Jacob Kipfing, a developer who helped work on the game, cited many of the Dreamcast games from the early 2000s as large influencers, highlighting games such as Jet Set Radio and Rez as prime examples. The phone mechanic also takes inspiration from online Flash-based titles and role-playing games such as Pokémon, with several upgrades that can be purchased using earned currency. An in-game cell phone is constantly present on-screen, having stemmed from the concept of a character who could "skate around in a big desert, while trying to play a cellphone game." This cell phone is used to receive missions, as well as containing Twitter integration which can be used to tweet screenshots taken in-game, and a minigame titled Mirage Cat which was originally developed separately with the intent of being its own arcade game. The title is a pun on the words "zine" (a slang term referring to a magazine) and "zenith" the player, controlling a magazine deliverer, flies throughout the desertlike setting and delivers magazines to people in order to show them what the real world is like. The game is a cel-shaded 3D skate game, set in a futuristic world in which the entire world has been absorbed within a mobile game, brainwashing all of its inhabitants. In 2012, Arcane Kids developed Zineth as a student thesis in experimental game design. Esposito created the game in the summer of 2010 while visiting Madrid, with his colleague, Manuel Pardo, programming the game in Game Maker and assisting with level design. Among these was Nudo, a platform-puzzle title described as "a platformer on top of a rubik's cube" which was one of the first Arcane Kids games according to the team. The team began developing their own games for the arcade, in addition to featuring games from other developers on the campus, opting to try and develop a new game directly before each event at the venue, according to Honor.
According to the team in an online chat interview for Sex Magazine, the title "Arcane Kids" was an ominous phrase written on a rewritable compact disc that they had found lying on the ground. In 2010, the team formed the Arcane Kids Arcade, a homemade arcade at Ground Zero that was intended as a space for developers to showcase their games. After meeting each other, the group decided to uptake the development of video games, taking inspiration from D.I.Y. History Creation, Arcane Kids Arcade and Zineth (2010–2012) Īrcane Kids was first founded at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute by Ben Esposito, Russell Honor, and Yuliy Vigdorchcik, who met at Ground Zero, an on-campus DIY music venue. Despite this there has been no official announcement as to if the studio has been dissolved. Sometime around 2017 the members of Arcane kids split with members either now developing games to be published by Annapurna Interactive, developing their own self-published indie projects or generally leaving game development all together. In 2015 Arcane Kids released Sonic Dreams Collection, an unofficial game based on Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog, and CRAP! No One Loves Me, a racing game that was commissioned by Fantastic Arcade. In 2013, Arcane Kids released Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective, an ironic tribute to Bubsy 3D. The following year, Arcane Kids revealed Perfect Stride, a skating game that was never officially released though did have an alpha, which depicts what would have happened if Tony Hawk had never performed the 900 skating move.
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Zineth was released in 2012 for Windows and Macintosh PCs, and went on to win the award for Best Student Project in the Independent Games Festival at the Game Developers Conference. After creating and featuring several small games at the Arcane Kids Arcade, the group of students developed Zineth, an open-ended skating game, as a student project in experimental video game design. The team first met in college at Ground Zero, an on-campus DIY music club at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where they decided to start developing video games for fun, forming a homemade arcade at the club where they, alongside other student developers, could showcase game projects.
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The name "Arcane Kids" was derived from a mysterious rewritable compact disc with the phrase inscribed on top of it, which was found lying in a patch of dirt. As of 2015, the group consisted of 5 members, including Ben Esposito, Russell Honor, Tom Astle, Jacob Knipfing, and Yuliy Vigdorchik. They are a collective of developers, largely known for creating surreal and humorous video games using the Unity engine.
Arcane Kids is an independent video game studio based in Los Angeles, California.
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