From a bygone era of video games where lives were sparse and the term "Save Game" hadn't been heard of.......
From a time when playing video games involved putting real money into a slot on the front of a giant cabinet bigger than you..... came the classic arcade games of yesterday.....
You can relive the joy of these games and also learn how to create them in Swift and SpriteKit as Steve from 'Rae Enterprises' has joined with Michael 'The Architect' from 'The Architect Lab' to bring you an amazing series
Fall in love again with these classic arcade legends
Come with me and enjoy the fun as we recreate these favourite classic games from yesterday for a new generation to enjoy and learn something along the way.....
All games have the same control method of tap and swipe keeping an on going similarity to the series
This is where it all started, the first game I published on the App Store back in 2021. what started as a tutorial class in the basics of Swift and SpriteKit turned into an obsession and started to re-kindle my mis spent youth.
Released in 1978 by Taito in Japan, and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for overseas distribution.
Commonly considered one of the most influential video games of all time, Space Invaders was the first fixed shooter and set the template for the genre.
The increasing speed of the advancing invaders was not a design idea but a flaw in the original hardware that speeded up the drawing of the sprites.
This great clone of the mosts influential vector based game after the original Space War, released in 1979 by Atari
Asteroids was the first arcade game to introduce a High score table where plays could enter three initials, prompting the start of many a challenge across the ages between friends.
Currently in beta testing
This classic and enormously popular video game came out in Japan in 1980.
The yellow, pie-shaped character, who travels around a maze trying to eat dots and avoid four hunting ghosts, quickly became an icon of the 1980s.
You've seen these games, you've played them, now take the next step and learn to create them - and many more by following some amazing tutorials here :-
https://thearchitectlabs.github.io
Michael will be your guide as you recreate your own version of these classic arcade games of yesterday in Swif
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These are faithful recreations of classic games for a new generation - using freely available graphics and sounds - these are in no way associated with any licensed products and made just for fun
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