Let’s talk Games with an old-school soul. Software with a purpose. Welcome to the world of conceptAlpha.
Explore the games
FEATURED GAME
The Manta flies again. A modern tribute to the Commodore 64 classic.
01 / THE GAMES
Arcade roots. New adventures.
A collection of worlds made to get lost in.
01↗The Manta flies again. A modern tribute to the Commodore 64 classic.
02↗One button. A whole world of adventure.
03↗Asteroids, UFOs, and the pursuit of one more high score.
04↗Small sweets. Spectacular chain reactions.
05↗Find the lost terraformers. Escape before your mothership leaves.
06↗A fresh spin on Snake, with an entire planet’s power at stake.
07↗Revisiting the ideas and mechanics of a Rainbow Arts classic.
08↗Forget moving the blocks. Control the colour grid and zap the tower.
02 / BEYOND THE GAMES
The curiosity doesn’t stop at games.
Meet the software projects.
Keep licences, logins, documents, and life’s important details together. Shape your records with custom templates, stay on top of important dates, and choose local or iCloud storage with optional vault encryption.
Your photos, videos, music, and PDFs in one place. Browse local folders, Apple Photos, and SMB, WebDAV, or SFTP storage. Stream remote video, pick up where you left off, and organise files without leaving the browser.
03 / FROM THE DEVELOPMENT DESK
At the beginning of July we started turning import into a workflow rather than a file picker. Choosing an export from another application should not immediately fill a vault with…
Read the story : Giving imports a pause buttonThe next stretch of work was about making the foundations comfortable to use. A growing application can quickly turn Settings into a long list of unrelated switches. We reorganised the…
Read the story : Making the licence manager feel like a proper Mac appIn mid-June, the project was still License Vault. The immediate job was a fresh SwiftUI foundation, replacing the older mixture of Swift, SwiftUI and Objective-C. This was the start of…
Read the story : Starting again, with a vault at the centre04 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE PIXELS
I’m Aaron Thorne, the independent developer behind conceptAlpha. I make games inspired by the classics I love, and explore new ideas through software. From arcade shooters to colourful puzzlers, this is where those ideas come to life.
From the development desk ↗