Today is Game Boy's 30th anniversary in Europe. To celebrate, I ported the first ever game I made, QPong to PICO-8 on GameShell which looks very similar to a Game Boy. This is the closest to making a GB game without doing it the hard way using C or Assembly!
QPong is a quantum version of the classic Pong. In this game, you need to construct a quantum circuit to control the paddle position. Spooky quantum phenomena like superposition and wave function collapse show up in the game if you place H gates on the circuit.
Controls
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W, A, S, D: move cursor
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Z: Place/remove Hadamard gate
- X: Place/remove X gate
Links
Please read my blog post for details about the game and everything about quantum computers!
- itch.io: https://kirais.itch.io/qpong
- Blog post: https://link.medium.com/QQGf9BRv99
- Tweet thread: https://twitter.com/HuangJunye/status/1310624528544837632
- Source code: https://github.com/HuangJunye/QPong-PICO-8
If you are interested in make quantum games like QPong, please join us in the upcoming IndiQ Quantum Game Jam (Oct 3–6 2020) , held in conjunction with one of the largest online game jam LDJAM47.
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