This is some stuff that me and @der have been wanting to do for years. Where as I'm better at the web stuff, he's better at the game stuff, and we can work the two together to have them online and with stats synced to your account. As much as I love web programming, html and javascript are not the way to go. WebGL is going to be, and that's why we want to get some better games going on here.

I adapted some code to make a shitty snake game. Same for tetris. I built a turn-based chess game. I don't care if they're good or not because I made them just to see if I could, and study them. I figure it'll be better to include these, remastered for our new arcade idea.

I don't particularly care for pacman, but I think that type of game is essential. There are plenty of simple games out there. I want to get a Maximum Froggerdrive, some arcade beat-em ups, side scrollers, whatever. If they could build these games in kilobytes back then, surely, we can figure them out, too. I hope?!

Use people in the TE people database with the highest rating, right?

So me and der have come up with a few 2D titles that der should have no problem implementing. After all, he wont be reinventing the wheel with these games, but rather changing skins and themes to public assets. I still want database interaction for these games, so you can save high scores and get achievements for beating games, so then we can get fun with it.

Here are a few titles we'll be looking into for our arcade experiment. Not sure how to classify some of these or even what to rename them as, but here goes:


Action: beat 'em up, contrash, galaga, space invaders, robotron, whack-a-mole
Survival: arkanoid, frogger, pacman, peggle, pong, snake, tetris, tron

Board: checkers, chess, mah jong, scrabble
Card: blackjack, poker, solitaire
Puzzle: connect 4, match-3, memory game, minesweeper
RPG: pokemon, text adventure

Just throwing out some ideas, and der will see what he can do with them.