The Arduino Game Bench

Examples

Each example is made from ordinary blocks. Open one, press the green flag, then change the rules.

Click ▶ Listen to hear a sound, or click the card to add it to your game. The songs are traditional tunes.

Parts wired to your . Use them with the Hardware blocks. In the browser, the keys in the grey boxes press the buttons.

The Arduino Game Bench works like Scratch, but your game runs on a real screen: a 16 × 2 or 20 × 4 character LCD, or a 1.8″ colour TFT. Pick the screen above the stage.

• Pick your screen on the start screen: the character LCD or the colour TFT. Click the logo to come back to it.
• Sprites (actors) are listed under the stage. Click one to see its code and costumes. The + button adds a new one.
• The Stage's backdrop is the level: paint walls and coins in its Backdrop tab.
• x is the column (0 on the left) and y is the row (0 at the top), so "change y by 1" moves down.
• Click the green flag to play. Buttons 1 to 4 are the arrow keys ← → ↑ ↓; buttons 5 to 8 are Z, X, C and V.
• Buttons and LEDs (under the stage) adds parts on your board. Their blocks are in the Hardware category: turn LEDs on and off, dim them, and react to buttons.
• The character LCD holds 8 costume pictures of your own and the colour TFT holds 24. Letters and symbols are free. On the TFT, costumes are 8 × 8 pixels in colour.
• Loops are in Control: forever, repeat, repeat until, wait and wait until. A loop lets the other scripts run at the end of every time round, and wait pauses only its own script, just like Scratch.
• Sounds play on a buzzer. Pick sound effects and songs, or make a tune, in the Sounds tab. Use "start sound" to play one while the game keeps going.
• Upload shows the wiring and gives you the Arduino code.

Credits. The Arduino Game Bench is a free tool from TheSteamPod, made by Kasuadana Sulemana Adams (@opencpv on GitHub).

Games save by themselves in this browser. The Arduino Game Bench, version . The block editor is Blockly by Google (Apache License 2.0). TFT icons are pixelarticons by Gerrit Halfmann (MIT License).