A fully-featured game engine that takes a game designed in PowerPoint (Yes, really!) and creates a Verilog design ready to be uploaded to an FPGA. The project is no longer maintained, but it should work as it is right now.
The engine has support for:
- Multiple scenes and transitions between them.
- Nearly an unlimited number of "objects" in the scene.
- Animations, collision detection and gravity.
- Picture compression to minimize the memory usage
- Support for both Block-RAM and raw register picture storage.
- Transparency support (Unlimited layers) (Some bugs are still present in the rasterizer)
- Mouse and keyboard support (PS2 only)
- Support for multiple user scripts
- Most of the internal variables can be exposed in a safe way.
- Sprite support (Max 255 sprites per picture)
Tested with MAX10 and Cyclone V FPGAs
Supported Tags and their Operations
[NAME=______]; Gives the object a name. This is need on all objects and pictures.
[MOVEABLE]; Tells the compiler to make this object movable. If you use this tag and don’t give it a desired way of movement. Then it will add the nameX and nameY to the header of the file.
[BORDER]; Lets the compiler know to bounce it off the giver border or the edges of the screen.
[TRANSPARENT]; Let the compiler know to use the object or pictures set transparency.
[BOUNCING]; This tells the compiler to make the object bounce around the screen.
[AnimationSpeed=___]; The speed the object will travel per frame refresh (60 screen refreshes per second)(speed in in pixels).
[MEMORY]; Tell the compiler to store the picture into ram.
[COMPRESIONLEVEL=___]; How much you would like to compress the image. Default is one.
[CURSOR]; Tells the compiler to make this object controlled by the mouse. [COLORBITS=____]; How many bits you wish to use for each color (RGB). Only use this if the image is not being stored in memory.
[WASDMovement]; This object will move with the “wasd” keys. Must also have the tag [MOVEABLE];
[ARROWMovement]; This object will move with the arrow keys. Must also have the tag [MOVEABLE];
[SKIPX]; or [SKIPY]; Tell the compiler you wish to skip part of the picture.
[VISIBLE]; Tell the compiler you wish to control when this picture is visible.
