Matrixman is low-resolution take on the classic game of Pac-Man. I've been calling this "1-Pixel Pac-Man" because the player is just 1-pixel in size. I wrote all of the code for the game, following along with the rules of the original as are described by the Pac-Man Dossier.
The display used in this project is a Smartmatrix. It's a 32x32 RGB LED panel driven by a Teensy 3.1 Microcontroller. I soldered a DB9 connector to the Teensy 3.1 in order to interface an Atari joystick as the user input.
Full build information can be found on my Hackaday.io project page.
The main branch is designed for Teensy 3.1 and can be compiled using the Arduino IDE and a few libraries:
I actually coded most of this without the hardware in hand. To do so I wrote a simulator using SDL2. It's simply a grid of 32x32 boxes that serves as a stand-in for the SmartMatrix. The game code itself is rather complex and this really sped up development time. Because of this I've kept the code in this repository abstracted so that game changes can easily be merged between branches.
Install the SDL2 library:
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
Launch the simulator by typing make
The only file that should be different between the 'master' (teensy 3.1) and the hardware_emulator (SDL2 based) branches is the matrixman.c which includes all of the hardware specific functions. If additional functions are needed these should be implemented in both branches (even if the function is blank) and added to the matrixman.h headerfile. All other files should be merged between branches to keep the repo current.