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Reviving 1990s Digital Dress-Up Dolls with Smooch
The Kisekae Set System or KiSS is an open specification for digital dress-up dolls created in 1991 and expanded throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Artists created thousands of KiSS dolls over the twenty years it was in active use. It includes a custom image format, a domain-specific scripting language, and a wide array of viewers and editing tools. In this talk, we'll take a deep dive into how KiSS works and how we can revive this dead format using JavaScript and Haskell.
Libby Horacek
Position Development
Libby is a software developer and worker-owner at Position Development. For the past six years, she's maintained several open source Haskell libraries. She started Smooch, a browser-based viewer for KiSS dolls, while attending Recurse Center in 2015.