paddle-game VS invaders

Web Serial API would also mean one could create an Atari-style paddle controller to go with this game, kind of like this project: https://github.com/drohen/paddle-game

Once you get a bit of experience, have a go at building this: https://github.com/drohen/paddle-game it is something I put together in my spare time in a week, you might have fun replicating it.

I have a bunch of notes and the code is available on github. Feel free to ask any questions!

The repo is on github, and I've added a bunch of notes on how it all works. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

I recently completed a one week personal challenge to build something interesting using just a potentiometer and button. I am learning more about the web serial api, and decided to connect these components to a pico, read the values and send it to a web app. I wanted to build something fun and music, so I created this elektroplankton-inspired game at the same time. The code is available, open source, along with the live app. I will update the documentation shortly. The code for the pico is also available, and can be adapted to an arduino or whatever. Considering how easy and fun this was, I'm hopeful that the web serial api is here to stay.

I think that this project could just as easily work with an arduino uno, and of course, the code could easily be adapted. I only have a few final things I need to do in the app before I feel like I can say this is completed and move on to writing a full reflection and possibly a guide on how I did this. The code for the app and the pico is available on github, I will update all the readme and code comments to make it easier to follow along. I'll post a video as well demonstrating it all working.

I created challenge for the Raspberry Pico subreddit to try and build something out of a potentiometer and button. And my idea is summarised in the title of this post. This is the code but as of this post it isn't presented super well, just wanted to finish the proof of concept before creating more structure. I'm using a bunch of nice little utility libraries, and ToneJS. The plan is to connect the app to my custom controller using the Web Serial API.

Some of my code is here: https://github.com/JustinLloyd/invaders (Typescript with some HTML/CSS for browser) that is used on my C.V. website here: https://justin-lloyd.com/

My open source game projects are generally one shots, e.g. https://github.com/JustinLloyd/invaders requiring very little in the way of updates because I don't have the time to commit to ongoing maintenance.

These sorts of games are incredibly fun to write in modern languages, especially if you are given a canvas and the ability to blit graphics around without much concern for memory usage or blit speed.

Obligatory self-promotion: https://justin-lloyd.com/ which is my C.V. site that includes a 1970's-era space invaders style game based on the portable Galaxy Invaders 1000 game.

https://github.com/JustinLloyd/invaders

"Invaders from 78" is written in Typescript, implements a small ECS framework, uses Pixi for canvas rendering, and is event driven. No audio because, well... it's a C.V. website. It also doesn't work on mobile because the audience numbers for mobile visitors to my C.V. website is near enough zero that it would be wasted effort. Please excuse any front-end sins I may have committed because I generally don't do front-end web dev.