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Summary

Super Mona is an open-source side-scrolling platformer for the GitHub Universe 2026 badge, featuring 32 stages across eight worlds, installable via a single GitHub Copilot prompt or a Python script using mpremote.

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martinwoodward/super-mona

Source: https://github.com/martinwoodward/super-mona

Super Mona

An original side-scrolling platformer for the GitHub Universe 2026 badge. Run, jump and stomp through 32 stages across eight worlds as Mona (or Ducky the rubber duck).

Super Mona title screen Stage 1-2 intro Choosing Ducky on the HERO page

Install with one Copilot prompt

Connect your badge to your computer with a USB-C data cable. Then give this prompt to GitHub Copilot (CLI, the Copilot app or agent mode in VS Code):

Install Super Mona from https://github.com/martinwoodward/super-mona onto my GitHub Universe 2026 badge, which is connected over USB. Follow the instructions in that repository's AGENTS.md.

Copilot clones this repository and runs the installer. The installer puts the badge into USB mass-storage mode, copies the game across, ejects the drive and checks that the files are on the badge.

Install it yourself

You need Python 3.8+ and mpremote (pip install mpremote).

git clone https://github.com/martinwoodward/super-mona
cd super-mona
python3 install.py

Close Thonny, Web Serial pages and any other mpremote sessions first, because only one program can use the badge’s serial port at a time.

If the installer can’t switch modes automatically (for example, on older firmware), double-tap the badge’s reset button. When the BADGER drive appears, run:

python3 install.py --volume /Volumes/BADGER   # macOS
python3 install.py --volume /media/$USER/BADGER   # Linux
python3 install.py --volume E:\   # Windows (use the BADGER drive letter)

No terminal? Double-tap reset, then drag the super_mona folder into the apps folder on the BADGER drive. Eject the drive and the badge restarts. Super Mona appears in the badge menu.

Stages

Eight worlds of four stages each. Every world follows the shape of a classic NES world (overworld, underground, sky, castle), but the layouts are original. Later worlds have wider pits and more enemies.

World-1-2-3-4
1HELLO WORLDSERVER ROOMSKY BRIDGEFIREWALL
2PULL REQUESTOVERFLOWCLOUD DEPLOYCONFLICT
3CLONEFORKPUSHPULL
4ACTIONTRIGGERPRE-PRODPROD
5BUG BASHSTACK TRACEBREAKPOINTSEGFAULT
6CONTAINERKERNEL PANICEDGE CACHEDEADLOCK
7CLONESTASHPRMERGE
8PLANBUILDTESTSHIP-IT

Worlds 1 and 2 on the badge Worlds 3 to 8 on the badge

How to play

Reach the flag at the end of each stage before the timer runs out. Collect stars (100 earns an extra life), bump ? blocks for power-ups, and stomp bugs and shellbots. Kick a shell, or hold B to carry it and release B to throw it.

PadAction
D-padMove (Down crouches when big)
Select (A)Jump; hold for a higher jump
Back (B)Run; hold to carry a shell, release to throw it
MenuPause. Left/Right switch between PAUSED, MAP, ITEMS and HERO
HomeQuit to the badge menu

Leave the title screen alone for 10 seconds and a demo bot plays two stages while PRESS SELECT flashes. You can watch it collect stars. Press any button to return to the title, or Select to start a game. The demo never changes your score or saved high score.

Demo mode playing 2-1 PULL REQUEST on the badge

See super_mona/README.md for the pause pages, including stored items and swapping between Mona and Ducky.

Requirements

  • GitHub Universe 2026 badge running the October 2026 (or later) firmware. The game uses the runtime’s badge, screen and image globals and badgeware.State.
  • No network or extra hardware is needed. The game runs in LORES (160x120).

Repository layout

PathPurpose
super_mona/The badge app. This folder is copied to /system/apps/super_mona
install.pyCross-platform installer (macOS, Linux and Windows)
tests/Host-side unit tests for the game logic and app start-up
tools/build_super_mona_assets.pyRegenerates the pixel art in super_mona/assets/
AGENTS.mdDeployment and development instructions for coding agents
docs/Screenshots captured from badge hardware

Development

python3 -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests       # run the tests
python3 tools/build_super_mona_assets.py    # regenerate the art
python3 install.py                          # deploy to a connected badge

Credits and license

Released under the MIT License. The Mona sprites are derived from the Flappy Mona artwork in badger/home (MIT License, © Pimoroni & GitHub). All other code and art in this repository is original.

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