RCade: Building a Community Arcade Cabinet
Come to Localhost at the Recurse Center!
🕹️ A collective arcade cabinet like no other
The RCade is a custom arcade cabinet built during the Fall 2, 2025 batch at the Recurse Center that runs games made by the community. It has a real CRT, a custom graphics card, spinner controllers, and a deploy pipeline where anyone can ship a game just by pushing to GitHub. It now has over 44 games.
Frank Chiarulli will talk about reviving the hardware and building the deployment system, Rose Hall will cover the game engine and plugin sandbox, Stephen Downward will walk through building a custom display adapter from scratch, and Greg Sadetsky will talk about fostering community through technology. They'll close out by showing off some of the games.
The cabinet will be there in person — if you've ever wanted to play on the physical RCade, this is your chance.
Doors open and refreshments will be available at 6:30 pm. The talk will begin at 7:00 pm. Mingling to follow.
This event is in-person only. A recording of the talk will be made available on the Recurse Center YouTube channel.
Localhost is a series of technical talks in NYC given by members of the Recurse Center community. For every event, we set aside seats for the public.
Learn more about the RCade:
Frank Chiarulli:
Rose Hall:
Stephen Downward:
Greg Sadetsky: