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Lucid Bounce

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Our take on the classic bouncing ball, paddle game.

A simple game for the Joy Gamer , Lucid Bounce puts the fun of the arcade in the palm of your hand, without hiding the cool stuff under the hood. This game uses our new LeoGamer to showcase what you can do with an LCD screen and joystick a few buttons and some Arduino code. While the controller itself will amaze you, this tutorial is about the code that goes into the machine. The objective is to write a bouncing ball and moving paddle game. In the process, you'll learn a few useful things about interfacing with an analog joystick, writing functions , and using a 3rd party library.

Images

Joy Bouncing

Joy Bouncing

The joystick controls the paddle.
Ball Bouncing

Joystick Paddle!
Game Over :(

Game over poetry...

The joystick controls the paddle.

Video

Joy Bounce Video

Joy Bounce in action

Code

Lucid Bounce Arduino Code

Here is code for the Joy Gamer to Play the paddle bounce game. First, make sure you have necessary libraries downloaded from the main Joy Gamer tutorial . The point of the game is just to keep the ball alive the longer you do it the more points you get. The whole program boils down to three functions and one struct. The struct is called point to encapsulate the data for the ball, the ball's direction and speed of travel, and the paddle.

struct point{   float x;  float y;  float sizer;  Color c;};

The functions are start_game(), draw_game() and draw_stats(). The start_game function clears the screen and resets the ball's position. The draw_stats() function draws the score and the remaining lives to the top of the screen. The draw_game() function does most of the work reading in the joy stick data and translating that into a position for the paddle. Then update the ball's position using the ball speed vector.

Download File

/* LucidTronix JoyGamer Joy Bounce * For instructions, details and schematic, See: * http://www.lucidtronix.com/tutorials/55 */#include #include     // Core graphics library#include  // Hardware-specific library#include #include #include #include #include Adafruit_ST7735  tft = Adafruit_ST7735(SS, 9, 8);JoyGamer jg = JoyGamer(&tft);struct point{   float x;  float y;  float sizer;  Color c;};int score = 0;int lives = 5; // dont go over 5 without adjusting paddle color codeunsigned long last_press, last_level_up;point paddle, ball, ball_speed;void setup(){  jg.initialize();  start_game();}void loop() {  draw_game();  delay(5);}// reset the ball and updates ball speed and padddle size;void start_game(){  jg.clear_screen();  paddle.x = 64;  paddle.y = 150;  paddle.c = Color(255 - (lives*50), 50, 50);  paddle.sizer = 40 - min(36, (score/50));  ball.x = 64;  ball.y = 64;  ball.c = Color(random(0,245), random(0,245), random(0,245));  ball.sizer =  max(2, 8 - score /50);  long randx = random(60, 500) + score;  long randy = random(150, 500) + score/3;  ball_speed.x = (float)randx / 1000.0;   ball_speed.y = (float)randy / 300.0; ;  draw_stats(); }void draw_game(){  tft.fillCircle(ball.x, ball.y, ball.sizer, jg.background.color_16());  int dx = map(analogRead(jg.joy_x), 0, 1024, -3, 4);  if(dx != 0) tft.fillRect(paddle.x-1, paddle.y-1, paddle.sizer+1, 6, jg.background.color_16());  ball.x += ball_speed.x;  ball.y += ball_speed.y;  if((dx > 0 && paddle.x < 128-paddle.sizer) || (dx < 0 && paddle.x > 0)) paddle.x += dx;  tft.fillCircle(ball.x, ball.y, ball.sizer, ball.c.color_16());  tft.fillRect(paddle.x, paddle.y, paddle.sizer, 5, paddle.c.color_16());    if(bounce_ball_y()) {    ball_speed.y *= -1;    // avoid double bounces by pushing the ball above the paddle when necessary    tft.fillCircle(ball.x, ball.y, ball.sizer, jg.background.color_16());    ball.y = min(paddle.y-1, ball.y);  }  if(ball.x < ball.sizer || ball.x > 128 - ball.sizer) ball_speed.x *= -1;  if(ball.y >  paddle.y + 6){    if(lives <= 0) {       jg.clear_screen();       jg.draw_string(3, 10, "Game Over.", Color(150, 20, 50).color_16(), 2);       jg.draw_string(10, 60, "Death becomes you.", Color(0, 50, 250).color_16(), 1);       jg.draw_string(10, 74, "Press Joystick", Color(0, 50, 250).color_16());       jg.draw_string(10, 88, "to Start Over", Color(0, 50, 250).color_16());       while(digitalRead(jg.joystick_btn_pin) == LOW){         delay(40);        }       lives = 5;       score = 0;       start_game();       last_level_up = millis();    }    else {      lives--;      start_game();      last_level_up = millis();    }  }  if(millis() - last_level_up > 4000){    score += 50;    last_level_up = millis();    ball_speed.x *= 1.1;    ball_speed.y *= 1.1;    paddle.sizer = 40 - min(36, (score/50));    draw_stats();  } }boolean bounce_ball_y(){  if (ball.y >= paddle.y && ball.x > paddle.x && ball.x < paddle.x+paddle.sizer) return true;  if (ball.y < 12 + ball.sizer) return true;  return false;}void draw_stats(){  tft.fillRect(0, 0, 128, 12, Color(250, 250, 250).color_16());  jg.draw_string(2, 2, "Score:", Color(0, 50, 250).color_16());  String s = String(score);  jg.draw_string(45, 2, s, Color(0, 50, 250).color_16());  jg.draw_string(78, 2, "Lives:", Color(0, 50, 250).color_16());  String s2 = String(lives);  if ( lives <= 1 ) jg.draw_string(115, 2, s2,  Color(255, 10, 10).color_16());  else if ( lives <= 3 ) jg.draw_string(115, 2, s2, Color(250, 200, 0).color_16());  else jg.draw_string(115, 2, s2, Color(5, 250, 5).color_16());}

Parts

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Parts

Title	Description	#	Cost	Link	Picture
Joy Gamer	Joyous Arduino-Based Gaming machine! Full color LCD screen, Joystick with 3D printed knob and enclosure.	1	$79.95	Link