pycoGame

pycoGame is a handheld game console based on Raspberry Pi Pico and a MicroPython library for easy game development inspired by pygame.

More information at http://zveleba.cz/pages/blog/posts/pycogame.html

Content

• Open hardware game console
• MicroPython library pycogame
• Game launcher
• Example games
  • FlappyTux (Flappy Bird clone)
  • Micronoid (Arkanoid clone)
  • MicroMaze 3D (Raycaster maze game)
• Game development tools
  • precompile
  • img2rgb565

Download

Version 1.0

Installation

• Program firmware onto RPi Pico ./micropython/ports/rp2/build-PICO/firmware.uf2
• Copy game launcher files to RPi Pico flash. Easiest tool for that is Thonny IDE, also useful for debugging.
• Copy games to SD Card

Build firmware

• Get submodules and build container

  make setup

• Build

  make build

• Cleanup (optional)

  make cleanup

Pre-compile MicroPython scripts

MicroPython scripts can be pre-compiled for faster execution and reduced memory usage.

This will run the build container and execute make setup if needed.

./precompile.sh games/Test/game.py

Convering images to RGB565 format

Requires python libraries scikit-image and PIL (on fedora: sudo dnf install python3-scikit-image python3-pillow). Multiple images can be converted at once. The script contains workaround for inaccurate colors on the LCD (gamma correction).

Convered images are stored in directory converted and gamma corrected images are kept in directory gamma_corrected, so you can use them to sample the final color value.

./img2rgb565.py img1.png img2.png ...