About: I have a degree in Electronics Engineering and various certifications in all kinds of internet programming languages. Professionally, I have over 20 years of experience in various roles including an electronic…

In my youth, we had arcades and bowling alleys to play games slightly better than the Atari home gaming system. The VIC-20 home computer system was the predecessor to the Commodore-64. Growing-up during a time before wireless phones and graphics better than the Atari, I really enjoyed the text-based adventure games. To this day, I can recall images in my mind of what I imagined while reading the descriptions of the environments I got to explore. Using only Arduino Uno, I want something like a text-based adventure or Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs), or Zork, using basic rules of Dungeons & Dragons with a feel similar to Gauntlet or Diablo.

Currently, the project makes a visually interesting simulation of a character wandering through a maze looking for a key and trying to find the door to exit only to be stuck repeating this for all eternaty

Recommended hardware: Atmel 328p microcontrollers, an LCD Shield with buttons, and an MAX7219 8X8 Red Dot LED Matrix.