Battleship set among the asteroids. It’s a space marine fleet battle you can play on your phone or in a browser.
Void Armada is a landscape rebuild of the Battleship game from Family Games, reimagined as a space marine fleet battle. Both 10×10 grids are on screen at the same time, asteroid fields block some of the cells, and every hit lands with pop-art HIT! and SUNK! stickers, giving it the bright, chunky feel of games like BattleTabs.
Instead of taking one shot per turn, you spend energy on five different weapon systems. You lock onto a target and then hit FIRE!. The server is in charge of the game. In the arcade, the game provider places the fleets, runs the AI and settles the bet, and the Unity client just draws whatever state it’s sent, which makes every battle cheat-proof.
Both boards are always visible, with big HUD bars and stickers that tell you exactly what just happened.
The energy system turns "pick a cell" into "pick a weapon, then pick a cell".
All the rules live on the backend, so single-player and online games play by exactly the same honest rules.
These screenshots were captured straight from the game. Tap any of them to see it bigger.
Choose to play against Veteran or Warlord and set your stake. Both fleets are placed around the asteroid sectors for you.
Your energy builds up every turn, and with every hit or ship you sink.
Fire the Plasma Lance for free, or spend energy on a barrage, railgun, scan or shield, and then hit FIRE!.
When you score a hit, you get to fire again. The first commander to sink the other fleet wins the battle and the payout.
The Plasma Lance is free and lets you fire again on a hit. There’s also an Orbital Barrage that hits in a plus shape, a railgun that sweeps a row or column, a 3×3 scan and a shield that blocks one hit.
Veteran goes after damaged ships and finishes them off, and beating it pays 1.30×. Warlord uses heat-map targeting and special abilities, and beating it pays 1.80×.
Open a private room, send your friend the 4-character code, and the battle starts as soon as they join. It’s free to play, with a move timer and a rematch option.
Blocked cells change where fleets can hide and how the weapons sweep across the board.
If your phone is stuck in portrait, a "virtual landscape" mode rotates the UI and the camera for you, so you don’t have to unlock screen rotation.
HIT!, FIRE AGAIN! and ENEMY HIT! stickers, a turn timer and a live fleet tracker for both commanders.
I made this game on my own, so I handled the design, the code, the art pipeline, the audio and the release.
The client never holds the rules. It sends what the player wants to do, such as fire, scan or shield, and draws whatever state comes back. The first server was a TypeScript GameDefinition (validated with zod, using REST and WebSocket). The arcade version plays on the game provider, which places the fleets, runs the AI and settles the bet.
On native builds, the operating system locks the game to landscape. On the web, the page asks the host to rotate, then goes fullscreen and locks the orientation. If the screen is still held in portrait, the UI is rotated −90° and the camera is rolled 90° to make up for it.
The UI is laid out on a canvas of at least 1280×720 at a fixed pixel scale and stays clear of notches and rounded corners. It was tested at 19.5:9, 16:9 and 4:3, on unfolded foldables and in rotated portrait.
Play a Friend runs on the provider’s /hubs/rooms SignalR hub. It has private rooms you join with a 4-character code, a move timer, a forfeit if you leave, and a rematch once both commanders ask for one.
generate_ships.py builds the five warship classes from a shared kit in Blender, and the same scripts render the portraits and the Void Armada logo.
tools/build_sfx.py layers free recordings from OpenGameArt with a generated deep bass thump to create each firing and impact sound.
The music and fonts are free and credited, both on the in-game About screen and in CREDITS.md.
Credits. The ship models, portraits and logo are all original and made in Blender. The third-party music, sound effects and fonts are free to use and credited in the game and in CREDITS.md.