u/Arkadligan

Hello!

So, just like a lot of you guys in here, Arcades has helped me a lot throughout my childhood. It gave me friends and even inspired me to study when no one else was there to help me. Today, the younger generations have plenty of games, but there are not a lot of places for them to meet and play together. See the physical machines that play your games.

I used to run an arcade, and when we shut down, I donated some of my machines and meant a lot to me. Since then, I have had a dream to set up a physical/digital arcade system, and I would love to hear what you think? So here is my pitch:

Problem:

1. Physical arcade shops have a hard time surviving and attracting mostly older people.

2. Digital games are fun but lack genuine connectivity

Solution:

Host a digital "arcade website" with classic style arcade games and have arcade machines that play these games. Both physical and digital versions play on the same leader board. Therefore, you can make do with just one machine and still be connected.

So, who is going to have these machines?

Well you can of course build your own, have them at home, donate them etc.

But my goal is to build them for charity so you can put them in hospitals, youth centers, etc.

This would therefore make the entire world an arcade.

So far, I have set up a website with global leaderboards as a P.O.C, and we have received a ton of support, so it seems doable.

So how do you like the idea, can it be done?

Hello!

I used to run an old arcade shop for a couple of years. It was probably the best and hardest years of my life, running an arcade shop in rural sweden is HARD, we made our money form selling coins that you could use to play on our arcade machines, which was our biggest selling point since 80% of the machines where made by us, and the games where our own games as well. Because we made out own machines the biggest income for us was custom machines for customers, and i LOVED making custom machines, it was so fun turning their ideas of how the machine should look and them describing their dream game, and then getting to do it as a job, it was amazing.

Well I have so many stories from my old shop but I wanted to talk about the last day that the shop was open, sure it was a sad day for me but honestly a relief in a way. Everyone played for free the entire day, we had a band and we even had a tournement where the winner got to take home any one of the arcade machines from the shop.

The game that we played was my version of DOOM, you played a wizard and you got to choose between 3 different wizard types (Fire, frost or demon) and you basically ran around in a cave fighting aliens protecting their most holy artifact. The tournament went amazing people loved the stakes and winning an arcade really ment a lot for some of the kinds. and in the end a really shy kid nick named PENTY, won the entire tournament, holy moly was it cool seeing that shy kid go from zero to hero ina couple of hours, and that was not even the best part. After he won he went up to me and told me in secret that he wanted to donate the machine to his school, but not to tell any one.

I never saw PENTY again but I can imagine he is doing great with a heart like that

Hello!

I used to run an arcade shop back in the days, back then I had a project where kids helped me develop my arcade games by provide both game Mechanics, story or art work (there is some creativity that you can't get with adults or older children)

And since I only run an online arcade website now and not one in real life, I thought I would try to take this project online. So, if that sounds like an interesting project, I would love some help from you guys.

What I would need from you is ask you kids if this sounds like a fun project ages 4-10 is ideal, if you kids love to draw, tell stories, or play video games.

This project of mine is completely non-profit. I make and publish my games all for free, so I lose money, so unfortunately, I can't pay anything, but your kids will be credited either with their name or alias or whatever they want.

Comment or DM me, and I'll make sure to answer. Thanks!

Hello!

I used to run an arcade shop back in the days, back then I had a project where kids helped me develop my arcade games by provide both game Mechanics, story or art work (there is some creativity that you can't get with adults or older children)

And since I only run an online arcade website now and not one in real life, I thought I would try to take this project online. So, if that sounds like an interesting project, I would love some help from you guys.

What I would need from you is ask you kids if this sounds like a fun project ages 4-10 is ideal, if you kids love to draw, tell stories, or play video games.

This project of mine is completely non-profit. I make and publish my games all for free, so I lose money, so unfortunately, I can't pay anything, but your kids will be credited either with their name or alias or whatever they want.

Comment or DM me, and I'll make sure to answer. Thanks!

Hello!

