Difference between revisions of "Meggy Jr Projects"

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Independent Reviews of Meggy Jr RGB:

Review from JoeTech.com

Review from Das Handheldblog (German language)

Review from circumjacence.com (rehosted at archive.org)

Review from roborant.info (rehosted at archive.org)

Japanese language notes with video

Review from NScientia (No longer available.)

Review from Techlore.com (No longer available.)

General Info + Links:

General FAQ - Meggy Jr RGB FAQ with lots of good info, read first.

How to make a Meggy Cozy

MeggyCade Jr, a project to make Meggy into a tabletop arcade game.

How to connect two Meggies for dual game play

Games:

Lucky World – a full featured jump'n'run game. This game has 16+ levels, canons, monsters, moving platforms, hidden portals and a nice presentation with an intro and level selection screen.

Revival Studios - Developer of various Meggy Jr games

Arm-E - A twist on space invaders, with robotic arm goodness. Also includes a rudimentary actor and sound framework to make development a little simpler.

Sapper - Mine sweeping game

Ball_Buster - Ping Pong and avoid type game

Meggy Says - A nice version of Simon says for the Meggy.

Space Invaders - A great game of space invaders(Original Forum Post)(Google Code Download)

Flippin Bits site - lots of good games and a simulator to boot

Super Monkey Kong - Barrels upon barrels of Donkey Kong mayhem! (Google Code Download)

Dot - Capture the sun and avoid getting rained on! (more info at the Make post)

Begemmed - Not feature-complete yet: there's no sound, it doesn't prevent illegal moves, and it doesn't check to see when there are no moves left and the game's over. But it is playable, so I thought I'd throw it out there for people to play with.

Peg Solitare - Centuries old game you will surely recognize. Source provided so you can easily change the board from English to European.

Attack v3 - NOTE: this is NOT the new game that is included with the v1.4 library! Based on the original Attack of the Cherry Tomatoes and enhanced by Emo Mosley. Included features: score keeping, scrolling text, spare ships, laser and spare ship indicators, some more sounds. (Project page)

Google Code project site - This is the main repository; Many other games including:

• Ball Buster
• Gem Keeper
• Fireman Fireman
• Plasma - although not technically a game, it is fun. (There is a secret version of Fireman Fireman that uses Plasma as a background, but you have to be really special to have it.)
• MeggyChip a game for two Meggies

Included with the Meggy Jr Library (v 1.4) (Available here):

• Attack of the Cherry Tomatoes (the built-in game)
• Revenge of the Cherry Tomatoes (the sequel)
• Froggy Jr (Frogger clone)

Non-game applications:

mjsim Simulator for AVR assembly code and emulator for the MeggyJr

Backup & Restore EEPROM - A simple way to save the contents of the EEPROM on your computer and load them back in later

MeggyTwit - Scrolling-text Twitter reader for Meggy Jr RGB

Color Cube - Color switching program for the Meggy

Color Life Game - the game of life for Meggy, in full color!(Forum Post)(Video)

Meggy Jr Remote Push: Python script to draw to Meggy Jr. RGB a grid of colors stored on web server (requires Windell's MeggyJr_RemoteDraw Arduino sketch)

Included with the Meggy Jr Library (v 1.3) (Available here):

• Meggy Brite (drawing app)
• Binary Clock
• ScrollText (readerboard app)

MeggySeq: MeggySeq is a step sequencer which sends values over a serial connection to another device, such as an Arduino with a Wave Shield attached.

Meggy Etch - A simple Etch-a-sketch program for Meggy.

Meggy Synth - A simple step-based synthesizer for playing music on the speaker.

Videos:

Sneggy - A snake game for Meggy Jr RGB

Time Lapse Build Video - (Direct Link)

Meggy Jr. Video

Another Meggy Jr. Video

Make Video and post by Collin

Super Monkey Kong Video