Skoden Arcade

One-person game studio

Skoden Arcade

Small games with big feelings. This is where I share them and show how each one is coming along.

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The shelf

Games

They're all still growing, and you can play the current version of each one right now.

Skoden!

Comedy RPG

A crude comedy RPG set on a made-up Coast Salish reservation. Build your crew, win your fights, and pick up Lushootseed words and phrases as you play.

  • Crude humor
  • Learn Lushootseed
  • Hidden secrets
Work in progressPlay current build

A Fed Soul

Frontline cooking

Cook for soldiers on the frontlines of real wars. Head out to gather ingredients, fight your way back, and cook at base camp with no timer rushing you. Five wars to cook through, starting with World War II.

  • Five wars
  • Online co-op
  • Untimed cooking
  • Low-poly 3D
  • Real war stories
  • Dog companion
Work in progressPlay current build

Come Here, Eat

Story game

A story told in episodes where your choices matter and you learn Lushootseed along the way. Make your own character and play to a lighthearted drum soundtrack.

  • 4 episodes
  • Learn Lushootseed
  • Custom character
  • 5 mini-games
  • Drum music
Work in progressPlay current build

Night Swing

City runner

Swing across a city at night. Hold to grapple a rooftop, let go to fly, and stomp patrol drones on your way down. See how far you get on three lives.

  • One-touch controls
  • Swing physics
  • High score chase
Side projectPlay Night Swing

Make your own

Toolbox

The little tools I use to make characters and sound for my games. They're free to play with.

Character creator

Cutout Character Workshop

Put together your own cutout-style character, piece by piece.

Open workshop

Music maker

Chiptune Loop Lab

Tap to compose retro game loops with melody, harmony, bass and drums, then save them as sound files.

Open loop lab

Sound effects

Button Mash Soundboard

Sixteen pads, four sound packs, a loop recorder and a combo builder for game sounds.

Open soundboard

How it's going

Save log

Where each game stands, and the choices that got it there.

Skoden!

File 1
  1. Started out as Cul-de-Sac Crusade, a paper-cutout RPG with turn-based battles
  2. Wrote the story: neighborhood kids against a glamping takeover
  3. Built a character creator and achievements
  4. Worked in Lushootseed words and phrases to learn as you play
  5. Gave the boss fights their own songs
  6. Grew it past 5,400 lines of code
  7. Ran a full QA audit and wrote a dev checklist
  8. Renamed it Skoden!
  9. Hiding a secret character and a secret super boss
  10. Polish overhaul, one stage at a time, with a backup saved before each stage
  11. Cleaner art, more expressions and animations, battles that hit harder

A Fed Soul

File 2
  1. Started out as Chow Line, a 2D kitchen game about the 1914 Christmas Truce
  2. Rebuilt it so you walk around with a joystick
  3. Grew it into A Fed Soul: pick an era, pick a side, make your character
  4. Started with World War II and a first recipe of potato soup with baguette
  5. Added a dog who follows you and revives you
  6. Made cooking untimed, with hands-on mini-games at base camp
  7. Rebuilt the world in low-poly 3D: gritty on the battlefield, soft and painterly at camp
  8. Polish pass: lighting, smoother movement, manual aiming, original music, saving, settings
  9. Added online co-op with room codes
  10. Brought in the pixel character style from Skoden!
  11. Opened all five wars: World War I, the Civil War, World War II, Korea and Vietnam
  12. Added a Field Journal that fills up with real history as you play

Come Here, Eat

File 3
  1. Built the story around my own Lushootseed word bank of 500+ words and phrases
  2. Wrote the first three episodes, starting with a late ferry, a loud auntie and a grandma who only speaks Lushootseed
  3. Added timed choices that characters remember
  4. Added the Basket, which keeps every word you learn and how to say it
  5. Built five mini-games: kitchen ticket rush, low-tide memory match, canoe paddling, fry bread counting and find the cat
  6. Added a character creator with the colors named in Lushootseed
  7. Added hand-drum music, then swapped a track that sounded creepy for an upbeat groove
  8. Wrote Episode 4, set at a pow wow
  9. Added a tappable alphabet with 39 recorded letter sounds
  10. Added practice by category, plus high-contrast and big-button settings
  11. Added more than one ending
  12. Episode 5 and side quests: new places to explore, a journal and about 14 new characters

Night Swing

File 4
  1. Built in one sitting as a swing-through-the-city runner
  2. Designed an original hero: teal suit, glowing orange visor, trailing scarf
  3. Tuned the swing so letting go on the upswing launches you
  4. Added drones to stomp, sparks to grab, three lives and a saved best score

Player one

About me

I am just an average gal who loves to cook, play games and learn new things! I am a natural-born Washingtonian.

Food is definitely a passion of mine, and it's a huge part of my games. There's a frybread pan, there's A Fed Soul, where you make food, and there are hints of it throughout everything else.

I have made most of this on my iPhone 13, using AI to help create the games. I made the basis of each one, such as the story, how the characters look and act, the themes and the type of music. And of course, a large part of all this is AI.

Right now I'm saving up for a decent PC so I can learn to code and have access to more tools. I'm a total newb at all of this, so I'm learning as I go 😂

I am Native American, and I have tried incorporating Lushootseed, the language of my tribe, into my games. I want to end up creating a game I can share with my people to help our younger generations learn the language.

I love cats and have three of my own, and I couldn't be happier. I also love poetry and writing.

Questions, ideas or Lushootseed corrections? Email me at skodenarcade@gmail.com

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Games on the shelf
4
Made by
One gal, with help from AI
Built on
An iPhone 13
Based in
Washington state
Day job
Line cook
Cats supervising
3
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Live on the shelf above
Instagram
@skodenarcade