I used to run an arcade shop back in the days, back then I had a project where kids helped me develop my arcade games by provide both game Mechanics, story or art work (there is some creativity that you can't get with adults or older children)

And since I only run an online arcade website now and not one in real life, I thought I would try to take this project online. So, if that sounds like an interesting project, I would love some help from you guys.

What I would need from you is ask you kids if this sounds like a fun project ages 4-10 is ideal, if you kids love to draw, tell stories, or play video games.

This project of mine is completely non-profit. I make and publish my games all for free, so I lose money, so unfortunately, I can't pay anything, but your kids will be credited either with their name or alias or whatever they want.

Comment or DM me, and I'll make sure to answer. Thanks!

Hello!

I used to run an arcade shop back in the days, back then I had a project where kids helped me develop my arcade games by provide both game Mechanics, story or art work (there is some creativity that you can't get with adults or older children)

And since I only run an online arcade website now and not one in real life, I thought I would try to take this project online. So, if that sounds like an interesting project, I would love some help from you guys.

What I would need from you is ask you kids if this sounds like a fun project ages 4-10 is ideal, if you kids love to draw, tell stories, or play video games.

This project of mine is completely non-profit. I make and publish my games all for free, so I lose money, so unfortunately, I can't pay anything, but your kids will be credited either with their name or alias or whatever they want.

Comment or DM me, and I'll make sure to answer. Thanks!

Hello! So this is a short and hopefully a little inspiring of what a little project can do to people. When I closed my old arcade shop I sold off a few of the arcade machines. One went to a man who drove down from up north with a trailer and a very specific idea of where it was going.

The one he took was running KRIGET. We made it ourselves, a WW2 shooter that starts out fairly normal, soldiers and trenches and so on, and then about halfway through the aliens turn up. They're looking for the holy grail. We stole it in the first place, which is the plot of the game we made before it, PYRAMIDEN, where you're a treasure hunter climbing down into a pyramid to get it back fron the egyptians. Nobody asked us to connect them. We just thought it was funny that they lined up.

He asked if I could put his daughter's name on the marquee instead of the title. She was five. I said sure, mostly because I thought it was a nice thing to do, and partly because I had no other use for a marquee that said nothing.

Hadn't thought about it since.

A few weeks ago he emails me out of nowhere. Subject line was just her name and the words "she did it".

Ten levels. She'd been chipping away at it since she was a kid, got stuck on nine for years aparently, and finally cleared the whole thing.

I want to be clear that I have never done that. I wrote the game and I have never done that.

He attached a photo. Same basement, slightly yellowed. She's nineteen now.

He wanted to know if I still built them.

I don't. But that basement is the only place KRIGET has existed for fifteen years. It never got put on anything else, and when the shop closed it went onto a drive and stayed there.

Hello!

So a while back, I posted a story about when I closed my arcade shop and and sold an old arcade machine to a father whose daughter completed the entire machine wich I didn't think anyone could complete.

Anyways that story got a lot of love from you guys, which I appreciate, but it didn't really fit this subreddit. So here is something more relevant.

Since I closed my Arcade shop, I have been digitalizing my games as webgames so more people can enjoy them, there for I need testplayers to help me balance the games for a different medium. So if you would like to play my games a few weeks before anyone else, please comment, and I'll get back to you! Most of my games follow a storyline, so this will give you an insight into the development of it

Thanks!

Hello! So this is a short and hopefully a little inspiring of what a little project can do to people. When I closed my old arcade shop I sold off a few of the arcade machines. One went to a man who drove down from up north with a trailer and a very specific idea of where it was going.

The one he took was running KRIGET. We made it ourselves, a WW2 shooter that starts out fairly normal, soldiers and trenches and so on, and then about halfway through the aliens turn up. They're looking for the holy grail. We stole it in the first place, which is the plot of the game we made before it, PYRAMIDEN, where you're a treasure hunter climbing down into a pyramid to get it back fron the egyptians. Nobody asked us to connect them. We just thought it was funny that they lined up.

He asked if I could put his daughter's name on the marquee instead of the title. She was five. I said sure, mostly because I thought it was a nice thing to do, and partly because I had no other use for a marquee that said nothing.

