DARKADE
BETTER GRAPHICS COMING SOON
The Darkade, or Dark Acre Arcade, [was] a “personal game jam” project where the parameters [were]:
- Clone an existing arcade classic.
- Do it from scratch, using as little reference material as possible.
- Do it between 0700 and 2300 on a Sunday.
- Publish it to the web, no matter what.
Below are the current “winners”, in order of recency. Please enjoy and feel free to give any and all feedback, criticisms, comments. Bear in mind the constraints and that these projects are more for stress relief from the prime project(s) and less about providing a 5-star gaming experience.
(This was by far the most useful exercise I did as an independent game developer. I recovered the builds from a Dropbox that survived the Dark Acre Purge of 2015, and someday I’ll record video of them. –Ed.)
- 05.03.12 – Jaxxon – 12-hour build
- 26.02.12 – Potter – 7.5-hour build
- 19.02.12 – Darkatron – 8-hour build
- 12.02.12 – Gunflier – 8.5-hour build
- 05.02.12 – Darkipede – 6-hour build
- 29.01.12 – Dark Acre “Q” – 4-hour build
- 08.01.12 – Dark Acre Missile’d! – 3-hour build, 4-hour cleanup
- 15.12.11 – Dark Acre Fisher – 4-day build*
- 04.12.11 – Dark Acre Offender – 7-hour build
- 27.11.11 – Dark Acre Fragger – 10-hour build
- 20.11.11 – Dark Acre ‘Roids – 6-hour build
- 13.11.11 – Dark Acre Invaders – 3-hour build
*Dark Acre Fisher broke all of the rules because it got way out of hand, fast. Victim of overscope and then past the point of “oh this is just garbage I’ll vomit out on the Internet” into “I should probably make this look somewhat professional”. Fortunately, it also served as an excellent warm-up and exercise for the Ludum Dare 48 #22.
TRAINWRECKS
These are super throwaway throwaways, done without any real plan, goal, and a hard 2-hour time limit.
- 26.10.11 – Space Finger – 2-hour build
MINIS
These are projects that started out of random inspiration. Mostly demonstrating basic gameplay elements or some mechanical systems.
(In the original post I wrote, “Coming as soon as I organize the posts” and, years later, I have no idea what this meant. If said posts exist, I’ll update this section accordingly. –Ed.)
2011.11.13 – 2012.03.05