Arcade Lab

Every game studio starts with a name and a first day. Today you meet Coach, your AI game-making partner, pick your studio name, make a logo, and run a real game on your computer. Bring a grown-up for the setup part.

Real arcades were full of games you could learn in ten seconds. You'll build five of them — catching, dodging, bouncing, clicking, and remixing — and every one teaches you a new way to talk to Coach. No pictures yet. Just shapes, speed, and fun.

Now your favorite game gets real art from ChatGPT, sound effects your computer builds out of math, and the juice that makes games feel amazing. You'll also meet your Studio Server — a little helper program on your own computer that hands files to the browser, so pictures are allowed into your game.

Jumping. Enemies. Coins, keys, and doors. Three levels that get harder just right. This is the world where you build a game your friends will actually want to play — and then you ship it.

You've had a game idea in your head for a while. This is where it comes out. A slice is the smallest version of your game that's still fun. Coach interviews you, you write a concept card, you pick the smallest version that's still fun, and you build it with everything you've learned.