Holiday 22

First Day of Summer

Summer solstice

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When it falls

Summer solstice (around June 21) — fixed canonical date, ±1 day tolerance.

Worked dates:

Year Date
2026 June 21
2030 June 21
2050 June 21

What it shows on the island

From holidays.yml:

Smiling summer sun with shades.

Sprite

Dimensions: 32 × 32 pixels. Anchored at island position (404, 284).

Added by this port via the holiday expansion. existing_sprite: null. The visual is a 32x32 transparent emblem authored by an AI sub-agent in the shared 16-color CLUT defined in scripts/holidays_art_lib.py. It overlays the island corner during the holiday’s window rather than reskinning the scene.

Palette

 #5AD0E8,  #FFD93D,  #FFFFFF

Three-color hint from holidays.yml. This is a guide for the codegen step and the emblem authoring pass; the actual emblem samples from the shared 16-color CLUT, and the original Sierra sprites use the original game palette directly.

Algorithm

Returned by holidaySummerSolstice / holidayWinterSolstice as a fixed canonical date. See Date-algorithm core.

Emblem

This holiday has an emblem on the shared sheet at cell 18, pixel offset (64, 64). View the packed sheet on GitHub: docs/ps1/holidays-emblems/holiday-emblems-sheet.png. Full index: Emblem gallery.

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