Video games · Management sim Arcadium: a 3D arcade sim that plays in the browser
Buy machines, serve the neighborhood, pay the loan and balance the till
Arcadium · Video games · Management sim
Your own arcade, in first person
A management sim you play in the browser: you start with empty premises and €5,000, buy arcade cabinets, PCs and consoles, place every piece of furniture, raise the shutter, charge your customers, mop, repair and balance the till at closing time. It used to be a classic-games archive; now it is a game, and its machines run games from that archive.
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Turn Arcadium, a classic-games archive, into a game of its own: a 3D, first-person simulator that plays in the browser (with WebGL) with nothing to install, an economy that makes sense from one day to the next, and machines that run real games from the archive.
We built it with Three.js: a 3D arcade you walk around with WASD, where machines are bought and placed under real space rules (clear aisles, a free entrance) and run games from the archive with EmulatorJS. Customers play, pay and sometimes cause trouble, and there are loans with installments and interest, daily contracts, LAN parties and a career ladder. Your game is saved in your own browser.
What we built for Arcadium
A first-person 3D arcade: buy, place and upgrade every machine, and renovate the space, under space rules
A full economy: daily till, fixed costs, 16-installment loans with interest, rentals and returns
A 7-rank career with contracts, incidents, LAN parties and upkeep with a mop and a workbench
The Arcadium project in numbers
in starting capital, and empty premises
career ranks, starting at “Arcade apprentice”
downloads: it plays in the browser and saves there too
What happened to Arcadium after launch
It is the clearest proof that a website can be a whole video game: real-time 3D, a management interface and a saved game, nothing to install. And the economy is built so every decision has weight: a €4,000 loan gets the doors open sooner, but the first installment is due at the next day's close.
The tech behind Arcadium
Chosen for the job, not the hype. Built on Custom 3D game (Three.js).
What this took
We build these every week. This is the service that made it:
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