New 2D side-scrolling game: "Rats and Ravens"

Hi there, I’ve spent the last month developing a 2D side scrolling game (kinda like the early Mario Advance games) where you have to collect coins, jewels, and jump over buildings and use platforms to evade the roaming rats and the flying ravens. Up until a few days ago it was simply 8x8 square pixels jumping and running, but then I asked Claude to make the squares into “art”

So… the gameplay is all mine, but the art (buildings, platforms, ravens, rats, fog) is all Claude Code.

Enjoy. the .UF2 files are at Release Rats and Ravens V1.00A · Dzubin/rats-and-ravens · GitHub

and the source is at: GitHub - Dzubin/rats-and-ravens: Rats and Ravens - an original 2D platformer for the ClockworkPi PicoCalc (RP2040/RP2350), with a Windows/Linux SDL2 desktop port · GitHub

I tried to keep the source hardware independent and confirmed that it also compiles and runs under MS-Windows and Linux… but it’s really meant for the PicoCalc RP2040 and RP2350

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