Programming games in Ada on the modern Adafruit PyGamer platform #Ada #PyGamer #FeatherFriday @DesChips
Fabien Chouteau appeared on Adafruit Show and Tell recently and demonstrated a Shoot-n-Loot, a sophisticated graphics game written all in Ada! Yes, Ada! Fabien did have to write device drivers for the hardware on an Adafruit PyGamer, but the results are stunning.
shoot-n-loot
A little platform and shoot game for the Adafruit PyGamer.
If you have PyGamer:
- Connect the PyGamer to your computer with a good USB cable
- Turn on the PyGamer
- Double-click the reset button to enable the UF2 bootloader
- A
PYGAMERBOOTdisk drive should appear on your computer- Download this file: shoot_n_loot.uf2
- Drag and drop
shoot_n_loot.uf2in thePYGAMERBOOTdisk drive- After the short time, the PyGamer should reboot and the game will start
See the GitHub repo for details.
