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At the turn of the year I set out to finish Tripods, a game I started making back in 2013. It’s a 2D puzzler built for the web using the DOM and SVG.1 I wrote the original prototype in 2013 using jQuery, but it’s now 2021 so the first task was to refactor the codebase to use vanilla JavaScript.2 For the animations — previously handled by jQuery’s animate() function — I ended up using the Web Animations API. It’s still at Working Draft status, but widely supported. I actually began by using the ...