jordymoos/led-games

The code of Playing games in your Christmas tree

Led Games

The code base to play games in your led strips.

With gaming in your Christmas tree as an example

Video tutorial

You can check this video tutorial explaining how the project works

Installation

Check out the repository

git clone [email protected]:JordyMoos/led-games.git

Configure the led controller

The leds are controller by a Teensy and the code is located here:

./src/led-controller/led-controller.ino

You should change these values to match your led setup.

const int ledsPerStrip = 100;
const int strips = 8;

And after that you should upload that file to your Teensy.

See the official teensy documentation how that is done.

Run the game engine

Go to the game engine directory

cd src/game-engine

Install the python dependencies

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the game engine:

python3 ./main.py run snake

Tip: Use the virtual renderer if you do not have the leds

python3 ./main.py run snake --renderer PYGAME

Use the list command to view the games

python3 ./main.py list

Run the command with the -h flag to see the options

python3 ./main.py run -h

Optionally: You can change the default settings in defaults.py

Game Controls

The game engine has these buttons defined

In code	Description
Buttons.up	Used for movement / navigation
Buttons.right	Used for movement / navigation
Buttons.down	Used for movement / navigation
Buttons.left	Used for movement / navigation
Buttons.ok	The default "submit" button. Used in TicTacToe to select a field
Buttons.cancel	Not used yet
Buttons.start	Not used yet - it is meant to get into the game menu
Buttons.select	Not used yet

Player One Keyboard

In code	Key on keyboard
Buttons.up	w
Buttons.right	d
Buttons.down	s
Buttons.left	a
Buttons.ok	q
Buttons.cancel	e
Buttons.start	z
Buttons.select	x

Player Two Keyboard

In code	Key on keyboard
Buttons.up	i
Buttons.right	l
Buttons.down	k
Buttons.left	j
Buttons.ok	u
Buttons.cancel	o
Buttons.start	m
Buttons.select	, (Comma)

DualShock 4

In code	On controller
Buttons.up	Left stick up
Buttons.right	Left stick right
Buttons.down	Left stick down
Buttons.left	Left stick left
Buttons.ok	X
Buttons.cancel	O
Buttons.start	Options
Buttons.select	Share