Arcade Commons

An event flyer. The text reads: Doom Drop cabinet debut Friday March 13th, 7PM Featuring a tourney with prizes followed by music DJ Softserve presenting “Survival” Goth, heavy, industrial set by RX-69 Wonderville 1186 Broadway BK - 21+ FREE

An arcade cabinet featuring side art of a hooded figure

Doom Drop arcade cabinet release party at @wonderville.nyc in one week, on Friday the 13th! 🤘

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This is TOMORROW!

Flier for the Nothing Good Can Come of This relaunch at Wonderville, on Saturday, Feb 21st at 6:30pm

The refurbishment of Nothing Good Can Come Of This is complete, thanks to @chriscariot.bsky.social, @alexpanait.bsky.social, @mattfryed.bsky.social and developer Michael Consoli!

Come through @wonderville.nyc on Sat. Feb 21st for a celebration featuring new game modes, tournament, and prizes!

Exciting news: @allenriley.com and I will be showing Hypnogenesis at the Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social

We'll be talking about using video synthesis techniques to make video feedback a core gameplay mechanic.

We'd love to show the game at your GDC party! Drop us a line!

Flier for the Nothing Good Can Come of This relaunch at Wonderville, on Saturday, Feb 21st at 6:30pm

The refurbishment of Nothing Good Can Come Of This is complete, thanks to @chriscariot.bsky.social, @alexpanait.bsky.social, @mattfryed.bsky.social and developer Michael Consoli!

Come through @wonderville.nyc on Sat. Feb 21st for a celebration featuring new game modes, tournament, and prizes!

Feb 12 is the next play test. Open to the public, but you must be on the security list.

More news to come on that in the future!

Finally got the poster for It’s Bunlith! in a nice frame, thanks to @b0tster.yeag.gay for signing it at MAGFest! (and @arcadecommons.org for the awesome setup they had there!)

#MAGFest is a reminder of why we love this space so much.

So many brilliant indie devs, incredible conversations, and genuinely good humans building games they care about.

Feeling grateful, inspired, and very excited for what’s coming next. 💙🎮

#IndieGames #GameCommunity

Help Tuppy Run The Merch Booth by AndyMakes Play in your browser

Every year I make a little game for my partner's birthday, usually staring our dog Tuppy.

This year I asked... could our dog run the @arcadecommons.org merch stand at @magfest.org?

You can play it here: andymakes.itch.io/help-tuppy-r...
(requires keyboard)

Art by @chriscariot.bsky.social

Dyebreaker at MAGFest 2026.

New from Indie Arcade Wave: Dyebreaker at MAGFest 2026. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e6BY_zkON1w

A modern looking desk with knickknacks strewn about with only the glow of a single desk lamp illuminating. The player sits down at a retro styled computer to play

A player hunched over scraps of paper with glyphs and drawings to try and decipher the text in the game. The game is played on a small CRT display. A box reads "THIS SCRAP PAPER IS NOT TRASH PLEASE DONT THROW AWAY"

A custom pinball and air hockey table combination with spinning gears in the center to create more random interactions. The player in cosplay at the opposite end has their mouth agape in a surprised and happy expression

A person playing the nightmare kart arcade machine. The machine has a stained glass illuminated logo at the top and a fake fireplace at the bottom. The cabinet is styled in a black gothic church style

The indie arcade at magfest is spectacular as always. People immersed in the unique experiences offered on custom hardware, created with love and passion for the medium

#photography #magfest #magfest26 #supermagfest #indie #indiegames #eventphotography #arcade

A custom arcade cabinet for Nightmare Kart, being played by slowbeef

Nightmare Kart custom cab feat. @slowbeef.bsky.social

calling all nyc tech sickos: please introduce me and @arcadecommons.org to your "i got a guy" e-waste salvaging connection who knows to call you when they come across That Gem.

do we have a ton of space? god no. but we want to help cool pieces of tech history find new life/homes!

Collage image showing several projects I worked on this year

I finally got around to writing up my 2025 year-in-review post.

This year I worked on high speed mutts, Robotron-inspired CRT psychedelia (with @allenriley.bsky.social), another alt control jam (with @mtylpg.bsky.social & @arcadecommons.org) among many others!

blog.emma.coop/andy/andys-2...

Black and white photo of jane holding a laptop while I talk on a mic

color photo of jane and I looking off to the tournament on the left

Two rad pictures of @jfriedhoff.bsky.social and I running tournaments for @arcadecommons.org at @magfest.org courtesy of Nick Santaniello!

its post magfest so now I can showoff my Qualia Machine, lovingly built & designed by @blazinkarp.bsky.social inspired by glass teletypes and retro PC from a future that doesn't exist yet. The booth was decorated by me to reflect a cubicle inside an Intellica office. Lots of secrets there too...

I wanted to build a console for the game jam games that would eventually be wall-mounted and live at @wonderville.nyc Here's a demonstration of how it works showing Up To Go Down by @dxtr.se and Wesna

Flip Out! - An Alt Ctrl Jam A game jam from 2025-10-16 to 2025-10-26 hosted by Matt! & AndyMakes. Welcome to Flip Out, an alt ctrl game jam and controller workshop by the MAGFest Indie Arcade and Arcade Commons ! Join us for a r...

In late 2025 @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social teamed up with @arcadecommons.org to run a game jam called Flip Out - games made using 5 toggle switches. This is the second alt.ctrl game jam following 2024's Lever Up jam.

You can play the games made from this jam here:
itch.io/jam/flip-out

QUALIA IS ALIVE ‼️ PLAY IT NOW ‼️

my first game is out now! qualia is about a lot of things: ai, robots, depression, death, but those are just what it means to me. i hope, like qualia itself, this game means something to you. thank you so much for playing. ♥️

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walkthrough of the @arcadecommons.org space at MAGFest 2026. an absolutely OP lineup this and every year

players on EVERY game, devs standing around talking to players, commander keen piloting a cheeseburger

Hello new followers! It was so nice meeting so many of you at MAG 26! If you wanna keep the conversation going and stay in touch, consider joining our discord!

discord.gg/M32eyPRmGF

Of course, always have to give it up for the @arcadecommons.org and @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social people.

I've said this during the con, but I've been going to this for 10+ years. To see it go from a little section in the expo hall to becoming one of the main pillars of the con is inspiring.

And of course the cabinet I design with @arcadecommons.org WeatherSys Admin!!

And of course, thank you so much as always to the @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social team for having and supporting us. Their commitment to fostering a space for joy and community inspires us and we certainly couldn't do it without them.

Another @magfest.org down! Thank you for sharing in the joy of independent arcade gaming with us. If you enjoyed any of the games in our collection, checked out our community showcase, stopped by and chatted with us, or just took in the vibes - thank you so much. See you next year!

the nightmare kart arcade cabined torn down in preparation for shipping

AND THATS A WRAP!

561 races!
7,253 boosts!
2,616.4 km collectively traveled
569 deaths!!

thank you all SO much for stopping by!! absolutely FLOORED by the volume of ppl who wanted to play and say hi ❤️🖤

hopefully ill see you all next year!!! 😃🐇‼️

Nightmare Kart machine

I'm at the arcade, I'm at yeag, I'm at the combination arcade and @b0tster.yeag.gay yeag

🙏🙏🙏