I have a few questions if that's okay :)
Great questions! Sorry for being slow, I was watching the LA Rams lose 😁
Q/A:
Q1. So does the game have to involve falling off a cliff or can I be creative with it and do something like an Ice Climbers-like? Not directly like it, but basically the same concept. Platforms vertically, get hit once you get knocked off or dropped down a platform?
A1. I mean the idea is you don't want to fall of the cliff. I think you nailed it w/ that.
Q2. If you do get an arcade cabinet made, do you get one mailed to you or do you have to purchase it still ?
A2. So I am a new start up business, and what I built is an arcade cabinet that deploys indie arcade games. Essentially, we rent these to venus who have customers that want to play arcades. I attached some pictures above of one I have in my office. Essentially people select a game and pay w/ the POS. If they play your game you get to split the proceeds w/ the merchant who bought the cabinet. It's a win-win situation, free eyes and advertisement for your game, and you will get all the royalties your game makes. Basically I make the software that enables you to deploy your game to this. There is a small plugin we'll have you download for your unity game (assuming you use unity) and it does most of the work.
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That will give you an idea of what's going on w/ our system. We make your webgl game fully supported on an arcade. It's pretty badass
Oh man Gamemaker??? We’ll I’ll make you a deal. If your game is good, I’ll pay my guys to assist you in the conversion process. Possibly map it to unity so we leverage our plugin, or even make another plugin for gamemaker just for you (and others who come along in the future).
I’m all about making things easy on game devs.