Origin is a pile ... how could the replacement possibly be worse?!

This looks exactly like a site out of Hypnospace Outlaw, an video game where you moderate websites in an alternate 1990s where mind-reading technology exists.

Neat! I didn't know that it had cameras pointed at itself until now.

It doesn't have cameras. Around 24 min mark they talk about that design decision. What we see is just a 3d model generated from sensors placed on the craft.

I tip my fedora to you, good sir.

That was fixed ages ago, but still exists as a running inside joke.

Considering how difficult is to follow lengthy posts that are split up in reverse chronological order, and how unintuitive it is to find replies, I surely disagree. The medium is very poor for centralized discussion of a single topic, in contrast to something like a single Reddit or HN article.

what is the legality of this website? I don't see anything indicating that it's an official port.

>JS Kid Pix / Kid Pix 1.0 was released in to the public domain and this is an HTML/JS reimplementation.

source: https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix

Check out this itch page for some suggestions:

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2020

Scroll down to the " Help—I’ve never created a game before!" section and there are some suggestions like Phaser or Godot.

Thanks, this is a good starting point.

Am I mistaken, or isn't his given name "Tarn?"

You’re right. I tend to make mistakes typing on mobile.

He's lucky enough for it to be both.