Club ERP
The Club · Sheraton, a Ministry of Youth & Sports club
The system a whole club runs on: members and families, money, sports, bookings, staff and stock, in one place.
Open levelPlayer 1: Founder of AL-Arcade
MahmoudAglan
Founder
Started AL-Arcade in Cairo in 2022. Software for government bodies and companies, games for global hardware brands.
Player stats
Counted from my repositories and from the server my products run on.
Snapshot of 29 October 2026.
75projects in this portfolio
1,771production builds in six months
4,090commits on my GitLab
1,295,217lines of code shipped
73apps running on one server
25games and game prototypes
Select a world
Seven worlds. Every project I have shipped is a level. Open one to clear it.
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Systems
ERPs, platforms and an AI assistant that organisations run their day on.
Captain, the guarded AI
Inside Club ERP
Managers ask in plain Arabic and get numbers, charts and reports from live data. It can only read, and only what that manager may see.
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El Captain
OC Sport academies
Multi-tenant academy software. OC Sport runs more than 850 players on it: programmes by age, schedules, attendance, billing and a parents’ portal.
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DevPilot
AL-Arcade, internal
My own agent platform: I type a task on my phone, a Claude Code agent works in the real repo on the server, streams its progress and pushes the commit.
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GEMS
Gaming events management
Tournament software for gaming events: players register, queue for matches, get called when it is their turn and follow a live leaderboard.
Open levelInternal tools
AL-Arcade
The tools behind the studio: a gamified HR and project platform, a QA test-case manager, a protected video player and a game-scoping calculator.
Open levelGames
Booth games for hardware brands, multiplayer worlds, chess with bots and games for kids.
GameplayEl3ab
AL-Arcade’s own game platform
Chess, ludo, domino and tawla in one Arabic-first game, with Stockfish bots, ratings, tournaments, clubs and a full operator console.
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GameplayMSI Katana Warrior
MSI
A body-controlled samurai game: swing your arms to cut through 50 ninjas, then spin the prize wheel. It drew queues at MSI stands for months.
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Cooler Master Play & Win
Cooler Master, Insomnia gaming festival
A cyberpunk runner you play with your body. Raise both hands to start. It packed Cooler Master’s stand for two days.
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IStalk
AL-Arcade original
Asymmetric multiplayer horror: one player is a giant Eye watching a procedural dollhouse, the others are Runners looting it in first person, slowed by everything they steal.
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GameplayMSI Wizard, RTX edition
MSI
A realistic first-person wizard showcase for MSI’s new laptops: players hurl fire at a skeleton army with their hands.
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GameplayMSI Lucky Drum Master
MSI
A Kinect rhythm game: MSI’s Lucky dragon plays four drums on a neon stage and players hit the beats with their hands to win prizes.
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Hospital on a Budget
AL-Arcade original
Four-player online co-op: clumsy physics hands give real first aid to ragdoll patients, wave after wave, until the clinic reaches Class S or goes bankrupt.
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GameplayMSI Ramadan Lucky Runner
MSI
A Kinect runner where MSI’s Lucky dragon dashes through a lantern-lit Ramadan alley collecting dates.
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GameplayMSI Lucky Hoverboard
MSI
Lucky the dragon rides a hoverboard through a neon city at night, dodging traffic and grabbing coins against a 60-second clock.
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GameplayMSI Fighting Game
MSI
A two-player fighting game in an MSI arena, with combos, counters and knockouts, played seated on gamepads.
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GameplayPureGanic Kinect game
PureGanic
Punch and kick through a cartoon street on a portrait kiosk, then spin for a prize. Kids and parents played it together.
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MSI Meme Bun Wizard
MSI
A comic wizard game where players fight zombie hordes by casting spells with their arms. It started our long run of games with MSI.
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Motion-tracking booth games
AL-Arcade product line for brands
A repeatable kit for touch-free brand games: a Kinect, a PC and a big screen, plus a prize wheel organisers run from a spreadsheet.
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Atom Math Games
Science Street, atomai.games
Fifteen procedurally built math game templates with five grade-tuned variants each, covering math from kindergarten to Grade 6.
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Stockfish bot service
Powers El3ab
A small Go service that turns the Stockfish engine into seven chess opponents with human strength, human mistakes and human thinking time.
