CosmicPods - tiny shoot- 'em-up game for Arduboy

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Hi everyone! I’m @cubic9com .

Here is my first game for Arduboy.

CosmicPods is a tiny shoot-'em-up game.

As cosmic squid, shoot octopuses up!

Video

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Controls

  • UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT: move the squid
  • A or B: fire

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Looks like fun!

You could simplify the sound generation code by using the ArduboyTones library instead of Arduino tone().

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Thank you! I’ll check that out.

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I like the little octopodes.

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Very cool.

I love that the rocket is constructed from characters … old school style!

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I think the “rocket” is actually supposed to be a squid :squid:

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Right … of course it is !

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Thanks. I also like their shape. They must have come from Mars.

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Thank you! I love character-based objects. Because I learned programming with BASIC on 80’s PC.

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So did I … VIC 20, Commodre 64, Apple ? Which one??