James and Syna's Connect 4 (for the Nexys A7 FPGA)

Open and run this project in Vivado to flash it onto the FPGA. Graphics are outputted as a 640x480 VGA signal.

Demo video

demo.mp4

Supplemental files

gen_sprite.py is responsible for generating sprite modules (in /sprite_modules) based on input images (stored in /sprites). Requires the pillow library.

palette.txt specifies the colors used in the sprites, and is an input for gen_sprite.py

Makefile uses gen_sprite.py to ensure that all the sprite modules are up to date with any sprite image revisions. Run make sprites to run gen_sprite.py for all required sprites in the project, or make clean to remove all the sprite modules so they may be regenerated.

gen_array_flattener.py is a small utility that creates copy/pastable Verilog code to pack and flatten 2D arrays, which are not natively able to be passed to and from a module.

mockup.aseprite is an Aseprite file that contains all of the original artwork made for the game. The colors used are a subset of the Fantasy 24 color palette.