Watch Face: 8-Bit Gamer

8-Bit Gamer

Simple watch face showing Time, Date, Move Bar, and Battery % when "Awake".
This app reverses the logic of the move bar. All of the hearts are full (Red) when your move bar is empty. While you are inactive, the hearts will drain as your move bar fills in. The first 4 bars will take away half a heart, the last bar will take away your final heart.

Download Link: View App In App Store

Donation Link: Donations Are Accepted!

Version 1.6:

Thank you for all the great comments and suggestions! Make sure you to use the Forum if you'd like a response. I cannot respond directly from the rating section!

Added Support for European Date Format (Day/Month) - I couldn't find a setting specifically for this, so I'm using Distance Unit setting to determine your preference.

Updated code for time. I was manually appending preceding zero when minutes were below 10. Someone suggested a cleaner way to do it.

Version 1.5:
Disabled dithering on the heart images.

Version 1.4:
Added support for all Square Watches: Epix & ForeRunner920XT
I don't own either of these watches and only tested in the emulator. If you own this and have issues, please let me know in the forums!

Version 1.3:

Added Experience Bar for steps and step goal. The bar will fill in as you accumulate steps and change colors as you near 100%.
Red - 0 - 33% of goal
Orange - 33 - 66% of goal
Yellow - 66 - 99% of goal
Green - 100% of goal

Former Member over 9 years ago

The watch face is cool but you can make it super cool if you change the display of the steps to pacman eating dots. The exact number of steps you can read on the separate default screen anyhow so it is not needed in the retro watch face. Pacman could move from left to right till the step goal. When it is exceeded pacman can change to ghost :-)

travis.vitek over 9 years ago

I originally had that in my code and it looked fine in the simulator, but once I put it on my VivoActive it removed the leading 0 so I manually set the leading zero.

Your code probably used the format string %0.2d, which is different from %02d. The latter of the two has always worked and is the correct way to format an integer with leading zeros.

Daveconnect45 over 9 years ago

Any progress on the round face?

I'd love to see this on Fenix 3.

Former Member over 9 years ago

killing my battery

I LOVE this watch face but out of nowhere, it became a battery drain. I went to bed with my watch at 83% and woke up with it dead the next morning. Usually it would last for 4-6 days but not anymore. I charged up my watch and within an hour it had gone through almost 25%. This was back on the 3rd. I thought maybe something was wrong with my watch but wanted to test things out. I switched back to the standard watch face and the battery lasts for more than a week with regular activities. Was there an update that happened recently that could have caused this? I really want to be able to use this watch again. It reminds me so much of my love of Zelda and makes me happy...

dbannonaxus over 9 years ago

I LOVE this watch face but out of nowhere, it became a battery drain. I went to bed with my watch at 83% and woke up with it dead the next morning. Usually it would last for 4-6 days but not anymore. I charged up my watch and within an hour it had gone through almost 25%. This was back on the 3rd. I thought maybe something was wrong with my watch but wanted to test things out. I switched back to the standard watch face and the battery lasts for more than a week with regular activities. Was there an update that happened recently that could have caused this? I really want to be able to use this watch again. It reminds me so much of my love of Zelda and makes me happy...

Hello MadameAlaina - Thank you for using my watch face! The last update was on 8/14 and was very minimal. My coworkers and I have been running this watch face for quite a while now and haven't seen any issues. Have you checked to make sure you're running the latest version of the watch firmware (3.20.0.0)? I know Garmin has been making improvement to battery life and Bluetooth connectivity. I've seen others mention battery issues while sleeping before, I think it was related to their phone trying to re-connect to bluetooth over and over all night. Can you verify that you're running the most recent version of the watch firmware? You can update it with the Garmin Express app on your computer.

Thanks,
-Dan