Hadn't thought about it since.

A few weeks ago he emails me out of nowhere. Subject line was just her name and the words "she did it".

Ten levels. She'd been chipping away at it since she was a kid, got stuck on nine for years aparently, and finally cleared the whole thing.

I want to be clear that I have never done that. I wrote the game and I have never done that.

He attached a photo. Same basement, slightly yellowed. She's nineteen now.

He wanted to know if I still built them.

I don't. But that basement is the only place KRIGET has existed for fifteen years. It never got put on anything else, and when the shop closed it went onto a drive and stayed there.

Hello! So this is a short and hopwfully a little inspiring of what a little project can do to people. When I closed my old arcade shop I sold off a few of the arcade machines. One went to a man who drove down from up north with a trailer and a very specific idea of where it was going.

The one he took was running KRIGET. We made it ourselves, a WW2 shooter that starts out fairly normal, soldiers and trenches and so on, and then about halfway through the aliens turn up. They're looking for the holy grail. We stole it in the first place, which is the plot of the game we made before it, PYRAMIDEN, where you're a treasure hunter climbing down into a pyramid to get it back fron the egyptians. Nobody asked us to connect them. We just thought it was funny that they lined up.

He asked if I could put his daughter's name on the marquee instead of the title. She was five. I said sure, mostly because I thought it was a nice thing to do, and partly because I had no other use for a marquee that said nothing.

Hadn't thought about it since.

A few weeks ago he emails me out of nowhere. Subject line was just her name and the words "she did it".

Ten levels. She'd been chipping away at it since she was a kid, got stuck on nine for years aparently, and finally cleared the whole thing.

I want to be clear that I have never done that. I wrote the game and I have never done that.

He attached a photo. Same basement, slightly yellowed. She's nineteen now.

He wanted to know if I still built them.

I don't. But that basement is the only place KRIGET has existed for fifteen years. It never got put on anything else, and when the shop closed it went onto a drive and stayed there.

Hello! When I closed my old arcade shop I sold off a few of the machines. One went to a man who drove down from up north with a trailer and a very specific idea of where it was going.

The one he took was running KRIGET. We made it ourselves, a WW2 shooter that starts out fairly normal, soldiers and trenches and so on, and then about halfway through the aliens turn up. They're looking for the holy grail. We stole it in the first place, which is the plot of the game we made before it, PYRAMIDEN, where you're a treasure hunter climbing down into a pyramid to get it back fron the egyptians. Nobody asked us to connect them. We just thought it was funny that they lined up.

He asked if I could put his daughter's name on the marquee instead of the title. She was six. I said sure, mostly because I thought it was a nice thing to do, and partly because I had no other use for a marquee that said nothing.

Hadn't thought about it since.

A few weeks ago he emails me out of nowhere. Subject line was just her name and the words "she did it".

Ten levels. She'd been chipping away at it since she was a kid, got stuck on nine for years, and finally cleared the whole thing.

I want to be clear that I have never done that. I wrote the game and I have never done that.

He attached a photo. Same basement, slightly yellowed. She's nineteen now.

He wanted to know if I still built them.

I don't. But that basement is the only place KRIGET has existed for fifteen years. It never got put on anything else, and when the shop closed it went onto a drive and stayed there.

So that's the game for August. First time it's been anywhere but next to that freezer, and there's a nineteen year old somewhere up north with a fairly large head start.

Hello!

So, a week ago or so, I posted a short story about a custom cabinet I sold when I closed my arcade shop in 2011. Basically, a father purchased it for his daughter, who was 6 or so at the time. The cabinet had one of my own games on it, a ww2 platform game. A month ago, the father emailed me a picture of her completing all 10 levels , which I thought was insane since I didn't program the game with the idea of anyone finishing it.

Well, I got a lot of love for the story, so I have now published the game on my website, so If you want to try to beat his daughter's (AMANDA\_64) high score, give it a shot!

Hello!

