Space Ores (Arduino Uno)

"Life isn't easy for an ore miner in space."

The Game

• Premise: you play as a simple mining vessel in space. Your goal is to evade obstacles while taking the ores you gathered to HQ. Though some obstacles are mindless rocks, others have a mind (read: movement pattern) of their own!
• Gameplay: in this one-button game, you change change lanes by pressing the (single) button.
• Your goal: survive navigating your vessel through four different levels, of which the final level is a 'boss level'!

The Arduino Uno build

• The Arduino Uno build itself is not too difficult to create. The LCD screen and the one-button are the most important parts. You can play the game perfectly without the (audio)speaker and/or pause button.
• The screen is a 16x2 LCD display screen with I2C interface (so no soldering!).

If there is demand, I can see if I can generate a schematic which might be easier to read than the picture of the setup.

The Code and Tools

• Initial idea inspired by the 'endless runner' on Arduino: https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-LCD-Game/ 
• "Custom Character Generator" was used to make my life easy in creating the 5x8 sprites on the LCD: https://omerk.github.io/lcdchargen/ 
• The game uses the "LiquidCrystal I2C" library (by Frank de Brabander), which can be easily installed via the Arduino IDE.

I'm not a programmer, but the code does what it needs to do: work! ;) Feel free to download and play around with it. Maybe you can create some new levels or enemies. Have fun!