Gears of War: E-Day Arcade
Game / Browser Arcade
A free, browser-based wave-survival shooter and a love letter to 20 years of Gears. No download, no sign-up — open the link and hold the line against the Locust assault.
The problem
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Shipping a full playable shooter — engine, HUD, animations, leaderboard and SEO — in a single lunchtime session, the cost of a lunch.
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Recreating the Gears feel in a browser: a 2.5D behind-the-shoulder camera, the Lancer with active reloads and a chainsaw melee, and a working cover system.
- 03
Running identically on desktop mouse-and-keyboard and full mobile touch controls, with an E-Day Hall of Fame leaderboard and lifetime combat stats.
What was built
Custom Game Engine
A wave-survival shooter engine built in-session — 2.5D camera, cover, boss fights, active reloads and the chainsaw melee, all in the browser.
Entities
Combat profile, leaderboard, daily challenge and lifetime-stats records modelled as JSON schemas powering the E-Day Hall of Fame.
Mobile Build
Full touch controls compiled alongside desktop mouse-and-keyboard from one codebase — no port, no separate build.
SEO + Hosting
Deployed to gearsofwar.world with on-page SEO so the game is discoverable and loads instantly with zero sign-up.
The outcome
Built in a single lunchtime session. Players open gearsofwar.world and are in a wave-survival firefight with the Lancer, cover and a live leaderboard in seconds — no download, no sign-up.
The
terminal.
Send a brief — a sentence or a spec doc. You'll get a fixed price and a build plan back within 24 hours.