random games from the yoyogames game maker sandbox (2007-2016), posted to mastodon and bsky every few hours.
based on the database assembled at https://www.yygarchive.org/, with additional images scraped from the wayback machine.
you can download and play these games!
https://mastodon.social/@yygarchive
https://bsky.app/profile/yygarchive.bsky.social
this is a bot that posts a queue of images to bsky and mastodon. it's written in typescript and runs on node.js.
you can run it on your computer and even remix it into something new! you'll need node and git installed. if you install node manually, you should match the node version listed in the .node-version file — but instead of installing node directly i recommend using fnm, which can automatically handle installing and switching node versions by detecting .node-version files.
once you're set, run:
git clone https://github.com/lostfictions/yygarchive
cd yygarchive
corepack enable # enables use of the pnpm package manager
pnpm install
pnpm devrunning pnpm dev will generate an image and save it to a file on your computer. when posting to the internet, this bot runs using github actions' scheduled events. check out the workflow file for more details.
if you clone the repository you can run your own remixed version that posts to mastodon using github actions too! no need to edit the workflow file — you'll just need to set some environment variables in the github repository settings:
MASTODON_TOKEN: a Mastodon user API tokenBSKY_USERNAME: the bot's username on BlueskyBSKY_PASSWORD: the app password for the bot's account on Bluesky
additionally, MASTODON_SERVER (hardcoded in src/env.ts) controls the mastodon instance to which API calls should be made (usually where the bot user lives.)
this bot uses dotenv, so if you're testing things locally, you can stick any of the above environment variables in a file named .env in the project root. (it's gitignored, so there's no risk of accidentally committing private API tokens you put in there.)