Recreating Arcade Games
July 2026 - October 2026
What I aimed for:
Learning outcomes:
Understand the design and break down mechanics
Be more comfortable in Unity
Transfer my skills from GML and learn the basics of C#
Comfortable using the correct syntax
Have learnt how to use prefabs effectively
Broke down designs and recreated them
With this project, I set myself the challenge of reverse engineering 3 of the classic arcade games.
I did this as, in order to be the designer I want to be, I must improve my programming skills and
deconstruct how these games were designed.
Space Invaders
What systems are at play?
The main systems within Space Invaders are
Enemies - there are 4 varying types of enemy all of which attack
Player - Player moves back and fourth
Shields - Protect the player, player uses these to
protect themselves from the enemy attacks.
How did I make it?
Developed ideas into functional enemy designs
Designed varied attacks and iteratively tuned them
Collaborated effectively to align goals for sprints
Overview
Created a GDD to set design pillars and scope
Answered important questions with research
during pre-production.
Had the gameplay loop and mechanics defined
early on
Overview
Created a GDD to set design pillars and scope
Answered important questions with research
during pre-production.
Had the gameplay loop and mechanics defined
early on
How did I make it?
Developed ideas into functional enemy designs
Designed varied attacks and iteratively tuned them
Collaborated effectively to align goals for sprints
What systems are at play?
Designed the cameras behaviour to change
by using a state machine.
Created interactive UI
Improved game feel
Pong
Overview
to be continued
How did I make it
to be continued
What systems are at play?
to be continued
Snake