TOWER-DEFENSE GAME / ESP32 APPLICATION
Pixel Tower Defense
A 20-level tower-defense game for M5Stack Tab5, with every pixel and sound generated in code.
About this project
About this project
Twenty levels of build-a-maze tower defence on the M5Stack Tab5's 1280×720 touch panel, with five tower types, nine enemy kinds including air units and healers, and nine boss abilities — up to two bosses per level. The rule that shapes everything is that no asset files exist at all: the 5×7 Latin font is 95 hand-written bitmaps, the 16×16 Chinese glyphs are generated from the game's own string table, sound effects are synthesised square waves and LFSR noise at build time, and every sprite is a stack of rectangles. Maps come from a Python layout tool, and difficulty moves through buildable space rather than bigger numbers. A PC simulator compiles the real sources and plays all twenty levels under 370 assertions. Flash with PlatformIO, or erase-flash first and then write the merged image at offset 0x0.
From the README
From the README
- Display
- 1280×720 MIPI-DSI, 40 px cells, 32×14 grid
- Constraint
- the repository contains zero asset files
- Fonts
- the 5×7 font is 95 hand-written bitmaps
- Flashing
- Always esptool erase-flash first
Hardware
Native board: M5Stack Tab5
Boards: M5Stack Tab5 (ESP32-P4)
M5Stack Tab5 with a 1280 × 720 touchscreen. A source-based desktop simulator exists in the repository.
Media credit & rights
Upstream project media · rights remain with its owner · Credit: andjiang0083
Captured from the upstream desktop renderer at the pinned commit. Scene controls replay recorded frames; they do not run firmware. License notices are included in the preview package.
View original source ↗ Copyright & removal · Reviewed
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