About
What is WokeIsland?
WokeIsland is a site I made in Junior Highschool to play my favorite Flash games unblocked during class.
WokeIsland was founded on .
My HTML skills were poor back then, and I hacked it together with non-validating styles & documents.
I've since learned more about the web and decided to revamp the site with modern practices, better spelling, Ruffle integration and mobile-responsiveness.
Why WokeIsland?
There was a meme where people would say they are "Woke" or "I'm woke" to refer to getting out of bed and it was pretty funny. My old online alias was also "Wokeing".
Why do none of the games work?
At one point in time they worked flawlessly. Cross origin requests are blocked for most websites now-a-days, so I can't hotlink. Neocities also disallows .swf file uploads. ☠️
Tech Stack
This site uses HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SCSS. Sourcemaps are included for those interested in the source. Terser & Sass compression are used for better performance.
For HTML minification, I manually ran each page through a minifier. I should probably learn WebPack...
Why does the site look like shit?
I intentionally made it look like old webpages, and used Roblox's <2010 navbar style for nostalgic value.
Who is Paul?
Paul is the default Blockland Blockhead character with some contoured eyebrows.
Where is the old site?
The old site has been archived. You can view it on archive.org if you wish.
Roadmap
If I return to this site, probably a seperate service on Vercel/Netlify for fewer limitations.
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