NEW PROJECT – Javascript Arcade

Category: | Posted on:January 14, 2026

Javascript Arcade is a stylized hub for the JS Canvas projects I’ve been working on.

Objective

I’m re-working my portfolio and needed more casual project to fill it out. The individual arcade games are pretty similar structurally, so it made sense to wrap them up together into a more formalized package for presentation purposes. There;s nothing super impressive here code-wise, but it’s nice that the wrapper uses the Canvas API for the twinkling star effects in the background just like the games do.

Development

This was a very simple project that I finished in like 1 session. More utilitarian than anything else. There are some fun CSS effects to give it an old CRT TV kind of look, but otherwise it is a plain static site that’s just repackaging old work.

Hurdles

Biggest hurdle was just deciding how to present the site stylistically. I’m still not a designer and my projects tend to resemble early-aughts jank. Looks appropriate, if somewhat unpolished.

Takeaways

I might re-use this one again as the basis for a Sanity.io project. I want two of those for my portfolio. The Simple Portfolio project will probably be the other. I just need something with repeated entries that I can plug a simple CMS setup into.

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