Arcade Games For Omarchy That Actually Respects Your theme

I made a retro Asteroids clone for Omarchy and it does something I haven't seen before — it reads your current desktop theme and matches the game colours to it. Switch themes, restart the game, and it recolours itself to fit your environment.

you find the link to the script on the site

https://www.no-signal.uk

amazing premade themes here and other cool stuff

https://github.com/OldJobobo

https://github.com/bjarneo

It's called Omoroids. One curl command to install, it appears in your Omarchy menu, and you're playing in seconds. Built with Love2D on Lua so the install footprint is tiny.

HOW IT WORKS

Launch it full screen and you've got a classic vector-style Asteroids game with sound effects, a high score table that persists between sessions, and smooth controls. But the neat part is it pulls your Omarchy theme colours — so on a dark blue theme you get blue-tinted vectors, on a warm brown theme the asteroids and ship shift to match.

It also scales. Open a terminal next to it and the game window shrinks down. Tile it alongside your browser, your AI chat, whatever you're working on — it fits right into your workspace without taking over. Play a quick round while your code compiles or your render exports.

You do need to restart the game after changing themes for it to pick up the new colours. It reads the theme on launch, not live.

THEME COMPATIBILITY

Some themes work better than others visually. High contrast themes with strong colours look great. Lighter or more muted themes like the Nine Inch Nails ghost theme still work but the vectors can be harder to spot against subtle backgrounds. Totally playable either way.

INSTALL

Go to no-signal.uk, scroll down to the retro gaming section, click through to the Git repo, copy the curl command, paste it into terminal. It installs Love2D if you don't have it and drops the game into your Omarchy menu under OM. That's it.

MORE COMING

This is the first in a series of vector-style retro games for Omarchy, all theme-aware. I've already built Missile Command, Lunar Lander, and I'm working on a Battlezone-style 3D tank game and a Star Wars trench run. They'll come out one at a time so you can pick the ones you want.

If there's a classic vector arcade game you'd love to see, drop it in the comments. I'm keeping everything vectorised so it scales cleanly and fits the Omarchy aesthetic.

Built with Love2D, Lua, and a healthy amount of AI-assisted coding. These come together surprisingly fast once you've got the framework down.

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