Overview of building a Raspberry Pi arcade system.  First build was a Raspberry Pi (1) Model B and the second build was a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.  Explanation of what components and tools are needed.  Installation the RetroPie operating system and configuration of Retrogame software to convert joystick movement and button presses into simulation key presses.

Links and Notes

• Labyrinth by James, early access on Steam – https://store.steampowered.com/app/1456900/Labyrinth/?beta=0
• Adafruit, Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi – https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi
• Building Raspberry Pi arcade – https://levidsmith.com/my-raspberry-pi-arcade/
• Raspberry Pi arcade update – https://levidsmith.com/raspberry-pi-arcade-update/
• RetroPie – https://retropie.org.uk/
• Retrogame keyboard simulation – https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi/adding-controls-software
• Joystick – https://www.adafruit.com/product/480
• Buttons – https://www.adafruit.com/product/474
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Raspberry Pi Arcade - Knox Game Design, November 2020

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An overview of creating a game with MonoGame.  Installation of MonoGame development environment using Visual Studio.  Handling input devices such as keyboard, gamepad, and mouse. How to load assets such as sound effects, music, fonts, and sprite images.  Examples of simple number guessing game and space shooter in MonoGame and C#.  How to convert an XNA game to MonoGame.

Hosted by Levi D. Smith

MonoGame source code – https://github.com/levidsmith/MonoGameExamples

Links and Notes

• MonoGame – https://www.monogame.net/
• XNA to MonoGame guide by Levi D. Smith – XnaToMonogame.pdf
• XNA Game Studio Redistributable Font Pack – https://github.com/SimonDarksideJ/XNAGameStudio/wiki/Redistributable-Font-Pack
• Beginning MonoGame – http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/06/232974.aspx
• MonoGame Tutorial – https://gamefromscratch.com/monogame-tutorial-series/
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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MonoGame - Knox Game Design, September 2020

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An overview of BBS (Bulletin Board System) games from the 1990s.  How to connect to a telnet BBS to play DOOR games.  Creating ANSI graphics with ACiD draw in DOSBox.  VT100 color codes explained.  A simple telnet server created in Ruby, which displays system time, counts to ten, displays an ANSI file, and has a number guessing game.

Hosted by Levi D. Smith

Ruby source code – https://github.com/levidsmith/SimpleRubyServer

Links and Notes

• Telnet BBS Guide – https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
• VT100 codes – http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php
• VT100 codes – http://www.climagic.org/mirrors/VT100_Escape_Codes.html
• VT100 codes – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSI_sequences
• Old School Font PC Resource – https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/download/
• Telnet protocol – https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc854
• ACiD Productions (ACiDDraw) – http://www.acid.org/
• PuTTY – https://putty.org/
• DOSBox – https://www.dosbox.com/
• Ruby – https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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BBS Games, VT100, and ANSI Graphics - Knox Game Design August 2020

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An overview of color for game developers.  How various colors are made on the computer using RGB and HSV formats.  The color spectrum and the ROY G BIV order for colors.  Where visible color exists on the electromagnetic wavelength scale.  Color displays on CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and LED (Light Emitting Diode) devices.  Converting between color representation in float, decimal, and hex formats.  Difference between hue, saturation, and value.  Various modifiers in the Gimp image editor such as Colorize, Posterize, Color Balance, and layers.  Console color palettes and historical video modes.  Color pickers and other tools for making color themes.

Links and Notes

• Color wheel from Adobe – https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
• Color Picker – https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Color - Knox Game Design, July 2020

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This month we learn how to create games in Python using the Pygame library.

1:30 – News
6:13 – Showoff: Unity Helper and new leaderboard features
11:47 – Pygame (feature presentation)

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Links and Notes

• Pygame examples (Number Guess, Shooter, Koi-Koi) – https://github.com/levidsmith/PythonProjects
• Python download site – www.python.org/downloads
• Pygame site – https://www.pygame.org/news
• Procedurally Generating Potted Plants in Unity – https://www.dylanwolf.com/2020/05/11/ludum-dare-46-procedurally-generating-potted-plants-in-unity/
• Dylan’s Pico-8 talk at Momocon – https://www.knoxgamedesign.org/1361/joy-of-game-development-momocon-2020/
• Unreal Engine 5 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WHnY-hcFro
• KnoxPy – https://knoxpy.org/
• Jared’s Dungeon Game in Java – https://github.com/BlackJar72/DungeonGame
• Levi’s UnityHelper application in Ruby – https://github.com/levidsmith/UnityHelper
• Theme music – Ride by Pocketmaster

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Pygame - Knox Game Design, June 2020

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