Appendices

Appendix A: Permissions

The group approves this report for inclusion on the course website.

The group approves the video for inclusion on the course youtube channel.

The code for our project is available on GitHub here

See Hardware page.

Tangia worked on:

Modified VGA driver to allow for fast screen drawing of designs and mono-colored tiles
Developed transparent character block drawing algorithm
Developed laying out tiles and levels using minimal computation and memory
Developed code for modular storage of character information
Developed code for player movement and terrain collision detection
Developed code and timing constraints for improved player experience
Developed game logic for interacting with passive and active entities
Developed game logic for hitbox/hurtbox manipulation
Developed structure to create interactables and levels
Developed initialization for the game and interactables
Developed enemy pathfinding algorithm
Developed structure for Single Sequence Events
Developed game-to-player dialogue system
Developed game structure for threads and runtime
Developed the overlay to display game state information
Modified a template from CloudCannon to develop this website

Emily worked on:

Researched and tested 4-bit color for VGA screen
Wired both breadboards used by group for VGA and sound output
Supported early development of sound effects DMA-sequencing code with Max
Designed all tiles used in the game using Google Sheets (see Program Design)
Developed Python script to translate tile design to format required by the program
Designed all (9) screens used in the demo level
Developed Python script to translate screen designs into desired format
Encoded wall masks for all screens
Encoded interactables for all screens
Iterated on level design based on feedback from partners and appearance on VGA display
As a result play tested the game many many times
Worked with Tangia to make sure all designs were implemented compatibly with the game engine

Max worked on:

Developed sound effects DMA code with Emily
Recorded all sound effects
Developed Python script to extract binary content of sound effects
Developed music code from DDS demo
Integrated music and sound effects code into game code; debugged all sound in-game
Modified code that receives serial character inputs to act on “WASD,” etc
Converted Jekyll website to HTML