Friday, January 18, 2019

MakeCode Arcade with Raspberry Pi Zero

Arcade is for retro 2D sprite-based games.

Arcade supports a 160x120 screen with 16 colors, and has a 2D game engine with sprites, platformer-style collisions, tile maps, particle systems and more!

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Arcade is a web-based code editor. 

Just like the MakeCode Circuit Playground Express editor, you can use blocks or JavaScript to build your program in your browser. Nothing to install - it just works!

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Arcade is friendly to beginners! 

Get started with building your own retro games, using the block editor and the many guides. You don't need to be a programmer to get started!

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Arcade is friendly to seasoned programmers too!

Switch to JavaScript and type away. MakeCode supports Static TypeScript, a special flavor of JavaScript optimized for compilation on micro-controllers.

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Arcade runs on hardware (in particular SAMD51)! 

While all games can be shared and played via the web, the fun starts when you compile them for SAMD51-based boards, like the Adafruit Itsy Bitsy M4 Express.

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