[2] Pong WIP [1/4]

I opted to take a bit of a different approach this week.

Rather than add custom features and ones of the base lesson simultaneously, I'd try creating the game according to the lesson in its entirety first. Only then would I start adding the features I thought of previously while going through the lesson.

From Monday to Wednesday, my time was spent simply following the lesson to the letter, only adding some minor details. What I had made at the end of Wednesday is shown here:

The lesson did not cover music nor a background, and thus was not included.

That's not to say that I didn't add anything. For instance, the particles emitted are the color of the paddle the ball hits, which wasn't talked about in the lesson.

Now that I have a framework on which I can build upon, I currently only have around 2 ideas for additions, and one of those ideas might be a bit hard to implement:

• At double match point (6-6), instead of a single ball, three spawn, with the point going to whoever can score two out of the three balls

• The paddles themselves could act as bats, where the balls speed is affected by the strength of a swing; the ball would also make different hit sounds depending on the speed at which it's hit

The paddle would pivot around an anchor point, and that point is the thing that moves up and down. The ball would also affect the paddle's rotational velocity, but not its overall position.

Those properties are what would make it hard to implement in my eyes. Though next week I'll see what I can do in adding it, anyway.

For Thursday, which is the day I write these posts, I wanted to put in at least 1 significant thing before I got off, which left me with 1 realistic goal, the multiball mechanic:

And that's pretty much it for now.

This blog was a bit shorter, as there just weren't too many notable things going on this week.

To end this, here's a diagram showing a bit of what I mean by the paddle bats: