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An interface · Hawkins, Indiana · 1985

Hawkins Indiana

Every room on this site, as a store in Starcourt Mall or a cabinet in the Palace Arcade. Point at one, tab to it, or on a phone scroll it into the middle of the screen, and the bulbs on Joyce Byers’ wall light one at a time to spell it out, the way Will talked through them from the other side.

Start at the mall. Keep scrolling and the town goes over: the lights go cold, the vines come in, and by the bottom of the page you are reading the same rooms from the other side. The switch on the wall takes you there at once if you would rather not walk.

Starcourt Mall directory

Every room on the site, as a store

Level 1

Main EntranceHome · the front door of the site Scoops AhoyEvery project · the Scoops Troop’s headquarters Starcourt CinemaStranger Things · the world page, now showing The Palace ArcadeGaming Family VideoAccents & impersonations Radio ShackStar Wars apps · and two droids Melvald’s General StoreThe lightsaber guide · every light in the shop

Level 2

The BookshopEducation The Varsity ShopCollege · UC Irvine The AV ClubHigh School · where it started Mall SecurityRésumé · the file on record CerebroAl-Islam apps The Travel AgentTravels · where I have been

Below the mall · authorized personnel only

The LabWork at UC Irvine The GateAll 74 worlds · a door to each

Palace Arcade

The other terminals, one cabinet each

  1. E.L.M.A.L.L.A.H.Star Wars holotable
  2. The HolocronJedi archive
  3. J.A.R.V.I.S.Stark heads-up display
  4. The Marauder’s MapHarry Potter parchment
  5. The Crafting TableMinecraft
  6. The CitadelGame of Thrones
  7. The CompassPirates of the Caribbean
  8. The Control RoomJurassic Park
  9. The Spirit LibraryAvatar: The Last Airbender
  10. The MonasteryNinjago
  11. The Wanted BoardRed Dead Redemption
  12. Dunder MifflinThe Office
  13. SpringfieldThe Simpsons
  14. Vought TowerThe Boys
  15. The PokédexPokémon
  16. The BatcomputerBatman
  17. The Daily BugleSpider-Man
  18. The Grail DiaryIndiana Jones
  19. The Red BookThe Lord of the Rings
  20. The Power BatteryGreen Lantern
  21. The WatchtowerThe Justice League

High scores: the Palace Arcade, biggest first

  1. 812Lines of JavaScriptthe Star Wars Datapad, 2021
  2. 747Steam achievementsfour Steam Replays, 2022–2025
  3. 500+Discord serversSabacc Droid and Aurebesh Droid
  4. 70Worldson this site
  5. 35Trips19 by plane, 16 by road, 2015–2026
  6. 19Accentsand 4 impersonations
  7. 12Apps shippedacross four platforms

Scoops AhoyToday’s menu: the keeper, on record

Name
Abubakr Elmallah
Studying
Computer Science at UC Irvine, class of 2028
Position
Lead mobile & backend developer at UC Irvine
Shipped
Twelve apps, across four platforms
First solo project
Order 66, in Scratch, 2021
First real code
The Star Wars Datapad on Code.org, 2021: 812 lines of JavaScript
App Store
Datapad, June 26, 2023, which reached the Top 10 of the paid Entertainment chart
Award
Winner of the Apple Swift Student Challenge 2024 with Al-Quran, and a trip to WWDC 2024
Islamic apps
Al-Islam, Al-Quran and Al-Adhan: three apps, two national awards
Radio traffic
Sabacc Droid and Aurebesh Droid, Discord bots in more than 500 servers
Last seen
33.64°N 117.84°W
The world this is built from Stranger Things

The song Jonathan played for Will