RPi Game Shuttle

Inspiration

We love playing minigames, and having a series of them to encourage our dreams of being astronauts (once) would be super enjoyable to make and play through. We also wanted to use tactile functionality to be able to play our game through, using joystick controls similar to those in an aircraft.

What it does

RPi Game Shuttle has two in-built minigames - one that acts a space debris shooter, avoiding and destroying flying asteroids as they near you, and another where you use your mouse to point to a section on the map, guessing where exactly the ISS could be stationed above you.

How we built it

We used pure Pygame (and PIL for image processing) in order to build the project.

Challenges we ran into

The hardest part was ensuring the numerous conditions and collisions for the shooter worked and were effective. Having a final working product was our goal - and geting the full Raspberry Pi mouse functionality was equally difficult as well.

What we learned

None of us previously knew how to use Pygame, which meant that learning all of its mechanics and using it to its full potential for a difficult game was super hard - luckily, this was an obstacle we eventually overcame.