLook on archive.org