The Verge Festival is featuring six Australian games made by students and recent graduates.

We put together The Arcade to celebrate them. I was asked to curate the games exhibition.

I had a lot of fun writing the intro screen (above), and working out how to make the games quit automatically if left alone for too long. Also, I printed an instruction telling people how to quit games, a feature that is often not included.

The games on exhibition were:

Ascoman Swings

▴ Ascoman Swings, by Michael Chu

Bermuda

▴ Bermuda, by Marcus Lam

Enterchained

▴ Enterchained, by Featherweight Games (Dylan Bevis, Tim Kaldor, Yosha Noesjirwan)

Fatal Theory

▴ Fatal Theory, by 2 Hit Studios

Icarus

▴ Icarus, by nvekm

Super Adventure Pals 2

▴ Super Adventure Pals 2, by Julian Wilton