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I Used My Last 7% of Copilot Tokens to Bring a 2014 WinForms Game Back to Life

Daniel Balcarek on June 02, 2026

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge Originally, I didn't plan to join this challenge because I'm moving away from Copil...
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Post scriptum:

Thanks to the traffic from this article, I discovered that my game was eagerly downloading a 9 MB WAV file even when music was disabled. πŸ˜…

I have now switched it to a 1.7 MB MP3 and load it only when the player actually enables music.

So the article ended up improving not only my nostalgia project, but also my Cloud Run bill. πŸ˜…

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Web Developer Hyper

Nice! It’s fun and a great brain exercise πŸ‘ You were already a great developer even 12 years ago!

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Daniel Balcarek

Oh, thanks! That warms my heart 😊

Funny enough, after all these years, level 4 was still the one I struggled with the most πŸ˜„

Btw, did you try the music? It's a true masterpiece... which is exactly why I had to switch it off after one level πŸ˜†

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Web Developer Hyper

Yes, I checked the music. The music makes the game even more exciting! 🎡🎢

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Hemapriya Kanagala

Daniel, this was a fun read. There is something satisfying about bringing an old project back to life and seeing what still holds up years later. Looks like those last 7% of Copilot tokens went to a good cause πŸ˜„

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Daniel Balcarek

Thank you, I’m glad you liked it!

Yep, probably the best use of my last 7% of Copilot tokens. πŸ˜… It was fun to migrate it and even more fun to play it again after all these years!

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Sylwia Laskowska

Thanks. Now, instead of working, I'm playing Easter Game πŸ˜„ And I suspect I'm not the only one.

I just hope those few stickers were worth the destruction of the entire IT industry πŸ˜‚

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Daniel Balcarek

Yesterday I couldn't finish level 4, so I ended up spending about 20 minutes playing it myself πŸ˜„πŸ˜„

Looks like the plan is working. One developer at a time, I will destroy them all! πŸ˜ˆπŸ˜‚

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Kye Jones

This was such a fun read. I love the idea of using your last bit of Copilot tokens to revive an old university project instead of starting something new from scratch.

There’s something really cool about looking back at old code and realising younger you actually made some solid architecture choices. Also, porting a WinForms puzzle game to the browser while keeping the original feel is a great use of AI as an assistant, not the whole builder.

Do you think you’ll keep adding levels to it now that it’s alive again?

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Daniel Balcarek

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it! 😊

If the game gets some natural traffic and people enjoy it, then why not? Creating puzzle levels is a lot of fun and it would be nice to give this old project a bit more life after all these years.

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Abid Turi

Ngl, such a nice game <3

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Daniel Balcarek

Thanks! I'm glad you like it 😊

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The Lazy Girl (β β—•β α΄—β β—•β βœΏβ )

Very enjoyable 😊

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Daniel Balcarek

Oh, thanks! 😊 I'm glad that such an old game is getting so much positive feedback. πŸ˜„