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+# Crystalis screenshots
+
+This is a static site full of screenshots of the NES game
+[Crystalis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalis).
+
+There are 1200 screenshots (plus thumbnails), which totals to
+~15MB of images. ~5MB are loaded on initial page load.
+
+Deploy by running `./scripts/deploy.sh`. This will copy all the
+files to S3 and invalidate the CloudFront cache.