I’m working on a series of games that are clones of 80’s arcade classics. I think that I will eventually release them as an open source collection, but I’m also thinking about using them in a future project. These games are fun little challenges that occasionally give me a little break from larger projects. I always seem to learn something new when I work on one.
Doolin Digitron
This is my own Pong clone. The title is inspired by the names of a few of those 1970’s Pong clones, such as the Telstar and Colortron. For now it plays only the default, original Pong game, but I’m planning to add some of the variations that became commonplace.
For this game and probably the others, I’m also adding an option for using shaders to create the CRT television bulge distortion, interlacing and chromatic aberration.
MeteoSmash
This is another Astrosmash clone, similar to the one I’m working on for the MakerBUINO version. The major difference, of course, is color.