* LED light strip. The more the better, maximum of 1000. Tested with 1x & 2x 144/meter, 12x 60/meter and 5m x 114/meter strips. This has been tested with APA102C and NeoPixel type strips. Anything compatible with the FastLED library should work.
The game is played on a 1000 unit line, the position of enemies, the player, lava etc range from 0 to 1000 and the LEDs that represent them are derived using the `getLED()` function. You don't need to worry about this but it's good to know for things like the width of the attack and player max move speed. Regardless of the number of LEDs, everything takes place in this 1000 unit wide line.
**LED SETUP** Defines the quantity of LEDs as well as the data and clock pins used. I've tested several APA102-C strips and the color order sometimes changes from BGR to GBR, if the player is not blue, the exit green and the enemies red, this is the bit you want to change. Brightness should range from 50 to 255, use a lower number if playing at night or wanting to use a smaller power supply. `DIRECTION` can be set to 0 or 1 to flip the game orientation. In `setup()` there is a `FastLED.addLeds()` line, in there you could change it to another brand of LED strip like the cheaper WS2812.
The game also has 3 regular LEDs for life indicators (the player gets 3 lives which reset each time they level up). The pins for these LEDs are stored in `lifeLEDs[]` and are updated in the `updateLives()` function.
**JOYSTICK SETUP** All parameters are commented in the code, you can set it to work in both forward/backward as well as side-to-side mode by changing `JOYSTICK_ORIENTATION`. Adjust the `ATTACK_THRESHOLD` if the "Twanging" is overly sensitive and the `JOYSTICK_DEADZONE` if the player slowly drifts when there is no input (because it's hard to get the MPU6050 dead level).
**POOLS** These are the object pools for enemies, particles, lava, conveyors etc. You can modify the quantity of any of them if your levels use more or if you want to save some memory, just remember to update the respective counts to avoid errors.
**USE_GRAVITY** 0/1 to set if particles created by the player getting killed should fall towards the start point, the `BEND_POINT` variable can be set to mark the point at which the strip of LEDs goes from being horizontal to vertical. The game is 1000 units wide (regardless of number of LED's) so 500 would be the mid point. If this is confusing just set `USE_GRAVITY` to 0.
They all call different functions and variables to setup the level. Each one is described below:
**playerPosition;** Where the player starts on the 0 to 1000 line. If not set it defaults to 0. I set it to 200 in the first level so the player can see movement even if the first action they take is to push the joystick left
