[Microbit-Python] Failed attempt at Whack-A-Mole

[David Whale]

Really pleased to see the virtual canvas idea - I was working on one of
those for Touch Develop, but there are bugs in the canvas handling at the
moment that have not had fixes pushed to the live server, so I paused that
activity while I waited for them to catch up (the emulator does not plot
pixels outside of [0,0]->[4,4] on an in memory image, but the micro:bit
runtime does).

I was thinking of accelerometer tilt driven mazes, a bit like a 5x5 window
on one of those rolling ball bearing maze games.

D


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On 6 October 2015 at 12:24, Damien George <damien.p.george at gmail.com> wrote:

> As for RAM limitations... I am working on it!
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Attached is my test harness for my virtual screen technology.  Load that
> in
> > using upyed download firmware and reset.  You can now scroll an image
> around
> > on the screen of four hollow boxes.  The full image looks like so:
> >
> > ...........
> > .XXX.......
> > .X.X.......
> > .XXX.......
> > .XXXXXX....
> > .X.XX.X....
> > .XXXXXX....
> > .......XXX.
> > .......X.X.
> > .......XXX.
> > ...........
> >
> > The scrolling is responsive and debounced.
> >
> >
> > Attached also is my attempt to turn that screen scrolling technology
> into a
> > game of Whack-A-Mole.  The game draws one square per second; your goal
> is to
> > scroll the screen so that the center is pointed at that square and press
> > either button.  I run out of memory while compiling.
> >
> > I had some neat ideas for games, but if I'm this limited on RAM, well...
> > sigh.
> >
> > Can anybody get Whack-A-Mole to run?
> >
> >
> > /arry
> >
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