This game is a slight remake for the ESPboy handheld of the famous Dinosaur Game, also known as the Chrome Dino, a browser game developed by Google and built into the Google Chrome web browser. The player guides a pixelated Tyrannosaurus Rex across a side-scrolling landscape, avoiding obstacles to achieve a higher score. The game was created by members of the Chrome UX team in 2014.
Dino for ESPboy is a basic casual game. Still it's mostly a project to provide you with a fairly complete example of how to make nice games with ESPboy library, using cool graphics, 8-bit sound effects, and the onboard NeoPixel LED.
Dino is a one-button runner game.
Just press the [A] button to jump and get the highest score possible.
The code also relies on the following libraries:
- LovyanGFX for graphic display
- ESPboy_Playtune for sound effects
- FixedPointsArduino to optimize some arithmetic calculations
The sound effects have been converted into a format suitable for ESPboy_Playtune library using midi2tones, which is a very handy tool.
The cute dino sprite is a creation of @ArksDigital.
I want to thank the authors of these tools and assets.
You can easily install and test the Dino game on your ESPboy right away (without having to compile the project) using online ESPboy Flasher. This tool is only supported by Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
