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Arkadium Originals
Arkadium Originals are experimental, small-scoped R&D games designed to test interesting game ideas and new technology. For example, "Scramble Cross" is an experiment in how to make a game for people who enjoy word games, but may struggle to finish a crossword puzzle with just the provided clues. "That's the Ticket Trivia" provides a polished mobile-web trivia experience, simultaneously experimenting with user-submitted trivia content while testing newly-developed backend currency systems.
Originals games were developed by Arkadium in an in-house game framework using Pixi.js and Adobe Animate. Each game was developed in one month with a team of three people: programmer, artist, and product owner. I was primarily responsible for programming, but also contributed game design ideas. Care was taken in the code architecture to limit complexity while also allowing flexibility to quickly prototype mechanics, achieved by maintaining a simple game loop that calls into each game system, each responsible for just its own portion of the game state.
https://www.arkadium.com/free-online-games/originals/