Monday, August 5, 2013

Dartboard Hack - Software Design Ideas

The Dartboard Hack (or Mack?) will require several pieces of software:


  • Arduino sketch running on boarduino to read dartboard and send data to the game engine
  • Game engine - python/pygame running on RPi
  • Android app to remote control game over bluetooth
I have a bit of programming experience, but none of it falls within any of the 3 realms listed above.
The game engine will be the meat of the system, so I started learning python and pygame.

I spent a weekend writing an intro animation.  It could use some refactoring... like using an actual game engine structure with some FPS BS... but that's not really important to me at the moment.  I will create the proper game engine structure when I get into the dart game engine and maybe retrofit the intro later.

The intro pays homage to the classic game Jumpman.  I borrowed some sounds and sprites from another project,so I think I'll make sure it's ok to use them before putting them on here.

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