Anarchy Arcade

Maintenance Update

Prototype users, rejoice! This patch will fix some major bugs that have arisen recently in the retired prototype.

Head to the GameJolt profile to get your hands on the update!

The source code of the Steam version of Anarchy Arcade is a completely different branch than the prototype, so going back to update the prototype is not something I do very lightly. However, the way that…

This past week the web data scraping system has continued to be expanded and enhanced.  I implemented a way for a scraper to specify how confident it is that it has found quality content for each of the item’s fields.  I also implemented a way for a scraper to suggest yet another scraper be ran afterwards to fill in fields that still need content. For example, lets say that you’re watching a…

This week I started towards the goal of getting a working “Create New Item” system into the Steam version of Anarchy Arcade.  A very important part of the Create New Item system is AArcade’s ability to go onto the web and automatically find boxart, wallpapers, and video trailers for the media items that are spawned in it.  This was done in the prototype by the “scrapers.”  In the Steam version,…

Hello fellow arcade-goers! This week of Anarchy Arcade development was spent prototyping the all-new Inventory App (formally known as the Library Browser) that gets displayed on your in-game virtual phone and acts as the HTML-powered user interface to access all of your media on your PC and on the world-wide web.

Now, it’s time to get a little technical.  If you’re not interested in coding or…

This week I optimized the back-end AArcade JavaScript API and the thumbnail image loading system.  The image loading system is just one of the many systems that use the AArcade JavaScript API to power their functionality.  Making sure that the Chromium core and the AArcade JavaScript API are robust enough to handle everything that they are going to be used for is vital at this stage of…

Weeks 5 & 5

After a lot of studying my own flowcharts, notes, and code from a few months ago, I am back up to speed with development.  As you know, the Steam version is a completely new build of Anarchy Arcade that is written from the ground-up.  Right now I’m pounding away at back-end features, so there’s not a lot to show visually yet.

This week started off with me making flowcharts and modifying UML…

The past two months I spent running/promoting the Kickstarter campaign with lots of news articles and prototype updates.  But now that the Kickstarter is concluded, it’s time for me to get back to coding right where I left off about two months ago.

I’m trying to get to the part where Anarchy Arcade will download your images from URLs again, but first I need to code in the part that resolves an…

Anarchy Arcade Development: Week 1

Development on the Steam version of Anarchy Arcade is in progress.  Many of the great new features…

Steamworks Player Hubs

Bring your Steam account to life in the virtual world.  Player hubs are like game hubs, but instead…

Steamworks Features

After Anarchy Arcade is greenlit, it gets access to Steamworks features.

This means all of the…