tinyKnight is a simple game made for micropython on the Cardputer.

Installation

1. Flash your cardputer with the S3LCD MicroPython firmware (found here).
2. Copy the files from the tinyKnight folder in this repo to your cardputer using a MicroPython IDE (like Thonny).
3. Turn on the cardputer and the game should start.

Notes

Why not use the stock micropython firmware?

The Cardputer uses the ST7789 display driver for its 240x135 LCD. To get the most out of it and play the game at a reasonable framerate we use S3LCD which is a driver written in C and baked into the MicroPython firmware linked above. This performs ~10 times faster than using a similar driver written in Python (like this).

How do I change/edit/update the sprites?

Included in this repo is sprites2bitmap.py from the s3lcd library, this will convert the sprites (knight_sprites.png) to python code. To do this just running the command python sprites2bitmap.py knight_sprites.png 16 28 3 > tinyKnight/knight_sprites.py will update the sprites. Feel free to have fun, change the colour of our tinyKnight or make your own character to play with.

To-do

• Save high scores (maybe even publish online)
• Powerups (temp invincibility, speed boost, etc)