November 2017 GameDev Challenge: Pong!

I like it. Time to put my thinking cap on.

I love short and sweet challenges like this with classic games. Does it need to be on any specific game engine?

Any (or no) game engine is fine.

I like it too, fits perfect for the next challenge which will come after that

Can I use my game editor to create it?

Yes.

Awesome!

I'm already a week late to this, but hey, sounds fun.

You still have three weeks to go, should be enough to create a pong game

I may do something for this...trying to make something unique with pong will make me think some though. Maybe some combination from some other random game would do it(like I saw Tetris combined with a snake game or something).

Hi everybody!

I decided to use this challenge as an excuse for learning to use Game Maker (or I wanted to learn Game Maker and decided to do it while participating in this challenge; pick one :P). My project is called "Power Word: Pong". It's available for Windows here: https://racso.itch.io/power-word-pong

I still want to improve the AI, as it's still quite dumb, and I want to give some variety to the ball (angle and speed changes), but I'm almost done with the game. Still, as always, feedback is appreciated!

I hope you like the twist of the game. You may find the game source in this repository. I'll create a post-mortem after I finish working in the project.

Regards!

O.

That looks very good, can't currently try it though (office)

Looks really great, i will try to test it when i get home.

For future reference, am I able to program something for these challenges in html and java-script?

[ edit ] after reading up more on these challenges I think I can answer my own question. Perhaps if any game-engine is allowed for a particular challenge then someone could? I'm not sure, slippery slop.

3 hours ago, Awoken said:

For future reference, am I able to program something for these challenges in html and java-script?

[ edit ] after reading up more on these challenges I think I can answer my own question. Perhaps if any game-engine is allowed for a particular challenge then someone could? I'm not sure, slippery slop.

You can always do the challenges months/years later, but you wont get any rewards (trophies etc.). Regarding the second question: It depends how to challenge is limited. If a challenge is limited to C++ only - which the one from oct. and nov. isnt´t you can write it in every engine/framework/language you want. But to be clearly sure, you have to read the challenge requirements - for example, some require special art.

Windows Platform : MK_Pong.zip

Edit: One of the missed requirements was adding sound. OpenAL is my go to library for this but unfortunately has not been addressed.

Couldn't resist, yet another pong clone from me. My twist is that I set the 2D game inside a classic Pong arcade cabinet in VR. Probably disqualifies me, but whatever. Took about 10 hours to build, write up, and upload all the parts.

Writeup.

Zip file for Windows executable and assets. (39 MB)

Video link, seems to be automatically embedded:

Here is my submission for the challenge.

Sadly I don't have the time to work on it again before the end of the month, and the AI is stupid to say the least.
The twist is pretty straightforward, the arena is round instead of rectangular.

When a player hits the ball it changes its color. When the ball is red if it exit the arena the point will go to the red paddle. Viceversa when it's blue the point will go to the blue paddle.
The two paddles can also overlap and both hit the ball. When this happens and the ball exit the arena a point will be subtracted to both player.

Here's the blog post:

I hope you like it

Code reviews are really appreciated!

Round Pong.zip

Solution.zip

Hi again! I think I've finished the game. In the end, I avoided randomizing the ball angles to make the game more predictable (and tactical), but I did implement a new AI (which makes playing alone super-cool now!). If you tried the game but got bored because of the easy AI, feel free to try again! You can get the game in this page, and check out the source code here.

I'll let you know when I finish the post-mortem. Regards!

Please find the game's post-mortem here: https://racso.itch.io/power-word-pong/devlog/16651/post-mortem