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I asked Terry about Super Hexagon a while ago. His reply: Hey! This is something I'm thinking about! Super Hexagon's 10th anniversary is in 2022, but it's pos

• StavrosK 6y ago
  I emailed him asking about a way to get the current color on the screen, for a LED project I wanted to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYnmtfN_lrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYnmtfN_lrg He replied and was very helpful. Unfortunately he didn't know of a good way to get the color, but he did send me a bunch of other code for a related project he had. In the end, I just captured the color from a single pixel on the screen, which was fast and good enough for me, and the result is above.
  • levidavidmurray 6y ago
    How do you detect "Game Over" when simply capturing a single pixel?
    • StavrosK 6y ago
      IIRC the pixel is the first pixel of the time bar, and the entire screen flashes white when you lose, so I just detect that. The code is here: https://gitlab.com/stavros/gamelights/-/blob/master/misc/capture.py#L108 https://gitlab.com/stavros/gamelights/-/blob/master/misc/cap...