New game published : Fire !

Fire game has been published !

It's a simple game described in a series of tutorials.
The engine is very simple and all code is about

The game runs at 640x480, 4096 colors 60fps. Here is a record of the simulator running under linux.

Code, Graphics by makapuf

To compile it you'll need embedded-gcc and python (image to C scripts)
The .bin file is 136k, available on github (as well as the source & graphics) ; upload to bitbox using SWD interface by example.



The game is currently made for bitbox rev1 (but as all games, will be adapted to rev2).

Quick News

Although there hasn't been many news, development has been continuing behind the scene.

Rev2 preview ...

An efficient scanline blitting algorithm

For the bitbox kernel, we need to have a fast graphical objects blitting library, since we will often have the same needs. Blitting from low Z to high Z of a fixed tiled background + overdrawing small sprites (to keep the 5k cycles budget) only goes so far, because as we are overdrawing pixels, we will be hitting the 5k cycles / lines pretty soon.

We will sum up the needs of such a library and propose an algorithm.

Tutorial : blitting graphics

(this is the second part of the tutorial about making a Fire game for the bitbox)

If you need basic information about writing software for the bitbox console, please read this introductory tutorial 

Tutorial : Creating a small game from scratch : game logic

Hello all !

In order to let people know about the process of making a game for bitbox (or a toy 2D Game in general, this post will have very few specifics to bitbox, next ones will be more involved) , I'll blog a few times to show you that in detail.

The game will consist in a bunch of people jumping out of a building on fire, and a team of two firemen who will make them bounce to the ambulance. It'll be programmed in C99, without any complex techniques.

Sounds familiar ?

bitbox mailing list

A new mailing list has been created to discuss about bitbox issues, new revisions, games, ...
Here is the link on google groups : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bitbox-console