Submarine Game | Charbel Estephan

THE GOAL

Build a playable game with no engine and no built-in input handling to lean on. Everything from pixel rendering to collision detection had to be written from scratch, as a team, in raw MIPS assembly.

Pixel-based graphics rendered directly to the MARS bitmap display
Collision detection and a three-life system built without any engine
Background animation, music, and sound effects, all hand-written in assembly
Built with a team on the MARS4_5 simulator

Submarine Game — MARS4_5 gameplay

Gameplay footage of a full run: the submarine dodging sharks underwater with the three-life counter and pixel graphics described below, all rendered by hand with no engine underneath.

HOW IT WORKS

The game draws pixel-based graphics directly to the MARS bitmap display, detects collisions between the submarine and the sharks in software, and tracks a three-life system with a menu and background animation, all hand-written in assembly, music and sound effects included. Players dodge sharks underwater using just the W and S keys, with three lives before it's game over.

SOURCE ↗

SIMULATORMARS4_5

CONTROLSW / S KEYS

LIVES3

ENGINENONE — RAW MIPS

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