About this design
Where the Arcade style comes from, and what it signals.
Arcade turns a deck into an 8-bit cabinet screen. It borrows the visual grammar of early arcade games: a HUD score row pinned to the top of every slide, double-bordered panels, and charts assembled from chunky square blocks instead of smooth bars. The fonts are the period-correct pair of Press Start 2P for headlines and VT323 for everything else.
The palette is pure CRT: yellow #FFD23F headlines with a hard pink-red #FF4365 offset shadow on a deep navy-black #0D0D1A field, with cyan #2DE2E6 and green #7CFC00 as the supporting colors. No gradients, no blur, no rounded corners. Pixels do not anti-alias.
The joke only works when it runs all the way through. Use it for internal demos, game-adjacent products, hackathons, or any talk where 'PRESS START' is an acceptable closing line.
Use it for
- Developer tool and gaming product demos
- Hackathon pitches and internal all-hands segments
- Launch decks for products with a playful brand
- Meetup and conference talks that need energy
Skip it for
- Board meetings, fund updates or anything with lawyers in the room
- Dense data reporting; pixel charts trade precision for charm
- Print handouts, where the dark background drinks toner
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Arcade' theme, an 8-bit arcade cabinet screen. Background: deep navy black #0D0D1A. Palette: yellow #FFD23F, pink-red #FF4365, cyan #2DE2E6, green #7CFC00 and white. Typography: headlines in 'Press Start 2P' and all other text, including the HUD, in the monospaced 'VT323' (both Google Fonts); uppercase, headlines 36 to 64px in #FFD23F with a hard offset shadow of 5px 5px 0 #FF4365, no blur. Signature motifs: (1) a HUD row at the top of every slide, '1UP 4200' left in #FF4365 and 'HI-SCORE 9999' right in #2DE2E6, scores in white; (2) double-border panels, a 4px solid border, a 3px gap, then an inner 2px border in the same color; (3) bars, icons and charts built from 12px square blocks with 3px gaps like pixel art, including 5x4-grid pixel hearts in #FF4365; (4) a centered 'PRESS START' footer in white at 50 percent opacity. Strictly avoid: gradients, rounded corners, blur or glow effects, photographs, serif fonts, smooth curves. Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHub
How to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Arcade deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Arcade on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Arcade presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Arcade slide design prompt in practice.
