Media items are what powers Anarchy Arcade. They could be a game, a movie, a website, a video stream; absolutely anything.
In Anarchy Arcade, media items are represented by Item Profiles.
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These basic properties are used to create the media-rich interactive environments in Anarchy Arcade.
A cabinet is a three-dimensional model that has a media item bound to it. It uses the basic properties of the item to decoreate the cabinet with images and videos. Since the cabinet is 3D and can launch the media item, it is often referred to as a "3D Shortcut."
Web content, videos, and images can be displayed on the cabinet's screen. You also interact with the cabinet's screen to customize the media item that is bound to it.
Absolutely everything you spawn in Anarchy Arcade is a 3D Shortcut and can be customized to look and behave exactly as you wish.
Anarchy Arcade is a 3D replacement for your boring desktop wallpaper image.
It is a game/utility that mixes your real-life media with the virtual world to create a personalized 3D representation of your media collection and gaming career.
It is a 3D virtual world that grows with your media colleciton and can be used to actually launch and play the games and movies you love. It's so customizable that you could even use it as your personal 3D desktop.
You could then invite your friends over to check out your media colleciton and Anarchy Arcade makes it easy for them to get your favorite media items from the sites that they like to use.
In Anarchy Arcade you spawn virtual representations of real-life games, movies, TV shows, etc. It is extremely open-ended.
Basically you can spawn anything you can imagine. Seriously. You can spawn a home video that you made yourself, or you can spawn the latest Star Wars movie. You can spawn a picture right off of your PC, or a picture of Miley Cyrus from the internet. You can spawn a game from your PC game library, or spawn a game from a long-extinct console system from the past.
You are not limited in any way what so ever. You can even spawn things that haven't been released yet, or fictional things that never existed in the first place.
The objects you place in your arcade are actually special shortcuts. So right off the bat, Anarchy Arcade can launch anything that a normal shortcut can.
That's a lot of stuff, but it's not everything. That's why Anarchy Arcade has been designed to support abnormal shortcuts as well.
Some games require a 3rd party program to play such as: Steam, Origin, or an emulator. No problem; Anarchy Arcade handles these with ease.
You can even configure Anarchy Arcade to play movies from your Netflix, control your DVR in your living room, or playback videos on completely different screens.
Yes, Anarchy Arcade is perfectly legal because it shares your media the right way.
Instead of sending your copy of the media item, Anarchy Arcade just sends the basic properties of it. This includes the title and type, but also screenshots, posters, and video trailers for it.
Then, on your friend's end, Anarchy Arcade is able to generate links to your friend's favorite sties where they can go to buy and/or download the media item like usual.
Anarchy Arcade helps you share your favorite media with your friends and gets it into their hands with just a couple clicks in a completely legal way. And it does this without forcing them to use any strange sites that they're not accostomed to.
Anarchy Arcade gets its name because of the lack of restrictions that are placed on the player.
Similar products often restrict the player to games only from a certain manufacturer or only allow you to shop from their own store. That is NOT how it works in Anarchy Arcade.
It has been designed to give you absolute freedom over what and how you use it. The game doesn't try to control you; you control the game. You decide what to spawn. You decide which websites and stores to link to.
Anarchy Arcade is completely non-restrictive. You are in control.
A little of both.
First, it is a game because it exists to entertain you. It has gameplay comparable to many other games, but with an amazing twist; you are spawning real-life games & movies in your virtual arcade... that you can actually play!
This is only possible because of how Anarchy Arcade was designed. It doesn't come with a huge library of games and movies. In fact, it doesn't come with any media at all.
100% of the media used in Anarchy Arcade is generated by the player; with a lot of help from Anarchy Arcade of course.
As a program, Anarchy Arcade manages your personal media library and puts all of your games, movies, websites, and other media right at your fingertips. It makes them look pretty by finding HD images and videos to use on their 3D shortcuts. And finally it organizes your favorite stuff in a brand new way; by physical location rather than lists.
Yes. Similar games/programs have been attempted in the past; however, they all sucked. Seriously. I tried them all, and wasn't happy with any of them. Each one did something terribly wrong which broke the whole concept.
The most common mistake among them was being too restrictive for one reason or another. Other blunders include being too difficult to use, and not game-like enough.
The ones put out by the big-name companies like Sony and Microsoft seemed only concerned with making them money. They force you to shop from their stores and you can only launch their own products from the game.
The smaller, independently developed ones usually suffered from being too difficult to use or were built on ugly old graphics engines. They tried to deliver the right experience, but fell short due to technical limitations or bad interface design.
Anarchy Arcade is non-restrictive, easy to use, built on a state-of-the-art graphics engine, has progressive gameplay, and always puts the user first. These are all essential to make the concept work. No other program combines them all like Anarchy Arcade does.
Anarchy Arcade doesn't make you learn new programs. All of your shortcuts open exactly the way that you're used to them opening.
Anarchy Arcade is built on the Source engine, which has one of the most active modding communities in the world. It has a full set of editing tools and tutorials plus a huge community of talented people supporting it.
Anarchy Arcade is compatible with thousands of addons like props and maps from other Source engine games. You can even build your arcades in some of your favorite maps from Counter-Strike and Team Fortress!
Anarchy Arcade is distributed on Steam and makes full use of Steamworks for promoting and distributing user generated content. It has a full-featured Steam Workshop.
Anarchy Arcade has top-of-the-line Oculus Rift support and is optimized for the VR experience.
Anarchy Arcade was designed to be a social experience. Allowing you to host a multiplayer arcade and walk around your media collection with your friends was essential. However, certain issues needed to e resolved to make it work as you might expect.
The first thing to understand is that hosting a multiplayer game does NOT mean your friends can access your computer. The only files that are sent to your friends for each shortcut are 2 thumbnail images and a text file describing what the shortcut launches. You don't send them the actual programs that the shortcuts point to; they decided where to get those from.
Secondly, if you own a game on Steam while your friend owns it on Origin, Anarchy Arcade is smart enough to let the same cabinet launch the game for either of you. This is important because people usually don't get all their games from the same places as their friends.
Lastly, if there is a game or movie in your friend's arcade that you don't own yet, Anarchy Arcade generates a list of links to where you can buy or download the media. These links are generated from your personal preferences; allowing you to shop/download from your favorite websites just like you are used to doing.
I, Elijah Newman-Gomez, am independently developing Anarchy Arcade. I am a programmer and an artist. I play a lot of video games, watch a lot of movies, and do tons of programming. I am creating Anarchy Arcade because I was not satisfied with any of the alternatives out there, and I want to share the entertaining experience that it provides with everyone else.
I've been creating maps and mods for the gaming community for many years. You can check out some more of my work at: http://www.moddb.com/members/sm-sith-lord/blogs/project-list
While I am developing Anarchy Arcade primarily on my own, there are members of the community who donated their time & skills to help make Anarchy Arcade what it is today. The full credits are listed on the Credits screen in-game, or on the News section of this website. Their contributions are greatly appreciated.
Anarchy Arcade is developed personally by myself without any real budget at all.
My efforts are supported by monthly PayPal donations from the actual users, thank you for your support!
This month I am suspending PayPal donations and running a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money I need to remain in full-time development for an additional month.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aarcade/3d-vr-desktop-and-multiplayer-web-w-oculus-anarchy
Thank you for showing interest in the project. There are many ways you can support the development of Anarchy Arcade:
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