Flappy Bird Console
Hardware
By
@artitule
- 6 Devlogs
- 26 Total hours
A developed PCB, firmware and 3D Printable case for a DIY console that runs Flappy Bird.
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Devlog Time!!
Finally added the animations for landing 
and taking off 
. You can see them attached.
Among minor bug fixes i implemented:
- Landing and Takeoff animation.
- Setting in settings menu to enable and disable the animations(in case they get boring)
- Added a way to see if the level is locked, unlocked or cleared(completed)
Since there is no game engines written for AVR microcontrollers the animation took a long time to implement because i need to draw each frame of it by hand to the buffer and then to the screen. But i definitely learned a lot about how to interact with each element on its own.
Now i am slowly preparing to ship the project but until then i will keep coding! 
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3h 34m 52s logged
Devlog Time!!
Finally worked on the level ending.(before the game had no ending and no way to complete the levels
)
- Now the levels have a cool ending screen and an option to play the ENDLESS MODE.
- Also a new feature is that you now need to beat previous levels before advancing to the next. I think this way an endless game has more “story” i guess.
The next thing i will be working on is a cool landing animation.
In the meantime Keep Coding!
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2h 51m 51s logged
Devlog Time!! After adding more graphics to the game i saw some frame drops so i added the ability to toggle some of the more performance heavy ones. That is how the Settings menu was born. Not a lot of changes for this devlog but in the meantime, Keep coding 
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5h 49m 8s logged
Devlog Time!! Mainly worked on the GUI this time now the level select screen has a cute planet picture :3. Also added a moon surface looking background to the level. Spent like 30 minutes trying to align everything but now i am really good at math(specifically dividing by 2). Keep coding 🙃
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3h 20m 32s logged
Finally rewrote the code to work with PlatformIO. Code compilation is a lot faster now. Struggled on splitting the ArduinoIDE “Tabs” into actual files but this is a lot better than the old mess.
