I Made Missile Command For Omarchy And I Can't Get Past Wave 7
Second in the retro game series for Omarchy — this time it's a Missile Command clone called OM Command. Same rules as Omoroids — it reads your Omarchy theme colours, scales to any window size, and installs with one curl command.
Second in the retro game series for Omarchy — this time it's a Missile Command clone called OM Command. Same rules as Omoroids — it reads your Omarchy theme colours, scales to any window size, and installs with one curl command.
you find the link to the script on the site
amazing premade themes here and other cool stuff
Fair warning, this one's addictive. I can't get past wave seven. If you can, post it in the comments.
MY HISTORY WITH MISSILE COMMAND
This game is personal for me. Back at school, our maths department had a Research Machines 380Z — twin floppy drives, ran CP/M, and we thought it was the future. Then the BBC Micro B arrived with its colour graphics and audio and absolutely blew our minds.
There was a magazine called Computer and Video Games that printed game code you could type in by hand. In the back of issue 32 there was Missile Command for the BBC B. A lad called Dave and I spent about four weeks typing it in at lunchtime, saving to tape, and I'm pretty sure we never got it working because there was an error in the printed code. That was the first game I ever tried to build. So making this clone decades later on Omarchy felt like closing a loop.
THE GAME
It's a vector-style Missile Command with the core mechanics — missiles rain down on your cities, you launch interceptors to create explosion clouds that destroy incoming warheads. It escalates fast. Planes fly across dropping bombs, satellites appear, and by wave seven you're dealing with MIRVs splitting into multiple independent warheads.
The mouse controls the crosshair. It works but honestly this game was designed for a trackball — the original arcade cabinet had one and it made all the difference. Getting the cursor across the screen fast enough in the later waves with a mouse is brutal.
THEME AWARE
Like Omoroids, it pulls your current Omarchy theme colours on launch. Dark themes, light themes, vibrant, muted — the vectors adapt. Restart the game after switching themes to pick up new colours.
SCALING
Resize the window and it scales down. Tile it alongside your work, play a round while something renders. If you resize mid-game it'll redraw on the next round. Playing it in a wide landscape window actually gives you a slight advantage — more horizontal space to work with.
INSTALL
Go to no-signal.uk, find OM Command in the retro gaming section, copy the curl command, paste into terminal. Done. It installs Love2D if needed and drops into your Omarchy menu.
CAN YOU BEAT WAVE SEVEN
Seriously. I cannot get past it. The difficulty ramp is savage. Post your highest wave in the comments.
WHAT'S NEXT
Lunar Lander is done and coming soon. Battlezone is in progress but the 3D perspective is harder to get right than it looks. I'm also thinking about a vectorised Elite clone — the original BBC version was assembler but the concept would fit beautifully into the Omarchy aesthetic.
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