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Physics & components
Rigidbodies, colliders, triggers and gravity. Drop on a player controller and tune its speed on a card; the card is a real script you can open and edit.
Arcadia Studio · Free game engine for Windows
Build the game.
Share it
A visual game engine that does the hard parts for you. Draw your screens, sprites and levels, add physics, music and a little JavaScript, and play it straight away. Then publish it to the Arcadia arcade, where anyone can play it in their browser, or export it for the web, Windows, Mac and Linux.
Windows 10 / 11FreeWeb · Windows · Mac · LinuxPublishes to Arcadia
How it works
Draw it. Play it. Share it.
If making a game means a week of setup before the fun part, that sounds like next week's project.
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Draw your game.Lay out screens on a canvas, paint levels with tilemaps, and draw sprites in the built-in pixel editor. Buttons, labels, sliders and panels are there for menus and HUDs.
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Make it move.Give things physics, colliders and gravity, map keys and gamepads to inputs, and add ready-made behaviour cards. Every card writes a plain script you can open and change.
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Make it sound right.Write chiptune songs in the Music maker (play them on your keyboard, record, import MIDI) and make game sounds in the Sound effect maker.
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Play it right away.Preview runs the game on your desktop with a live console, so you can try every change as you make it.
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Share it.Publish to Arcadia in a few clicks and send people a link, or export a web page, a tiny Windows app, or apps for Mac and Linux.
What's in the box
A whole game engine. No setup.
Everything from the first sprite to the finished game is in one app: the art tools, the sound tools, physics, input and scripting. Use the visual tools for most of it and JavaScript when you want more.
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Tilemaps & camera
Paint levels from a tile sheet, mark the solid tiles, and let the camera scroll and zoom while your score and lives stay pinned to the screen.
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Pixel art & sprites
A pixel editor with layers, mirror drawing and animation frames, and a sprite sheet editor that turns frames into clips like idle, run and jump.
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Music & sound effects
An 8-bit Music maker with instruments, a piano roll, recording and MIDI import, plus a Sound effect maker for jumps, coins and explosions.
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Animation, particles & shaders
Keyframe animations, state graphs for how things behave, particle effects and shaders, all set up visually.
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Keyboard & gamepad
Named inputs like jump and left, with presets for keyboard, Xbox and PlayStation pads, and on-screen buttons for touch screens.
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A proper canvas
Layers, groups, panels, anchors that adapt to any window, align and distribute, reusable components, and 200 steps of undo.
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JavaScript when you want it
Built-in actions cover the common stuff. For the rest, scripts run every tick or on each key press, with a simple API for the screen, physics and input.
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Build with an AI assistant
Click Start MCP server and let Claude or another MCP assistant add controls, write scripts and run Preview with you. Every change can be undone.
Publish & share
Your game, in the arcade, in one click.
Arcadia Studio publishes straight to Arcadia, a community arcade of indie browser games. Players find your game, play it with no install, rate it, comment on it and chase your leaderboard. It's free.
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Link once.Approve a short code on the arcade. You never type your password into the app.
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Capture a cover from Preview.Play to a good moment and click. Add a title, genres and how to play.
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A leaderboard, no code.Pick the variable that holds the score and when a run ends. Arcadia keeps the board.
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Check, then publish.The arcade's checks run before you upload, so there are no surprises.
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Update in one click.The next publish updates the same game. Your players, ratings and leaderboard stay.
Export
Ship it anywhere.
The same project exports to every format, with the same layout, physics, scripts and sound. The Export dialog tells you how big each one comes out.
Web pageA folder you can upload to any website, or one HTML file with everything inside, easy to email.
Windows appUnzip and run: under 1 MB plus your game, using the Edge engine that comes with Windows.
Mac & LinuxElectron apps for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel) and Linux, built from your Windows PC.
ArcadiaPublished to the arcade, where anyone can play it in a browser and share it with a link.
Minecraft too
Minecraft screens, drawn, not hand-coded.
Arcadia Studio started as a screen designer for Minecraft, and it still is one. Build menus, dashboards, shops and control panels for Minecraft Java 1.21.1 with NeoForge, with no Java screen classes.
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Items & shops
Browse real Minecraft and modded items, drop in their icons, and build scrollable shops and inventories.
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Server-authoritative
The client only reports what was clicked. The server checks sessions, permissions and cooldowns, so nobody gets more than they should.
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Test in the real game
One button launches Minecraft 1.21.1 with your project installed. Export a single mod JAR when it's done, with KubeJS support included.
Download
Get Arcadia Studio .
Both downloads contain the same app with its own .NET runtime built in. Pick the installer for a normal Windows install, or the portable ZIP to run it from any folder.
RecommendedSETUP.EXE
Windows installer
Installs for your user account, no admin rights needed. Adds a Start-menu shortcut and opens
.arcadia projects on double-click (older .wysicraftproj projects open too).
Upgrade by running a newer installer.
Start menuFile associationClean uninstall
PortableZIP
Portable ZIP
No installation. Extract anywhere and run Designer\ArcadiaStudio.exe. Keep the folders
together: the Minecraft runtime and test environment are included.
No installUSB friendlyEverything included
Release notes and older versions on GitHub ↗
To make gamesWindows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Nothing else to install.
To play themAny modern browser for web games and Arcadia, or the exported app on Windows, Mac or Linux.
For MinecraftMinecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1.250+, and Java 21 to test from the editor.