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+% jan lawa pi linja ilo (translation hack)
+% /dev/urandom
+% august 2020
+
+# what's it about?
+
+This is a translation of the public domain homebrew game "LAN Master" by
+[Shiru](http://shiru.untergrund.net/) that changes all of the text in game into
+sitelen pona.
+
+# what's "lan master"
+
+"LAN Master" is a puzzle game, in which your goal is to connect all of the
+computers with pipe-like cables. You can rotate any piece of cable, and whenever
+the cables form an unbroken connection between all the machines, the level is
+over. However, the game has a time limit, and on later stages, random
+connections may "break" and rotate themselves. The idea is similar to an old
+game called "NetWalk", but unlike "NetWalk", there is no central "server" that
+all computers must be connected to.
+
+# why translate an nes game?
+
+The now-retired toki pona pages by jan Pije offered a bunch of toki pona translation ROM
+hacks for old games, and to sort of honor jan Pije's contributions, I decided to
+try and make my own translation hack. Except in this case, the game is
+public-domain and open-source, which means there are no copyright issues with
+hosting the game.
+
+# screenshots
+
+![Title Screen](jan_lawa_title.png)
+
+![Gameplay](jan_lawa_gameplay.png)
+
+# downloads
+
+* [NES ROM file](jan_lawa.nes)
+
+* [(Very messy) source code](jan_lawa_src.tar.gz)
+