LM Games — Pocket Arcade
Nineteen retro games, no quarters needed.
Building
What it is
A pocket full of 1980s-style retro games: nineteen titles, simple controls, and that old arcade feel, free to play.
What it is working on
The arcade is built: nineteen retro titles, a free account to keep your place, and a suggestions box for the game you would love to see next. Said plainly: the planned $5 a month paid tier does not work. Charging fails and the unlock after payment never worked, so the paid tier is parked and nothing in this app is sold. The app goes out free, and Layne's own playtest of the nineteen titles is the last gate before the stores. It is not in the stores yet.
Top three issues it answers
- Most phone games are built to sell you something every few minutes.
- The simple, pick-up-and-play arcade feel is gone from modern phones.
- Players have no say in what gets built next.
Top three fixes it makes
- Nineteen retro titles made for quick fun, free to play.
- Simple controls and the old arcade feel, nothing to buy inside.
- A suggestions box in the app, so players ask for the games they want.
Why this really matters
Joy is not a waste of time. This is the house's play room: clean fun a family can share, made by a man who still hears the arcade when he closes his eyes.
Join the Mission: 1,000 True Fans, One Family
This is not a newsletter, and you are not a subscriber. You are family. Around here it is friends, family, and supporters on a mission together, moving onward, and there is a place on the team with your name on it. Put your email in and you are in: when there is something worth your time, a new song, a new book, a film, a course opening its doors, Layne writes to this family himself. Real letters to real family. Your address is never sold, ever.
Joining is free, and it opens your free membership too: the books in the members reader, the full songs as the library connects, and the courses, all free.