Pinball: An FPGA Game Over VGA

2019-06-15

EE314 Digital Circuits Laboratory

In my 3rd year on Electrical and Electronics Engineering in METU, me and my project partner, designed a pinball game that works on a De1-SoC FPGA board. The game is written in Verilog HDL. It consists of all basic elements of a pinball game: targets, boundaries, flippers, plunger, timer and a scoreboard. The game is playable via buttons on the FPGA board.

Photo: Final working game product
Photo: Final working game product

Video: Me and my project partner, explaining the inner schemes of our Pinball game design for FPGA.

EE314 Digital Electronics Laboratory Project: Pinball

This project consists of two main parts: VGA communication for display purposes, and the overall mechanics and design of the game.

Source codes of the project consists of many modules:

  1. VGA
  2. boundary
  3. flipper
  4. circle
  5. hexagon
  6. ball
  7. collision
  8. bcd (binary coded decimal)
  9. number_display
  10. timer
Photo: The FPGA board used in this project for game engine, controls and VGA video output
Photo: The FPGA board used in this project for game engine, controls and VGA video output
Figure: Early design plan of the gameplay screen
Figure: Early design plan of the gameplay screen