Ball-in-maze Game Shows Creativity And Classic 8-bit Sound

[M. Eric Carr] built this a long time ago as his Senior Project for EET480. It’s an electronic version of the ball-in-maze game. We’ve embedded this video after the break for your convenience.

The game has just one input; an accelerometer. If you’re having trouble visualizing the game, it works the same as this Android-based version, but replaces the physical maze and marble with a virtual maze on the graphic LCD screen. This has huge implications. Instead of just recreating the maze on the screen, [Eric] designed a multi-screen world, complete with warp blocks, which adds difficulty to  finding a solution. It also means that multiple different mazes can be played if you get tired of playing the same level.

This game also features music. A separate PIC microcontroller uses PWM to push out the 8-bit sound heard in the video. From the YouTube comments we learned that [Eric] didn’t write the music himself, but we still appreciate the playback quality he achieves with his hardware.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aeBRolStkU&w=470]

[via Reddit]

4 thoughts on “Ball-in-maze Game Shows Creativity And Classic 8-bit Sound

  1. You don’t have to read the Youtube comments to learn where the music comes from. He says right in the end credits that it’s a tune from Praetorius (a goodly old fellow).

    A good old plain no frills fun project like they don’t make anymore. Thumbs up !

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