A simple arcade style mouse shooter made for the DE1-SoC FPGA. Final lab for UW CSE 371 Winter 2021.
Mouse to aim, LMB to shoot. Up to 8 red enemies spawn at the top of the screen and move downwards. Game ends when an enemy touches the bottom of the screen. Enemies move faster over time.
Most of my work is in the assets/, scripts/ and zhoot/ folders as well as the top level module DE1_SoC.sv, involving just the game logic and graphics. The rest of the files were provided by the course as starter files, including the PS/2 mouse driver and VGA video driver.
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Images in assets/ were ran through scripts/image_to_SV_array.py to convert them into 2D SystemVerilog arrays that were then inferred as block RAM during synthesis and then rendered using the VGA driver in video/video_driver.sv that constantly scans through, modifies and renders each pixel in the 640x480 framebuffer.
A process similar to graphics is done for audio, using scripts/mp3_to_mif.py to store the raw audio samples to a ROM to be played by the onboard DAC.