I always have a soft spot for little game dev kits like this. Strict limitations often lead to a lot of creativity. The Arduboy is one I've used a lot.
And I guess I'll share this here because I don't know when else I'd ever be able to talk about it.
A few years ago I created a portable game console that consisted of two buttons (left and right) and a row of 9 LEDs (and an on off switch). It was powered by an Arduino Teensy and Lipo battery, letting it run for a pretty decent amount of time.
The idea is given the ultra minimal hardware, what's the craziest games you can make with it?
I made a 3d """ray tracer"" that would show your surroundings and walls using just the leds (flatland style). Left and right turned, and pushing both walked forward.
I also made a dungeon crawler with each LED being a specific indicator for the state of the world (I wanted to make overlays to help with ideas like this)
The best one imo was an ebook reader. I only simulated it due to code size constraints, but I made each LED blink out morse code for each letter in a book, and used left and right to scroll through it. I loaded Neuromancer in and it worked fine. Pretty ridiculous but one of the more interesting projects I've done! I should really look for that device....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduboy
And I guess I'll share this here because I don't know when else I'd ever be able to talk about it.
A few years ago I created a portable game console that consisted of two buttons (left and right) and a row of 9 LEDs (and an on off switch). It was powered by an Arduino Teensy and Lipo battery, letting it run for a pretty decent amount of time.
The idea is given the ultra minimal hardware, what's the craziest games you can make with it?
I made a 3d """ray tracer"" that would show your surroundings and walls using just the leds (flatland style). Left and right turned, and pushing both walked forward.
I also made a dungeon crawler with each LED being a specific indicator for the state of the world (I wanted to make overlays to help with ideas like this)
The best one imo was an ebook reader. I only simulated it due to code size constraints, but I made each LED blink out morse code for each letter in a book, and used left and right to scroll through it. I loaded Neuromancer in and it worked fine. Pretty ridiculous but one of the more interesting projects I've done! I should really look for that device....