Case study

linyaga: a Yaga game runtime for Pajama Sam and Putt-Putt

linyaga supplies a replacement runtime for two Humongous Entertainment Yaga games: Pajama Sam: Life is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff and Putt-Putt: Pep's Birthday Surprise. Its C host exposes resource, animation, video and audio functions to Python code and reads the user's original game files.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 27
Last commit: 2021-05-16
Language: C
Status: Archived

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Original .he and .da2 game data files and the game executable.
Prerequisites: dr_libs, FFmpeg, Python 2.2.1, SDL2 and zlib for compilation.
Limits: Lipsync is missing.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{linyaga-yaga-engine-case,
  title = {{linyaga: a Yaga game runtime for Pajama Sam and Putt-Putt}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/cyxx/linyaga}},
  url = {https://github.com/cyxx/linyaga},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/linyaga-yaga-engine-case/}}
}

Plain text

linyaga: a Yaga game runtime for Pajama Sam and Putt-Putt. https://github.com/cyxx/linyaga (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/linyaga-yaga-engine-case/

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Primary sources

README.md GitHub · cyxx/linyaga · Revision 5ed99d7
yagahost.c GitHub · cyxx/linyaga · Revision 5ed99d7