BETTER GRAPHICS COMING SOON

The Darkade, or Dark Acre Arcade, is a ‘personal game jam’ project where the parameters are:

• 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.

05.03.12 – Jaxxon – 12 hour build NEW!
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 net’ 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.

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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

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MINIS

These are projects that started out of random inspiration. Mostly demonstrating basic gameplay elements or some mechanical systems.

COMING AS SOON AS I ORGANIZE THE POSTS