Darkmoon Arcade: A WoW: Forever addon with mini games for your flights
Update 1.1.0: New game Spellbounce, inspired by your Peggle memories! Launch spell orbs through glowing runes with all nine classic classes, each with its own power, across ten maps with a fireworks finale. Scores can now also be whispered to friends.
Original Post:
Hey everyone!
Anyone who has taken a longer flight path knows the feeling: there's nothing to do but stare at your character's back. So I built Darkmoon Arcade, a small collection of mini games that opens automatically when you take a flight path and pauses your game the moment you land or get pulled into combat.
The games so far
- Murloc Blast: a bubble shooter with three difficulties, stone bubbles, bombs and endless levels
- Flappy Griffin: one button, one gryphon, lots of pipes. Collect Darkmoon tickets and earn medals
- Jewels of Uldum: match three with flame gems, prisms and cascades, in Classic or Blitz mode
- Goblin Slot Machine: build your own slot machine one symbol at a time and pay the goblin banker's ever-rising rent
Other features
- Live estimate of the remaining flight time (WIP)
- Top 10 highscores per game and a guild leaderboard (shared quietly between guild members who run the addon)
- 60 achievements, some of them really tough
- Share your score in say, party or guild chat
- English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese
You choose whether the arcade opens on flights with your favorite game, with the game selection or not at all. You can also open it anytime with /arcade or the minimap button.
Download: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/darkmoon-arcade
Source (MIT): https://github.com/lianthia/darkmoon-arcade
This is version 1.0, so I'd love to hear your feedback. Bugs, balancing, ideas for the next game: let me know here or open an issue on GitHub. Which game should come next?
AI Disclaimer:
- Code: Most of the Lua code was written by an AI coding assistant (Claude) based on my ideas and feedback. I tested every feature in-game, reported bugs and decided on gameplay, layout and balancing. The game logic is also covered by automated tests that run outside the client.
- Text and translations: The in-game texts and the translations into French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese were generated with AI. I checked the English and German versions; corrections from native speakers are very welcome.
- Logo and icon: The logo and the minimap icon were created with an AI image generator.
- Other graphics and sounds: Card art, backgrounds, effects and sounds were generated procedurally by Python scripts (written with AI help, included in the repo). Item icons, the gryphon model and creature voices are loaded from the game client and not included.