STM32 Based Handheld Brick Breaker Game

Note: This is an university coursework. Permission had been obtained from the module lead to upload the project files to GitHub.

• Introduction
• Gameplay
• Basic Controls
• Game Rules
• Pin Configuations

Introduction

This is a simple brick breaker game, made up of:

• STM32 NUCLEO-F401RE board
• Joystick
• PIMORONI 11x7 LED Matrix Breakout (Powered by an IS31FL3731 driver chip).

The project is created using STM32CubeIDE

Overview:

Gameplay

Game Fail:

Score and Other Info:
Via UART2 (STLink USB) at baud rate 115200, 8 bits data, no parity, 1 stop bit

Clock speed of the game main can be viewed via the flashing frequency of the on board LED (LD2, Green)

Basic Controls

Function	Control
Pause / Continue Game	Short CLICK Pushbutton
Left Shift Paddle	Joystick LEFT
Right Shift Paddle	Joystick RIGHT
Increase Game Clock Speed (Bonus ++)	Joystick UP
Decrease Game Clock Speed (Bonus --)	Joystick DOWN
Engage (Disengage) Autoplay	Long PRESS Pushbutton

Game Rules

Initial Bonus = 1

WIN -> All blocks cleared.

• Score = Score + Bonus
• Game main clock speed automatically increases once, reset bonus: Bonus = 1

LOSE -> Ball fall off from the bottom line

• You lose all the scores

Difficulty Adjustment -> Joystick UP / DOWN

• Increase clock speed: Bonus ++
• Decrease clock speed: Bonus --

Pin Configuations

Pin	State	Connect To
PB6	I2C1_SCL	LED Matrix SCL
PB7	I2C1_SDA	LED Matrix SDA
PA12	GPIO_Input (Pull Up)	Joystick Pushbutton
PA6	ADC1_IN6	Joystick VRX
PA7	ADC1_IN7	Joystick VRY
PB0	ADC1_IN8	Leave Floating (to generate random numbers)
PA5	GPIO_Output	LD2

Important: All Vcc of the peripherals should be connected to 3.3V