# I Turned My GitHub Year Into a Retro Game — Rendered Locally With React and Remotion
Every December I see those "GitHub Wrapped" posts and feel the same mix of curiosity and discomfort: what exactly are those services doing with my token? Where is my contribution data going? Why do I have to wait in a queue for someone else's server to render a video about my year? So I built my own, entirely on my machine. No cloud, no upload, no third-party service. Just Node, React, and a…
In December, the author sees GitHub Wrapped posts and questions the privacy and reliance on third-party services. To address these concerns, the author built a local alternative called Anima GitHub Local using only Node, React, and headless Chrome. This tool generates a 53-second retro-style MP4 video of a user's GitHub contributions.
The video features different game scenarios representing various contributions, with the video duration and difficulty increasing with the number of contributions. The project uses open-source tools like Remotion, React 18, Vite, TypeScript, and the GitHub GraphQL API. The author also drew original pixel art and synthesized chiptune soundtracks, ensuring a fully local and open-source solution.
The project was influenced by open source projects like github-unwrapped-2023 and the work of Jonny Burger on determinism in video rendering.
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