This is Arkanoid (Breakout) game for the RaspBerry Pi with add-on board Sense Hat. It is writen in Python with support sensehat library. The pygame library is also required. The complete source code is in the file arkanoid.py. You can use both python2 and python3.

• Raspberry Pi
• Sense Hat

• Up-to-date Raspbian

Download this repo and run arkanoid.py with Python

git clone https://github.com/jipech/Pikanoid
cd Pikanoid
python3 arkanoid.py

The controll of the game is by the joystick on the Sense Hat board. If you finish game (good or bad), then you can choose:

• another game - joystick left
• end - joystick right If you like autostart game after booting your Raspberry Pi, then you add line to your crontab:

crontab -e
@reboot python3 /home/pi/Pikanoid/arkanoid.py

and exit crontab editor (e.g. F2 for nano). You may have to change /home/pi/arkanoid.py to your path to the program.

If you wanna change any beahviour of the game, you can do it in the start_set() procedure. This procedure is calling every time before start the game. You can change this variable:

• surface - main desktop of the game, you can add or remove the line of the brick or prepare your own design of the wall
• win, lost - this desktop is shown, when you win or lost a game
• bx, by - starting position of the ball (x=0 - up, x=7 - down, y=0 - left, y=7 - right)
• px, py - starting position of the paddle
• dir, up - starting direction of the ball (default is up and right) (dir=0 - left, dir= - right, up=1 - up, up=0 - down)
• bricks - number of the bricks
• iter - if ball in iter cycles dont touch a brick, the trace of the ball is changed. This is necessary to complet the game.

It is possible to add next features:

• compute the score
• add the next levels with different design of the wall
• add the control by the declination of the sense hat
• change the style or the color of the ball, paddle, wall