Project Description

Floppy Bird is a game inspired by the popular game, Flappy Bird, created to showcase a custom CPU design created by myself and a group of my peers for the Digital Design Lab course (ECE3710) at the University of Utah.  The custom CPU architecture uses 16-bit words and runs a customized version of the CR-16 instruction set architecture (ISA).  The CPU was written in Verilog and was designed to be synthesized onto the Altera DE1-SOC development board running a Cyclone-V FPGA.

In Floppy Bird, the player is a bird-fish hybrid (firb) who must navigate between two pipes without hitting either pipe.  Unlike Flappy Bird, where the player must simply tap their device's touchscreen in order to make the bird move, in Floppy Bird, the player must physically jump in order to move the firb between the game's pipes.  This is accomplished by interfacing a customized Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) mat onto the DE1-SOC development board using a custom PCB.

Code Repository

As this project was a final project for a university class, I will not be sharing my source code publicly to prevent academic misconduct.  The source code, however, is available for viewing upon the request of any prospective employer.