What Other Kinds of Apps and Games Does Girkov Arpa Publish?

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Girkov Arpa's itch.io page is a one-developer catalogue that goes well beyond the ancestry heatmap tools the name is often associated with. Alongside the G25 and 23andMe projects, the page lists GameMaker and Rust development aids, small desktop utilities for clipboard, image and screen tasks, and a handful of browser-playable games and educational toys. Most items are Windows-style desktop programs distributed through itch.io; several are marked with a price (for example $3.50, $4.99, $25), while a few carry a "Run in browser" label. The list below groups what is actually shown on the page so you can decide which category is worth opening first.

Ancestry and DNA tools (the best-known cluster)

These are the projects most people arrive for, and they share a common input: your own genetic coordinates or 23andMe export.

  • G25 France Heatmap and G25 Europe Heatmap — "Run in browser"; generate a heatmap from your G25 coordinates.
  • G25 Europe Heatmap PLUS ($4.99) — same idea, but accepts K36 or G25 coordinates.
  • Genetic Origins Heatmap ($4.99) — visualizes ancestral origins from 23andMe data.
  • Region Relatives 4 23andMe ($3.50) — reveals region relative counts.
  • Phaser 4 23andMe ($4.99) — shows mom's and dad's contributions to your DNA.
  • Relative Browser 4 23andMe — "Run in browser"; sorts relatives by haplogroup, surname, gender and more.
  • Augur — guesses eye color from your data.

If your goal is simply to try something without installing anything, the browser-run items (the two base G25 heatmaps and Relative Browser) are the lowest-friction entry points.

GameMaker and Rust development tools

This is the second large group, aimed at people building games rather than analyzing DNA.

Tool What the page says it does Price signal
LengthDir GML Generator For GameMaker programmers $4.99
Textbox Injector for GMS:2.2 Add a textbox to your game —
.ini RPG Engine .ini files + dialog boxes = games —
Depth Sorting For GameMaker Depth sorting helper —
How To Use GameMaker with Rust Rust DLL + GameMaker examples —
Calligrapher AI Machine Learning with Rust $25
Unofficial Sciter Template A Sciter starting point "by a sciter noob" —
GameScripter.JS Write games in JavaScript $4.99

The pattern here is narrow, practical helpers rather than engines: a GML snippet generator, a textbox injector, a depth-sorting reference, and a worked example of calling Rust from GameMaker. The $25 Calligrapher AI entry is the outlier in both scope and price.

Desktop utilities

A third cluster is general-purpose Windows-style tools, mostly for copy-paste and image workflows:

  • Clipomagic ($4.99) — clipboard manager.
  • Floating Clipboard — a always-available paste window.
  • PikPicPASTE ($4.99) — "for people who paste pics a lot."
  • Nifty Image Previewer — hassle-free image viewing.
  • ColPik — grab and save colors from your screen.
  • File Content Search — find files containing your text.
  • Stencil Bomb — turn any image into a stencil floating over your screen.
  • Super Advanced Update Utility ($4.99) — customizable game launcher and updater.
  • Texture Archive Editor — add or remove textures from .bin files.
  • Splash Changer for GIMP — customize GIMP's loading screen.
  • PostDaddy ($3.50) — REST API testing.
  • German Gender Highlighter — grammatical gender syntax color-coding.
  • FunWrite — a goal-oriented text editor.
  • Karaoke Reminder — a persistent to-do overlay.

These are single-purpose tools; the page descriptions are one line each, so treat the listing as a menu of small fixes rather than a suite.

Games, overlays and playful experiments

The remainder mixes small games with streamer-oriented overlays:

  • Who Wants To Be The Next Voltaire? — a debate game, "Educational / Play in browser."
  • Gnat Attack! — swat flies on your desktop.
  • vPen — pen tracker overlay for vtubers.
  • TransTube ($4.99) — transparent vtuber avatar overlay.
  • GIF entries appear repeatedly as a tag on the page, suggesting animated previews rather than a separate product line.

How to choose what to open

Use the label on each card as your filter. "Run in browser" means no install and is the right choice for a quick trial of the ancestry heatmaps or Relative Browser. A dollar figure means the item is sold through itch.io at that listed price; the page does not state licensing or refund terms, so check the individual product page before buying. Unlabeled desktop tools are the ones to inspect if you have a specific annoyance — a clipboard that loses images, a GIMP splash you want to change, or a GameMaker textbox you keep rebuilding by hand.

One caution: several tools depend on external data or software you must already have — 23andMe exports for the DNA tools, GameMaker for the GML helpers, GIMP for the splash changer. The page describes what each tool does with that input but not setup steps, so expect to read the individual listing before installing.