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AL-Arcade MC Launcher
Unofficial launcher, not associated with Mojang or Microsoft
A redesigned Bedrock launcher for Mac and Windows with automatic world backups and pack management, plus servers where Bedrock and Java players share one world.
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Saba’ Al-Layl games
AL-Arcade original
Kinect games built around a farmer hero, starting with Al-Tahteeb, a stick-fighting game built in four days for a gaming festival.
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TPI Medieval Knight
TPI Games
A high-fidelity third-person souls-like demo: an armoured knight in an overgrown medieval castle.
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TPI Wolf Hunter
TPI Games
A first-person survival-shooter demo: hunt wolf creatures through a dense forest with a hunting shotgun.
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Science Street Trivia
Science Street
A multiplayer trivia game where players time-travel with Anan to meet the great scholars of history.
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GameplayFusteka shooter demo
Fusteka
A low-poly multiplayer shooter demo for an ice-cream brand’s first game. It proved the feel and the art style, then the client shelved it.
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El3ab, the 2025 prototype
The first El3ab, with OC Sport
Where El3ab started: a Unity board-games hub with 3D chess and ludo tables seen from the player’s seat, and costume avatars.
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Ta7alip Academy runner
Ta7alip Academy
A runner game for Ta7alip Academy’s campus booth, played by students at Cairo University.
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GameplayAmer Group boat racing
Amer Group and Porto Sporting Club
A branded powerboat racer through tropical islands and rock arches, adapted from an open-source racing sample.
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Studio lab
68 Unity projects on my GitLab
Everything else we prototyped: a learning game with voice prompts, a business sim, a delivery game with traffic, a Kinect party game, and the tools we reuse.
Open levelApps
Apps people carry in their pockets: member cards, bookings, gate passes and games.
The Club members’ app
The club in a member’s pocket: a digital card with a QR gate pass, the whole family, bookings and news.
Members’ app and legacy bridge
A members’ app, a staff portal and a gate scanner for a club of about 80,000 members, fed by the club’s 20-year-old desktop system without replacing it.
Members’ app prototype
A 54-screen clickable prototype that needs no network, built to be shown live in client meetings.
Club operator app pitch
A members’ app pitch with a working 29-screen app inside the page, in Arabic and English, rebuilt photo-led after the client said the first one looked generic.
Club network pitch
One page that pitches both the club system and the members’ app, with real ERP screens re-branded for the client and a working app.
Phyzio
Gyms, physiotherapists and rehab centres that welcome people with special needs, in one app, with points that turn sessions into discounts.
Web
Company sites, stores and platforms, from a 3D print editor to a club website.
al-arcade.com
AL-Arcade
The company site in English and Arabic from one template, with working miniatures of the systems the studio builds playing on the home page.
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The Club website
The Club · Sheraton
The club’s public site, served by the ERP itself, so sports, courts and age bands come straight from live club data.
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El Captain website
El Captain, our academy platform
The Arabic site that sells El Captain to academy owners, with a page per sport and a subscription calculator.
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OC Sport website
OC Sport
OC Sport’s public site, rebuilt on El Captain’s website builder, with a branches section that reads live data from the academy system.
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Business and trust reports
For The Club · Sheraton
Two animated Arabic reports for government readers: what was built, screen by screen, and why the system is safe to use.
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UGC Heaven
Creator marketplace
A marketplace where brands post content campaigns and creators apply, deliver and get reviewed, with self-hosted video review to the frame.
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Matbaangi
Matbaangi print shop
A print-shop store where customers design business cards and booklets in the browser, front and back, before they order.
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Safha Plus
Digital marketing agency
A bilingual agency site with a particle-effect hero, handed over with a content dashboard.
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Cosmic Esports
Esports organisation
A high-energy site for an esports organisation, with tournament pages and group tables.
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ArtSteel
Steel fabrication workshop
A portfolio site for a steel-fabrication workshop, with a laser-cutter hero and a grid of featured works.
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Do it Scrubs
Medical apparel startup
An online store for medical scrubs, with categories, new arrivals and product rows.
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GGClub
Pitch and court booking
A pitch-booking site: pick a location, a sport and a field, then a time, in five steps.
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Nabta Pure
Natural health brand
A store for a natural-health brand, with catalogue, consultation services, brand story and checkout.
