I haven't really been working on this project since a couple of months. PRs are welcomed!

This is a Python project for playing computer games on the Launchpad MK 2/Playing directly

First of all you have to download Python 3.7
You can download it here: https://www.python.org/

After that you need to install the following packages via pip e.g.

python3 -m pip install <packagename>

• launchpad_py (I'll explain in a second more details)
• pynput
• playsound (Currently not implemented)

You could just run

python3 -m pip install launchpad_py pynput playsound

Launchpad_py is the library used for controlling the launchpad.
Repo: https://github.com/FMMT666/launchpad.py

You may have to directly download it from the repo.

So you got your Launchpad MK 2.
Now, plug it in.

And then go into your terminal and run

python3 Main.py

If everything worked fine, you should see on the top circles a pink, some orange and a blue circle.

So you can see these orange, pink and blue circles.
If you press on one of them, the profile page changes.

A profile can be the following:

• A game on the launchpad
• A Controller profile page for a specific game

Blue means Custom page. Developers can use the blue profile page in order to create games.
Oranges is just a normal gameController page.
Pink is the currently selected page.

The circles at the right are setting buttons.
You should see a red circle at the bottom right.
If you press this circle, the program will close and exit save. I recommend using this button instead of terminating the python script.

So there are some games you can play on the launchpad itself.
Go to the Games directory, choose a game and run it with

python3 <GameName>.py

After that you have to go to the custom profile page in order to play your game.
You may have to press on the field itself to activate the game.

There's also the option to use the Launchpad to play specific games on the computer.
The launchpad simulates Keyboard and Mouse Clicks/presses.

The orange circles are these controller pages.
Just click on one.

List of currently implemented games (from left to right):

• Rocket League
• Among Us
• osu!
• Tetris (designed for https://tetr.io/)

I haven't implemented a Profile Manager yet so you have to edit the code.

1. Open the Controller.py file in a texteditor
2. Go to the __register_setup method (just search for "def __register_setup")
3. Use this preset:

new_game_name_without_spaces = self.registerProfile("gamename_in_lower")
self.registerButton(new_game_name_without_spaces, "button_name", command, keymode, color, colorFeedback)

"button_name" is the name for the button. You can give it any name you want, it's mostly used for output in the console
command is the command that the program should do.

• If you want to choose a mouse button, use
  • MButton.left for left mouse button
  • MButton.right for right mouse button
  • MButton.middle for middle mouse button
• If you want to choose some special keyboard keys like control (ctrl) or space then use
  • KBKey.ctrl_l for left ctrl
  • KBKey.ctl_r for right ctrl
  • KBKey.space for space
  • KBKey.up for up arrow
  • ...
• If you want to use Mouse Motion, use
  • "up" for arrow
  • "down" for arrow
  • "left" for arrow
  • "right" for arrow
• If you want to use a number, char or everything else, just write the keyname out.

keymode is the mode for the key used. You have to specifiy that.

• 0 means its a mouse button
• 1 means its a key
• 2 means its a mouse motion

color and color feedback are used for coloring the button.
Launchpad has a special color pallette so you can't use normal RGB Values.

List of Velocity Color values

If you're a developer, you can create your own games.
Simply go to the Games folder, create a folder for your game, add a Python file and insert the following:

from Controller import Controller

c = Controller()

# You don't have to implement these events
@c.event
def on_button_press():
  # used for button press
  pass

@c.event
def on_button_release():
  # used for button release
  pass

@c.event
def on_settings_button_press():
  # used for these circles at the right side
  pass
  
@c.event
def on_exit():
  # If the launchpad is closed
  pass
  
@c.event
def on_profile_enter():
  # if the user enters your profile aka the custom profile
  pass
  
@c.event
def on_profile_exit():
  # if the user leaves your profile aka the custom profile
  pass
 
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
  c.run()

Btw, you have to handle things like pausing the game if the user leaves your profile page (aka the custom page) yourself.

To light buttons you can use

c = Controller()

c.fill(colorcode) # fills the whole launchpad plate (not settings and profile buttons)
c.ledOn(x, y, colorcode, pulse=False) # starting at the top left rect, not circle
c.ledOff(x, y)

To use more commands, you can use the commands from the launchpad_py library. Simply just write

c = Controller()
c.lp.some_function()

These functions will probably start at the top left circle not rect.

There aren't any docs yet.

If you need some help, please open an issue instead of texting me per twitter etc.

Just open an Issue

Yeah, I'll add that later on