So here is some background story so that this post make scense. Back in 2010 I ran an arcade shop in Sweden, where i build all my cabinet my self and programmed all my games as well. Most of my income came from selling custom arcade machines, which i used to love. People bought them for all kinds of places and occations!

Well One of the games I had was a "brick breaker" style of game. This was one of my first, cabinetts I built and the premis was basically a clone of the classic game but with the difference where you could play 2 players at once, head to head. So I closed my shop years ago but I stil wanted my games to live somewhere, so I posted them on my website as webgames. Got some traffic and loved hearing about people playing my games again!

But a few days ago I got a takedown notice on this game... felt like shit but I had to do as they said. And I guess that the moral of the story is MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES. They are probably better than Atari games anyways!

Thanks!

Hello! I used to run an arcade shop with only my own games and when we closed the shop I sold off a few of the machines. One went to a man with a very specific idea of where it was going.

The one he took was running the game KRIGET. We made it ourselves, a WW2 shooter that starts out fairly normal, soldiers and trenches and so on, and then about halfway through the aliens turn up. They're looking for the holy grail. We stole it in the first place, which is the plot of the game we made before it, PYRAMIDEN, where you're a treasure hunter climbing down into a pyramid to get it back fron the egyptians. We just thought it was funny that they lined up.

He asked if I could put his daughter's name on the marquee instead of the title. She was six. I said sure, mostly because I thought it was a nice thing to do, and partly because I had no other use for a marquee that said nothing.

Hadn't thought about it since.

Last week he emails me out of nowhere. Subject line was just her name and the words "she did it".

The game consists of ten levels. She'd been chipping away at it since she was a kid, got stuck on nine for years, and finally cleared the whole thing.

I want to be clear that I have never done that. I wrote the game and I have never done that.

He attached a photo. Same basement, slightly yellowed. She's nineteen now.

He wanted to know if I still built them.

I don't. But that basement is the only place KRIGET has existed for fifteen years. It never got put on anything else, and when the shop closed it went onto a drive and stayed there.

O will publish this game on my arcade website and you will be able to play it from August 1st.

Hello! When we closed the shop I sold off a few of the machines. One went to a man who drove down from up north with a trailer and a very specific idea of where it was going.

The one he took was running KRIGET. We made it ourselves, a WW2 shooter that starts out fairly normal, soldiers and trenches and so on, and then about halfway through the aliens turn up. They're looking for the holy grail. We stole it in the first place, which is the plot of the game we made before it, PYRAMIDEN, where you're a treasure hunter climbing down into a pyramid to get it back fron the egyptians. Nobody asked us to connect them. We just thought it was funny that they lined up.

He asked if I could put his daughter's name on the marquee instead of the title. She was six. I said sure, mostly because I thought it was a nice thing to do, and partly because I had no other use for a marquee that said nothing.

Hadn't thought about it since.

Last week he emails me out of nowhere. Subject line was just her name and the words "she did it".

Ten levels. She'd been chipping away at it since she was a kid, got stuck on nine for years, and finally cleared the whole thing.

I want to be clear that I have never done that. I wrote the game and I have never done that.

He attached a photo. Same basement, slightly yellowed. She's nineteen now.

He wanted to know if I still built them.

I don't. But that basement is the only place KRIGET has existed for fifteen years. It never got put on anything else, and when the shop closed it went onto a drive and stayed there.

So that's the game for August. First time it's been anywhere but next to that freezer, and there's a nineteen year old somewhere up north with a fairly large head start.

Hey!

I run a project called Arkadligan, every month I release a new browser-based arcade game and everyone competes on the same leaderboard until the month's up. New month, new game, fresh scores. Free, classic coin-op vibes.

Thing is, I build the games myself, so I'm way too close to them to tell if they actually feel good to play. I'm after a few people to test before they go live — mostly checking difficulty balance, hunting bugs, and telling me whether it's actually fun.

If you love retro games this is the job for you!

Just message me, I'll give a 25 euro steam giftcard to one of the testplayers

Hello!

I have a follow up for the game PYRAMIDEN, and I need a few playtesters to give me feedback for this game.

Thank you!