Carnegie Mellon student shows that 64 pixels is enough for Mario (video)

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/carnegie-mellon-student-shows-that-64-pixels-is-enough-for-mario/

by aresant • 16 years ago

137 18 16 years ago

jazzychad2• 16 years ago

I need to buy some Arduinos, stat!

jrockway• 16 years ago

A regular computer can draw red and orange squares and accept inputs from buttons too. If you really want to do a hardware project, get an Arduino, but you can easily play with ideas like this without any hardware. And you won't have to write your code in C.

jazzychad2• 16 years ago

Well, I am a C coder at heart and worked on embedded systems not so long ago. This would be right up my alley as a hardware project :)

smackfu• 16 years ago

Yeah, but it looks a lot cooler when the orange squares real.

_mattb• 16 years ago

The arduino's got so many built in methods via Wiring that coding's really not bad. Shockingly easy at times..

SpacemanSpiff• 16 years ago

Looks like the levels and perhaps the idea are based on "Super Pixel Bros" game: http://hackaday.com/2010/02/19/update-most-interesting-game-... Here's a youtube progress update: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avvba3prLlc

Pretty awesome if you ask me.

angelhaze218• 16 years ago

prediction for this years' hottest xmas present - arduino

nitrogen• 16 years ago

Very cool. This would probably work for any tile-based game by assigning a unique color for each tile. The original NES Zelda comes to mind.

derefr• 16 years ago

I experienced precisely this effect, in a before-and-after style, as a gameplay element yesterday. The game started with lots of visual detail, but began to "degrade" as you advanced through it, and at 100% completion every tile was replaced by a single-colored block.

(The game was "REDDER": http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=540)

mquander• 16 years ago

Holy crap, nice game! Hats off to you.

patrickgzill• 16 years ago

I was a little surprised because I thought everyone knew that if you bumped one of the first blocks with your head, you got a coin ...

nwinter• 16 years ago

Whoa, that's my girlfriend! So proud. Weird to see this after not being online for a week while traveling with her.

nsrivast• 16 years ago

hold on to that one

ynniv• 16 years ago

Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179745

pnz• 16 years ago

why does she talk like homestar runner?

pmichaud• 16 years ago

It sounds like she may have some minor hearing problems, but I think your social disabilities probably have a much greater affect on you than her disability has on her.

albemuth• 16 years ago

to bad she didn't hook it up to a NES controller, should have been trivial no?

charlesju• 16 years ago

I'm waiting for someone to port this onto a building using the lights as LEDs.

Carnegie Mellon student shows that 64 pixels is enough for Mario (video)

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