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title: Zombie Protagonist
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[Skip the chat, go to the game](/stuff/zombie_protagonist/)

Some time in the mid-aughts, I decided to write a Flash game. Being
the sort to make things difficult for myself and others, I decided to
write it in a language which was brand-new at the time,
[Haxe](http://haxe.org/) (though back then it was stylized "haXe").

I wrote the game, hand-crafted the sprites, used my own voice for the
sound effects, and snagged a Creative Commons font from some website
that had fonts. I used [darcs](http://darcs.net/) for source control,
and hosted the repository on a site which shut down a couple years
back.

[The game itself](/stuff/zombie_protagonist/) is extremely
simple. You're not a zombie, you're a protagonist trying to save
people from zombies. All you have going for you is a loud voice and
slightly less fragility than everyone else (iirc, you only got
infected if touched by more than one zombie at once, as opposed to the
people you're trying to save).

Even through the repo's gone, I've got a tarball of the source, and
intend to see if it still compiles once I get some time.