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Sand Port
Trade and logistics company
A trade and logistics company site with services, partnership and agency requests, and an agents directory.
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Megainox
Industrial equipment supplier
A catalogue and shop for an industrial-equipment supplier serving many sectors.
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El3ab landing site
El3ab
A dark landing page for El3ab with the app in a phone, download and tournament buttons, and an Arabic switch.
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ARKEMET Engineering
Steel fabrication contractor
A company site for a steel-fabrication contractor, with a video hero, projects, partners, careers and quote requests.
Open levelTa7adi
Accessibility initiative
A concept for a skills platform built for people with disabilities: text to Braille, text to speech, and a reading aid that enlarges the line under the cursor.
Open levelPitch & design
Proposals, decks and billboards I design to win a client, a room or a street.
University platform proposal
A public technological university
A university platform proposal drawn as an engineering drawing set, published on the web and as a paginated A4 edition from the same source.
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AL-Arcade billboards
AL-Arcade
Arabic outdoor and social ads for AL-Arcade: 3 by 2 metre billboards, delivered as editable files built from HTML masters.
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El3ab sponsorship decks
Two prospective brand partners, not signed
Animated sponsorship pitch sites for El3ab, each re-skinned for a prospective sponsor through the app’s own theme engine.
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El3ab launch ads
El3ab
Launch ads for El3ab’s café games: a social set and 3 by 2 metre billboards built around real app screens.
Open levelServers
The machine everything above runs on. I set it up, I moved it, I keep it alive.
docker service ls74 of 77 up
captainplatform
nginxproxy
certbottls
registryimages
thecluberp
clubmanagementerp staging
theclub-reportreport
theclub-trustreport
club-mobile-appprototype
oc-sportel captain
demo-academyel captain
el-captain-managercontrol plane
el-captain-websitesite
el-captain-docsdocs
el-captainerp fork
test-academyel captain
el3ab-playergame
el3ab-managementconsole
stockfishapichess engine
swissapipairings
el3ab-pitchdeck
thecaptain-pitchdeck
el3ab-sponsor-adeck
el3ab-sponsor-bdeck
alarcadesite
prototype-fastdeck
pitch-site-1pitch
pitch-site-2pitch
pitch-site-3pitch
pitch-site-4pitch
pitch-site-5pitch
club-portalportal
istalk-relayrelay
istalkboardboards
al-arcade-servergame lobby
ugcheavenmarketplace
ugcvideoservervideo
devpilot-apiagents
vscodedev box
gitlabgit
mailmail
managementnextcloud
management-croncron
minecraftgame panel
minecraft-nodegame node
phpserversandbox
qa-tooltests
admin-tooladmin
supabase-gatewaybackend
supabase-studiobackend
wordpresssite
wordpresssite
wordpresssite
wordpresssite
wordpresssite
wordpresssite
wordpresssite
mysql-dbmysql
el3ab-dbmysql
mysqlmysql
mysqlmysql
mysqlmysql
mysqlmysql
mysqlmysql
mysqlmysql
club-portal-dbpostgres
el-captain-manager-dbpostgres
elcaptain-dbpostgres
istalkboard-dbpostgres
ugc-heaven-dbpostgres
ugcvideoserver-dbpostgres
management-dbmariadb
minecraft-dbmariadb
management-redisredis
minecraft-redisredis
ugc-heaven-redisredis
ugcvideoserver-redisredis
73apps on one 8-core box
42databases on 17 database servers
72TLS certificates, renewed on their own
19 minto move all of it to a new provider
One server, the whole company
AL-Arcade infrastructure
One 8-core machine runs 73 apps, 17 database servers, GitLab, mail, file sharing, a cloud dev box and game servers. Most of it deploys on git push.
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The 19-minute move
AWS to Contabo, October 2026
Moved the company’s entire 71-service production box to a new provider with 19 minutes of downtime, after checking every database byte for byte.
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Self-hosted GitLab
AL-Arcade and its team
My own GitLab: 135 repositories, 4,084 commits, 16 contributors, and the push that triggers deploys for most of my apps.
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The company stack, self-hosted
AL-Arcade
Mail, the file drive and team workspace, an app backend, a video server and project boards, all on the same box with no SaaS subscriptions.
