Yard Wars
A fast top-down arena shooter for Android and desktop, made with LÖVE.
Pick a rowdy, fight bots or friends in your Wi-Fi, smash treasure chests for coins and
unlock new rowdies.
Play it: download and installation instructions are on the website,
http://yardwars.zeromips.org/. Installed copies update themselves.
Features
- Nineteen rowdies, each with its own attack and a super attack: Shotgunner, Gunner,
Sniper, Robot, Gardener, Pirate, Student, Chef, Agent Angel, Doctor Fizzle, Wrestler,
Digger, Ghostman, Wizard, Posion, Fruit Man, Officer, Mecha Robot and Tornalo (the
last thirteen designed by Gideon)
- Hide and seek: one seeker, five hiders who turn into bushes when they stand still, and
a picture puzzle that makes the round shorter
- A free Yard Pass with seasons, challenges that never expire and cosmetics to win
- Flower Gardens: four teams carry flowers home to their fenced gardens; every five
flowers bring a toy bulldozer that knocks down another team's fence
- Modes: Duel, Team fight (3 vs 3), Waves, Yardball, King of the Yard, Hide and seek and
Flower Gardens, against bots
- Play together in the same Wi-Fi: free-for-all, team fight, co-op waves, Yardball, King
of the Yard, Hide and seek and Flower Gardens, the host is found automatically
- Touch controls (move stick, aim and release to fire) and keyboard + mouse
- New rowdies: save up coins (treasure chests, round rewards) and beat the rowdy in a
boss fight - you can't lose, you pop back in until it's out (alone or with friends)
- Signed automatic updates
Running from source
Install LÖVE 11.5, then in this folder:
love .
A checkout like this never updates itself; only packaged builds do.
Useful options for testing: --rowdy N (start with rowdy N), --coins N (add coins),
--boss N [host] (boss fight against rowdy N),
--host [team|waves|yardball|king|hide|flowers] and --join <address> / --find (LAN game on one machine: run
two instances). Playing over the network uses UDP ports 27015 and 27016.
Project layout
main.lua - screens, game loop, camera, HUDsrc/world.lua - the game simulation (no graphics, also runs on the LAN host)src/rowdies.lua - the rowdies' stats and superssrc/net.lua, src/replica.lua - LAN multiplayersrc/updater.lua, src/rsa.lua - signed self-updates over httptools/ - packaging (build.sh), publishing (publish.sh, needs the signing key) and
the sprite cutter for the character artwebsite/ - the static website
CLAUDE.md has the detailed developer notes.
Credits
Yard Wars is a father-and-son project by Gideon and Dirk Eibach. Code written with the
help of an AI assistant (Claude); character art generated with Google Gemini. Arena tiles
from the Top-down Shooter pack by Kenney
(CC0). See CREDITS.md.
License
MIT, see LICENSE.
