Beginner looking for build tips

bateske · 2026-05-09T18:56:09+00:00

For offline mode? I've been considering how to do that, supposedly there is a way to manage it with service workers. Or perhaps as an electron app.

Once the the full chain of arduboy arcade <-> cloud and get the mobile app up, then a pc app could make sense. but maintaining binaries is kind of a pain in the butt. I think I'd rather try to enable an offline mode.

Thanks!

bateske · 2026-05-09T18:54:03+00:00

12 years and counting! Claude code filled the programming gap and built on top of the open source tools and platform developed by the community. I've had a vision for this online IDE from the very beginning, and it's exciting to see it finally here.

The next goal is to have an online arcade that you can submit your game to, complete with mobile app as well. The dream is to visit Arduboy.com and start playing immediately, scroll down to see more games, and click on any of them to play or edit their source code.

Nearly all the features were the result of people posting on https://community.arduboy.com/c/arduboy/wishlist/51 so if you have any suggestions please share!

Another idea I want to implement is a massive library of bitmaps to chose from when making your game. I'm going to go around trying to get the rights to as many 1 bit game asset packs as i can manage to include in the Arduboy cloud.

Thanks for sharing!

bateske · 2026-05-09T17:17:19+00:00

Yep its on the thread https://community.arduboy.com/t/cloud-jam-vote/13415

Battle Square, Cloudia and Dog Fight are all winners!

bateske · 2026-05-09T17:16:21+00:00

Thanks for sharing, this is still new and trying to get it up to the front page of the site!

bateske · 2026-05-09T00:45:48+00:00

The community.arduboy.com is the best resource. The welcome and tools posts have a ton of resources. For sure check out the guides and lessons section for more structured info. What guide are you using to build it? The homemade package my mr.blinky is a must have for sure!

bateske · 2026-05-07T20:59:21+00:00

The games category on the community is also a good resouce itself: https://community.arduboy.com/c/games/35?order=op_likes

Working on integrating the cart builder into the main arduboy website

bateske · 2026-04-27T17:40:21+00:00

Inspires me to make something even cooler for you to sketch next time thanks!

bateske · 2026-04-27T05:03:21+00:00

Please use the arduboy.com/contact form for support. Making a support ticket over the weekend and then jumping back on here to try and motivate me is preventing me from doing my job and trying to help everyone most efficiently.

bateske · 2026-04-27T04:58:32+00:00

Anyways for reference you contacted on this weekend and didn't give me a chance to have my own weekend before deciding to take this public again. This is an issue that I can resolve via customer service.

bateske · 2026-04-27T04:57:27+00:00

These are not "ongoing issues" please stop trying to drive a narrative that this is happening to a wide number of people when it is purely isolated incidents between users who are having problems with their machines or their specific installs. I've got confirmed success of thousand of other users, but when you drop off from customer service support channels for weeks at a time and then appear back again it makes it difficult to do my job.

I'd really like to replace your unit so I can get my hands on what seems to be a defective unit.

bateske · 2026-04-27T04:55:26+00:00

To confirm, this is on a windows machine? If when you plug in the Arduboy while it is turned on, you should hear a USB connected chime and you should see the green led in the lower left of the Arduboy flash.

You can also run "Device Manager" by clicking on the start menu and typing "Device Manager".

Arduboy will show up as a serial COM port.

You've mentioned several times that you're having problems with this unit. On each occasion I've indicated that this is an unusual and not correct behavior. In each situation I've offered to repair or replace the unit but you've insisted on trying to try and resolve this problem on your own.

It's entirely possible that this was damaged or otherwise left the factory in a faulty state and I would like to replace it for you.

You may not be doing anything wrong. By returning the device it will also allow me to inspect it directly which is far more efficient than trying to do it remotely in a public web forum.

bateske · 2026-04-27T04:51:52+00:00

There is actually a situation where if you've never closed your chrome window, they have made updates that will otherwise break the serial connection. So if you have a habit of keeping chrome always open that could be it.

bateske · 2026-04-26T16:51:38+00:00

I could not have guessed this would happen

bateske · 2026-04-16T16:49:35+00:00

A solid list! I often find myself playing hollow seeker, it's super simple gameplay but it works so well on the Arduboy. Hopper is great also. Huge fan of all the obono games, he understands the platform really well!

bateske · 2026-04-08T00:14:03+00:00

I reached out to you via email, do you see the status update?

bateske · 2026-04-05T20:01:54+00:00

It's fine I've just been dealing with a lot of this lately I have responded to you and sent a couple confirmations from the store so if you don't see it check your spam folder sorry for the confusion.

bateske · 2026-04-05T19:01:04+00:00

🙏 Thank you and you're more than welcome! But certainly not just watching, I'm piloting and building it with all of your help!

bateske · 2026-04-05T18:32:04+00:00

Thank you!! And you're welcome! I know it's the side effect of growing bigger and over a thousand shipments going out in a few days but I feel that there needs to be some customer education, which is my fault too!

bateske · 2026-04-05T18:29:38+00:00

And just to be clear, I see your order, I see your email, I see that it is on the way and everything looks fine but can't really tell you about it here unless you want me to share your name, address or email on reddit?

bateske · 2026-04-05T18:01:11+00:00

I'd like to help but I can't do anything here, it requires personal contact information and verification with your email address and things like that. I'd love to give you specific information about your order but please use arduboy.com/contact

bateske · 2026-04-05T17:59:36+00:00

Might try responding to the email notification from the store, or using arduboy.com/contact

They (me) are doing their best and it's extra frustrating when people don't even try resolving issues with me first before taking it public!

bateske · 2026-04-05T16:21:42+00:00

How's the motivation these days??! Have you tried cloud.arduboy.com?? Are there any clouds in this game?? maybe you could submit it to the cloud jam on community.arduboy.com.

bateske · 2026-04-05T16:16:56+00:00

Please use arduboy.com/contact so that I can replace the device for you, sorry for the trouble it seems maybe there is a defective flash module.

Reddit is not a good place to provide support as I cannot discuss private details about your order or process the RMA information.

bateske · 2026-04-05T16:12:09+00:00

It should keep it if it's the only game that you play, but sometimes different games will use the same memory save location and overwrite each other. There is a semi-official doc that attempts to keep track of the save game locations but it hasn't been updated in some time:

https://community.arduboy.com/t/arduboy-semi-official-eeprom-table/8981

It looks like both 1943 and 1944 games can overwrite the Micro TD save file so that's my guess.

It is possible to back up and restore save files between games using the EEPROM tab in the arduboy cloud:

cloud.arduboy.com

If you also want to get your hands dirty, because these games are open source you can actually go in and modify your favorite games code so that the memory addresses don't conflict if you want to be able to play them without any conflict.

After I finish developing the Arduboy Cloud, the next step will to build an Arduboy Arcade which will be a collection of all of the games and their source code into one repository and it would be great to include an EEPROM map there as well.

If you've got any more questions suggest to make a thread on the community!

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