WONDERFULLY DOOR-KEY: DARIUS KAZEMI’S MEGGY JR RGB ROGUE-LIKE

Oh! This is wicked: Offworld launched with news that electronics kit manufacturer Evil Mad Scientist had begun shipping their Meggy Jr RGB DIY handheld gaming kit: the gorgeously ultra low-res 8×8 LED portable that was nothing if not the kid-friendly, Game Boy version of Toshio Iwai’s Tenori-On.

The kit shipped with one game, a “pixel-blasting side-scrolling shoot-em-up” called Attack of the Cherry Tomatoes, but the purpose, of course, was to roll your own creations with the Arduino SDK.

I honestly have been lax in following the Meggy Jr. scene to see what people have been coming up with, but friend of Offworld Darius Kazemi has just revealed some work in progress videos of his first game. Fittingly, for its resolution, it’s a rogue-like with ASCII symbols here replaced by those pale-lit-color-baubles, and I’m enamored with the way the screen lights up with the key icon once you’ve picked one up. You can see more of the design ideas behind his game via this earlier post.

Has anyone else out there created or come across any other Meggy projects of note?

Keys and Doors are Working [Tiny Subversions]

Previously:
Pixel on with Meggy Jr RGB – Offworld