You will soon notice some style changes on the website. I'm going for a retro video game aesthetic. The dark, bold color choices you've seen so far were already a part of that. They're inspired by various "retro 8bit gaming" color palettes you can find floating around the internet. I'm aiming more specifically for early 1980s arcade machines. Think Galaga.
This is part of my efforts to give Wajerleague a different style than real-money sports gambling websites have. When I first built Protect Your Unit, the aim was to be as realistic as possible, which I think it did very well. But with this new project, I want to keep the realistic gameplay, but make the graphics more game-like.
Check this out:
This is a brand new product from Arcade1Up, a company that makes retro arcade cabinets for the home. I have one, and it's great. This is also a brand new product line for them; it's a home slot machine.
If you've been in a casino in the last 20 years, you've seen a real Wheel Of Fortune slot machine. They're in any place that has slot machines at all, just like Addams Family is in any place that had pinball machines at all.
I bring it up because this "Casinocade" device offers for slot machines what Wajerleague.com does for sports gambling: the opportunity to play a realistic casino game, against a worldwide online leader board, with no real money involved. Except that Wajerleague doesn't take up in space in your home and cost $600.
In all the time I've spent building Wajerleague this year, there's one question I've asked myself more than any other: "Is this a stupid idea?" protectyouru.net was a website I built to run a small sports gambling contest I could have run with Google Sheets. I started this project because I thought there was a larger audience for what that silly little website became to a lot of people. The fact that a company created and built this product, tells me I'm not the only one who believes in this idea.
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