blockdude_aka

Blokdude is a remake of the well known TI Caluculator game from Brandon Sterner as well as the blockman game from Soleau Software for gamebuino aka, ported from gp2x version

---

Project maintained by joyrider3774 Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham

Blockdude for the Gamebuino AKA

A port of the GP2X version of Blockdude to the Gamebuino AKA. Blockdude is a puzzle game: walk, climb and carry blocks to build your way up to the door of each level. It comes with two level packs (blockman, by Soleau Software, and joyrider), three skins next to the default one, and the level editor of the GP2X version, so you can make level packs of your own on the AKA. The graphics, sounds and music are the GP2X version’s, at the same 320x240 the AKA’s screen has.

Controls

AKA	In a level	In the menus and the level select	In the level editor
D-pad / joystick	walk; walking into a block or a step you can climb jumps onto it	choose; left / right change the level pack, the level or the volume	move the cursor
A / up	jump onto a block or step up	select	place the part
C	pick up / put down a block	delete a level (editor, not in blockman or joyrider)	center the level
D	held with the d-pad: look around	new level (editor)	erase all parts
B	start the level over		test the level
L1 / R1	next skin / next music	previous skin; 5 levels back / on	previous / next part
MENU	back to the level select	back	back (asks to save a changed level)

The volume is on the title screen. Quit in the title screen’s menu, or RUN + MENU held for half a second anywhere in the game, goes back to the launcher; RUN on its own switches the AKA off as in every game.

The GP2X had more buttons than the AKA: its B jumped as A does, and in the level editor it hid the grid and the cursor’s position, which always show here.

Installing

Copy the SD_files/BLOCKDUDE folder to the root of the SD card and start Blockdude from the launcher. The folder holds firmware.bin, meta.json, screen.bmp, the music, the level packs in levelpacks/, the skins in skins/ and the LICENSE. The game writes its volume and skin to settings.dat there, and the levels you unlocked in a pack to <pack>.dat. Level packs made with the level editor are folders in levelpacks/, the same .lev files the GP2X version used, so packs can go from one to the other.

Building

ESP-IDF 5.5 and the official Gamebuino AKA library, which is used where it is checked out (C:/github/Gamebuino_AKA_lib by default, or set AKA_LIB_DIR):

idf.py set-target esp32s3
idf.py build

build/blockdude.bin is copied to SD_files/BLOCKDUDE/firmware.bin by the build.

The graphics, fonts, sounds, music, skins and level packs are the GP2X version’s original files in assets/, converted by tools/convert_assets.py (Pillow, and ffmpeg for the sounds and music):

python tools/convert_assets.py <ffmpeg>

It writes main/assets/assets.bin (the default skin, the fonts and the sounds, built into the firmware) and the SD card folder’s music, skins, level packs and screen.bmp.

Changes from the GP2X version

• Fixed bugs of the GP2X version:
  • Only the first door of a level counted.
  • Putting a block down on your right happened even when there was no room for it.
  • A damaged <pack>.dat made the game read past its unlock table.
  • A level with too many parts wrote past the end of the list of parts.
• Fixes taken over from the later Playdate version:
  • Jumping with a block under a low ceiling put you inside the block.
  • The view of levels as wide or as high as the screen lost a column or row.
  • Holding C dropped and picked up the block over and over.
  • Blocks no longer fall into or stand in a door.
  • Boxes are drawn on their last spot before the “solved” message.
  • Auto jump: walking into something you can climb jumps onto it. Turning around to face it takes the time of a step, so you turn first and then jump.
• An empty level select shows nothing instead of the level before it.
• The level packs that come with the game, blockman and joyrider, and their levels can not be deleted in the level editor. The joyrider pack has its first two levels only.
• The TV out screen position, the USB joystick set up and the volume buttons of the GP2X are gone; the volume is on the title screen instead.

Source layout

The GP2X version was a single blockdude.cpp, split up here:

File	What it is
main/main.cpp	start up and the state loop
main/titlescreen.cpp, credits.cpp, stageselect.cpp, game.cpp, leveleditormenu.cpp, leveleditor.cpp	one file per game state
main/CWorldParts.cpp	the level, its view and its parts: the player, the blocks, floors, doors
main/CSelector.cpp	the level editor’s cursor
main/gamefuncs.cpp, commonvars.cpp	what the states share: volume, settings, skins, level packs, unlocking, the message boxes, typing a name
main/gfx.cpp, sound.cpp, input.cpp, platform.cpp	what SDL did on the GP2X, on the AKA library

Credits

Blockdude GP2X is created by Willems Davy aka Joyrider, Willems Soft 2006.

Music is created by donskeeto!

The Blockman levels are created by Soleau Software - www.soleau.com.

The default graphics skin was created by Chris Katiesen for Klas Kroon’s remake of Blockdude/Blockman - oos.moxiecode.com.

Blockdude for the TI-83 was created by Brandon Sterner.

The FP_Tech and FP_Default_2.0 skins are created by Fusion_Power! Thanks a lot man.

License

MIT, see LICENSE.