arduinoGames

programs for a small console consisting of an ATMega2560, 8x8 red LED matrix, and a jostick with button. Support for a passive buzzer for sound feedback coming soon

CODE IS UNDERGOING AN UPDATE (and by that I mean it is actually being written) ON the "rewrite" branch

List of Somewhat/Mostly Complete Games

• Conway's Game of Life
• 21/Blackjack
• Tower Stack Blocks (like the ones you would see at an arcade)

List of Programs That May or May Not be Implemented

The D20 has been rolled. Reaction-timer has been chosen to be implemented.

• Pong
• Paint
• Maze
• An RPG (similar to Existential Crisis)
• Snake
• Some kind of racing game
• Flappy bird
• The Dino Game
• Tic Tac Toe/Knots and Crosses
• Tetris (if I get it working right)
• Breakout
• Yahtzee
• Reaction-timer
• Calculator
• Canyon Runner
• Battleship
• Memory game (Simon says)

Thoughts on how I might implement these

because I've made little progress on doing anything and in general am kinda procrastinating right now

Pong

• bouncing ball
• whenever it hits something negate the velocity direction (which one depends on what it hit)
• paddle is fixed vertically (or horizontally, depending on how you look at it)
• display score after each goal

Paint

oof

• blinky thing represents cursor
• short press is toggle dot at that loc, long press opens menu
• in menu can:
• change size of brush
• clear screen
• save (output text to Serial and then save that in a file)
• load (input text from file using gui that I haven't made yet)
• change type of brush (normal, line, spray paint)

Maze

• generate a (solvable) maze
• blinky thing is character
• score is time taken to get through maze

An RPG

• Nothing yet

Snake

• no idea how to do the snakey part
• apple is easy just blink at a random loc

Racing Game

• 2d
• up is forward
• left steers left
• right steers right
• blink the player
• no opponets
• score is time
• racetracks increase in difficulty the higher you go

Flappy bird

• 1-wide columns
• up flaps up
• blink player
• score is time (but higher is better)

Dino Game

• chrome://dino

Tetris

• the rules of tetris, pretty much
• up holds
• down goes down
• left/right rotate shape
• might have to mod shapes depending on how large they are b/c I have only 64 LEDs
• if a whole row is filled it clears
• score is score

Tic Tac Toe

• yeah graphics are hard

Breakout

• Breakout breakout = new Breakout(breakout_inits);

Yahtzee

• I mean some kind of dice game would work but Yahtzee?
• how to display text? graphics?

Reaction-timer

• choose between 7 options: left, right, up, down, button press, all except button press, and all (a random mode)
• when the symbol is displayed (left arrow for left, right arrow for right, etc.) press/move the stick in that direction
• wait a random amount of time before displaying the symbol
• score is time * scale factor b/c no decimals

Calculator

• entering numbers is hard
• selecting operator less so
• Arduino doesn't have an eval() or exec() so will have to do something else
• stack-based stuff seems promising (Reverse-Polish Notation or something like Whitespace)

Canyon Runner

• Width no more than 6 (off led on each side)
• no less than 2 (so you can, you know, move)
• instead of keeping track of the walls individually, keep track of the left (or right) wall and then the width, and draw the other wall at wall_x + width
• score is time
• should get smaller over time
• also change more often over time

Battleship

• Battleship battleship = new Dreadfreakinought();
• might require some modification b/c 8x8 instead of 10x10
• hits are blinked slowly
• cursor is blinked fastily
• misses are solid
• no indication if you've sunk the ship
• score is either binary (win/lose, num wins vs num losses) or not (do it faster/less turns and lose less ships, get higher score)

Memory Game

• Basically the Simon Electronic Memory Game thing
• Up, Down, Left, Right
• Possibly middle (button press)

Other thoughts

Will def need a display_digits(99); func.