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Security and load reviews
Club ERP, for the client
I run my own security and load reviews and hand the client a readable assessment, with the test code included.
Open levelCross-play Minecraft hosting
AL-Arcade
One world for Java and phone players on my own game panel, built around a network that silently dropped Bedrock’s connection packets.
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Game relay server
For IStalk
A small WebSocket lobby and packet relay that lets players of a Unity multiplayer game find each other and play without opening ports at home.
Open levelThree earlier moves
AL-Arcade and a learning platform
Before the big one: a learning platform with 1,101 users moved between accounts, GitLab and Nextcloud consolidated, and a rescue from a 98% full disk.
Open levelStage
Talks, workshops, a hackathon win and the finals of a startup competition.
1st place, Attaa Rakamy Hackathon
With CyberQuest
First place in a three-day hackathon on digital educational content, with a game that turns bug-bounty training into quests.
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AWS startup competition, final stage
El3ab and The Captain
Reached the last stage of an AWS startup competition, pitching both of AL-Arcade’s product lines with two investor-style web decks.
Open levelTechne Summit, 10th edition
Gaming Track panel and a workshop
Panelist on the Gaming Track and leader of a workshop, "Beyond Boring Tutorials: Gamifying Learning Pathways", at the summit’s tenth edition.
Open levelTechne Summit Cairo 2024
Gaming Track panel and a workshop
On the Gaming Track panel about the future of game development, and leader of a workshop, "What is a Game? Demystifying Gamification and Its Core Principles".
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Prototype Fast, Not Twice
Techne Summit 2026 workshop
A workshop for game developers on structuring Unity prototypes so they stay fast without a rewrite, with presenter notes and timing on every slide.
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Gamification of Education
EduVation Summit 2024 lecture
A full lecture on how game mechanics change learning, recorded and published by the summit.
Open levelGamification in education
Talk at the Insomnia gaming festival, Cairo
A festival talk on making learning more delightful with game mechanics.
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Top 5, Goodwill incubation programme
With Phyzio
One of the top five projects in an incubation programme, with Phyzio, a points-based platform linking people with special needs to gyms and physiotherapists.
Open levelBoss fights
The hardest problems I have taken on, and how each one went down. Press attack, or wait and watch.
Boss 1
The 19-minute move
71 services, 121 GiB of data and every database the company has, moved to a new provider without losing a byte or sending a single email twice.
HP100%
- Rehearsed on the new box with outbound traffic blocked, so clones could not send anything.
- Streamed 69 images and 59 volumes byte for byte, datacenter to datacenter.
- Compared every service spec, old against new. Result: clean.
- Checksummed 21 database volumes, GitLab and Supabase byte for byte.
- Forwarded every port from the old box, so DNS did not matter.
- Back online in 19 minutes, against a 60-minute plan.
Boss 2
An AI on sensitive data
Managers wanted answers from live club data in plain Arabic. The data includes salaries, national IDs and money. The model could not be allowed to see or change any of it on its own.
HP100%
- The model never touches the database. It only proposes queries.
- Every query runs in a READ ONLY transaction that is rolled back.
- HR and money tables are refused unless the person asking has that permission.
- IDs, phones and accounts are masked by the shape of the value, not just the column.
- Every question is logged with its SQL, and one setting switches it all off.
Boss 3
Books that always balance
A club takes money at gates, desks, cashiers and apps all day. Every piaster has to land in the right account, with an entry nobody can quietly edit later.
HP100%
- 33 business events each post a balanced journal entry on their own.
- Money is stored as integers, and the remainder of a split goes to the last line.
- A coverage check finds any document that has no entry.
- Refunds and transfers wait for a second approval.
- An HMAC chain makes any edit to history visible.
Boss 4
Twenty years in an old database
A club of about 80,000 members wanted a modern app without replacing the desktop system its cashiers have used for two decades.
HP100%
- A Windows agent on the club’s own server reads the old system in place.
- Read 80,278 memberships and about 2.9 million bill lines.
- A resumable worker committed a backlog of 1,846 batches behind one button.
- App payments are written back exactly the way the cashier writes them.
- The app never creates a member. It only reads and pays.
Boss 5
Multiplayer on real phones
Four board games, live opponents, tournaments and bots, on cheap phones with bad connections and wrong clocks, where a modified client should never be able to cheat.
