Inspiration
The internet forgets. Google Reader, Winamp, Clippy, Road Rash and 3D Pinball were part of growing up online, then one day they were shut down. Killed by Google lists the dead; I wanted a place to visit them and bring them back.
What it does
Raise Dead is a walkable, moonlit pixel-art graveyard of 40 discontinued apps and games. Walk your wizard to a glowing tombstone, press F, and a resurrection ritual brings the app back as a playable browser tribute. Includes Clicky the Paperclip (Meta Muse Spark or a 33-node dialogue tree), an Unmarked Grave that AI-writes a 60-second tribute, and playable Road Rash, Winamp, 3D Pinball Space Cadet and 3D Pipes.
How we built it
Kiro CLI is the coding harness. The repo's /.kiro folder holds steering files and specs for every grave and system. Stack: Phaser 3, TypeScript, Vite, Cloudflare Pages and D1, Meta Model API.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
A full world with 40 graves, a working ritual, five playable resurrections plus an infinite AI one, and every asset original, CC0 or open source with credits. Spec-driven development let one person ship a whole game world.
Challenges we ran into
Letting AI-written games run safely: generated code is served under a no-network CSP in a sandboxed iframe, with per-visitor quotas and prompt-injection checks. Making the graveyard feel alive took lighting, moonlit grading, footsteps and wind.
What's next
More graves rising (Google Reader is next), community-suggested graves and a shared hall of resurrections.
Built With
- cloudflare-d1
- cloudflare-pages
- javascript
- kiro
- meta-muse-spark
- phaser.js
- typescript
- vite
