the manual

read it once. keep both hands on the controls.

what this place is

cape arcade is an arcade floor for games that live on the blockchain. every cabinet is a real game served from a canister on the internet computer. playing is free, works in your browser, and needs no install and no account.

how to play

walk the floor. every lit cabinet is a real game.
press ▶ INSERT COIN — PLAY. the game opens in a new tab and the play counter ticks up by one.
that's it. no sign-in needed to play. quarters are free here.

what signing in gets you

the INSERT COIN · SIGN IN button uses internet identity (id.ai) — a passkey, not a password. no email, no username, nothing to leak. each site you use it on sees a different anonymous identity.

sign the guestbook
submit your own game to the floor
track your submissions on MY SUBMISSIONS
in games that support it, sign in with the same passkey inside the game and your progress is saved to your identity — any device, any browser, same save.

note: playing never requires sign-in. saving depends on the game — cabinets that save are marked on the floor.

for game makers

build a game that runs on the internet computer,

put it in a canister,

bring us the url via GET IN THE ARCADE. the management reviews everything by hand. if it runs, it hangs.

→ GET IN THE ARCADE → the longer sermon is here

f.a.q.

is it free?: yes. the quarters are decorative.
do you take a cut from the games?: no. your canister, your quarters.
why does everything look like 1997?: because 1997 was the last honest year of the internet. also we like it.
what is a canister?: a small program that lives on the internet computer blockchain and serves this game (or this very page) without any server behind it.
who runs this?: the management. 1933cape studio. we read the guestbook.

— the management, 1933cape studio