HP100%
- The server checks every chess move with the same engine the client ships.
- Replayed 167 master-game transitions: no legal move rejected.
- Presence is measured on the server, so a wrong phone clock cannot lie.
- A bot takes an abandoned seat after 60 seconds, and games resume after a refresh.
- The tournament engine was simulated end to end from 2 to 100 players.
Boss 6
A booth that never stops
Brand stands run all day, with queues, noise and nobody technical nearby. The game has to start itself, read any body and hand out the right prizes.
HP100%
- Raise both hands to start: no keyboard, no staff.
- The player’s silhouette sits on screen, so people trust the sensor.
- Short timed runs keep the line moving.
- Staff run prizes and stock from a spreadsheet, with overrides for special guests.
- Nine brand games shipped, with queues at MSI stands for months.
Loadout
Every tool here is used in at least one project on this page. Tap one to see where.
Systems and back end
Front end and web
Games
Mobile and desktop
Infrastructure
AI, quality and craft
Quest log
How the game went so far, year by year.
2022
Founded AL-Arcade in CairoA software house and game studio, legally AglanTech.
Al-Tahteeb, built in four daysA Kinect stick-fighting game for the Insomnia gaming festival, plus a talk on gamification in education. Open level
Top 5 in the Goodwill incubation programmeWith Phyzio. Open level
1st place, Attaa Rakamy HackathonWith CyberQuest. Open level
2023
The MSI run beginsA wizard game at our own booth caught MSI’s eye. Six more MSI games followed within a year. Open level
Ramadan runner, Drum Master, Hoverboard, Wizard RTXKinect games for MSI events and stores. Open level
MSI Katana WarriorQueues at MSI stands from December into the next summer. Open level
2024
EduVation Summit lectureGamification of Education, recorded in full. Open level
Cooler Master Play & Win at InsomniaTwo days of crowds at the stand. Open level
Techne Summit, twiceGaming Track panels and workshops in May and October. Open level
PureGanic Kinect gameKids and parents playing together at a festival stand. Open level
2025
Self-hosted GitLab, and a teamThe first project on my own GitLab, which now hosts eleven team members’ work. Open level
El3ab’s first prototypeA Unity board-games hub that later became the El3ab platform. Open level
Client websites and game demosStores, agency and company sites, a souls-like knight and a shooter demo. Open level
2026
Club ERP: first commit to production in 5.5 monthsA Ministry of Youth & Sports club now runs on it. Open level
El3ab goes live as a web platformFour games, Stockfish bots and an in-house tournament engine. Open level
El Captain for OC Sport850+ players on a platform I own. Open level
DevPilot and the guarded AIAgents that ship from my phone, and an AI that can only read. Open level
AWS startup competition, final stageEl3ab and The Captain, pitched. Open level
The whole company moved in 19 minutes71 services to a new provider, every database verified. Open level
Trophy room
Won in real life
1st place, Attaa Rakamy Hackathon2022, with CyberQuest.
Final stage, AWS startup competition2026, with El3ab and The Captain.
Top 5, Goodwill incubation programme2022, with Phyzio.
Techne Summit speakerPanels and workshops in 2024, a workshop in 2026.
EduVation Summit lecture2024, Gamification of Education, recorded.
A government club runs on my ERPA Ministry of Youth & Sports club, 80 staff accounts.
850+ players on El CaptainOC Sport academies, 40,000+ attendance records.
Nine games for global brandsMSI, Cooler Master and PureGanic.
1,771 production buildsShipped through CapRover since May 2026.
Won on this site 0/20
Press StartStarted the game.
First levelOpened your first project.
CollectorOpened 10 projects.
Halfway thereOpened half of all projects.
CompletionistOpened every project.
ExplorerVisited all seven worlds.
Boss slayerDefeated every boss.
Class changeSwitched class on the select screen.
Many hatsTried every class.
Loadout checkPicked a tool to see where it was used.
Time outOpened the pause menu.
PaperworkDownloaded the CV.
PolyglotSwitched language.
Continue!Reached out from the Continue screen.
SpeedrunnerReached the end in under 90 seconds.
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Continue?
If you have a system to build, a game to make or a server that needs moving, I am one message away.
info@al-arcade.com