Chris Dick / Gameduino

A Library for the Gameduino shield

Dependencies:   Arduino

Dependents:   Gameduino_Asteroids_game Gameduino_Ball_demo Gameduino_Bitmap_demo Gameduino_chessboard_demo ... more

This is a library for the Gameduino, a shield for the Arduino. It uses a secondary library to recreate the arduino functionality. This is to keep this library as close to the original as possible. The original was released by James Bowman, who designed the Gameduino. His webpage (http://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino/) has tutorials and plenty of other information on the Gameduino. I have published a lot of the demos on his page and they can be found here:

Asteroids:

Ball demo:

Bitmap demo:

Chessboard demo:

Collision demo:

Frogger game:

jkcollision demo:

Joystick test:

Manic miner game:

Palettes demo:

Rotate demo:

Screenshot demo:

This needs to run a python script, more information and the script can be found on the gameduino site.

Scroll demo:

snow demo:

spinning dna demo:

split screen demo:

256 sprites demo:

I've also ported Invaders, written for the arduino by Colin (couldn't find his surname) and can be found at http://www.artlum.com/gameduino/gameduino.html:

and made a template for gameduino based projects. I have used an mbeduino board and have included a a file shield.h which contains the pinouts for this board. This can easily be modified to your needs. As a default I have chosen to use pull ups on the joystick inputs and switch down to 0V. This can be quickly altered and this is at the top of most main.c files, with the exception of invaders. This has more configuration options in the joystick files.