Taking A Nokia 3310 Game Jam To The N’th Diploma

Game jams are a enjoyable competitors by which the purpose is to jot down a recreation underneath a specific theme whereas underneath a time constraint, often a weekend.  [Hoani] entered one the place the purpose was to jot down a recreation inside the constraints of the Nokia 3310’s consumer interface: a 94 by 48 pixel gray LCD, a buzzer, and a keypad. His entry was Trick Shot II, a ball-bouncing recreation operating on his recreation engine, which is cool sufficient, however making a custom PCB for a Nokia 3310 case to run it on? Next stage.

Look away for those who don’t like restomods, for an actual Nokia 3310 is gutted to take this board. On it’s a Pi Pico, the Nokia LCD, which has outlasted the unique telephone as a component by a long time, and a Nokia keypad format. The first prototype was not an ideal match as a result of it had a 1.6mm board fairly than 1mm.

The engine in the meantime is written in Go, and has each graphics and sound APIs. Considering that the Pico’s energy exceeds no matter CPU the telephone had by many orders of magnitude, we’d think about it has no issues with such a tiny display screen.

We like the eye to element of this undertaking, and that such a restricted interface can nonetheless ship gaming enjoyable. Meanwhile, for those who would favor to make use of a 3310 as a telephone, you can charge it the 21st-century way.