404 — Colony Arcade

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There’s no page here. … There never was.

The wizard will walk you back.

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Colony presents

The Arcade

now with a wizard...

Direction

Game Direction

Robbie Hall

Creative Direction

Robbie Hall

Technical Direction

Robbie Hall · Claude

Design

Game Design

Robbie Hall · Claude

UI & UX Design

Robbie Hall

Systems Design & Architecture

Robbie Hall · Claude

Difficulty Tuning

Robbie Hall

(he insisted)

Engineering

Engineering & Systems Development

Robbie Hall · Claude

Arcade Systems

Robbie Hall · Claude

Audio Engine

Robbie Hall · Claude

Build Pipeline & Tooling

Robbie Hall · Claude

The One Who Reviews Locally Before Anything Ships

Robbie Hall

Art

Art Direction

Robbie Hall

Card & Deck Design

Robbie Hall

Illustration Direction

Robbie Hall

Phillip the Wise — Character Design

Robbie Hall · Claude

Scenes & Rooms

Robbie Hall · Claude

Seasonal Dressings

Robbie Hall · Claude

Writing

Narrative Design

Robbie Hall · Claude

Wizard Dialogue

Robbie Hall · Claude

Voice Direction

Robbie Hall

These Credits

Claude

(under protest from Phillip)

Audio

Sound Design

Robbie Hall · Claude

Audio Production

Robbie Hall

Voice of Phillip the Wise

Phillip the Wise

Lute Performance

Phillip the Wise

(uncredited at his request)

Production

Robbie Hall

Quality Assurance

Rachel · Robbie Hall · Claude

Quality Control

Rachel · Nick

Playtesting

The Colony Team

Community & High-Score Board Moderation

Robbie Hall

Tools of the Trade

Claude
ElevenLabs
Manus
Supabase
Cloudflare

Special Thanks

Special thanks to Rachel, for having to hear the endless audio and music tests, thousands of wizard dialogue lines from an office across the hall without knowing what I was building, and for always being an amazing partner and QA tester; to The Colony Team, for continuing to entertain the strange ideas that somehow become projects like this; to Nick, the first name on the board and a great colleague through experiments, builds, fixes, and more questionable decisions than we can reasonably count; to the owls, all three of them, for keeping watch over the place and being awesome mascots for our team; to The Polycade, where some of this spirit already lives and where we’ll see you in the cabinet; to the NAS build, which inspired this entire project... you walked so this could run; to the season when I first made the “I’m a developer, not a wizard” sticker, which all these years later turned out to be considerably less accurate than expected; to the 404 page, for holding the door open long enough for an entire arcade to move in.

and finally... to you. You could have left. You didn’t. You stayed. Thank you. Truly.

At Colony, we love to create simply because we can.
This is one of those things.

Colony hopes you have enjoyed this picture...

Creative minds, digital solutions.COLONY

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