Pong Devlog

My Pong Game (Damien B)

Features:

2 Player

• W/S
• ^/v arrows

AI

• Follows the Ball,  quite rudimentarily.
• Has a slight dead-zone in its centre so as to not jitter too severely when the Ball is approaching.
• Will cease moving when the Ball is moving away from it.

Mechanics

• The Ball spawns moving in a random direction, with a slight dead-zone directly above and below the centre (to avoid spawning at extremely acute angles, causing the ball to take excessively long to reach a player).
  
• The angle of deflection off of the paddles is determined by the distance from its centre (i.e. the closer to the edge it hits, the more vertically it is deflected).
• The Ball gets faster the more it hits each paddle.

Design:

Navigation

• A Main Menu and a Game Over Menu.
  
• The 'Game Over Menu' - which appears after a Player reaches 10 points (stopping all play) - allows the return to the Main Menu, or the option to play again (offering either 1- or 2- Player).

Sound Design

• I made all of the sound effects in FL Studio.
  • SFX Include:
    • Ball Collisions with Paddles.
    • Ball Collisions with Top and Bottom Walls
    • Whenever a point is scored.
    • When a Player wins.
    • Background Track.
• A friend and I made the Background Track a couple years ago for '8-bit'-ish games just like this, so it was a good opportunity to use it.

Art

• I made all of the sprites in Paint.Net.
• Font of text and numbers: 'Metal Lord' - retrieved from 'In-Unity' tutorials 3-5, KIT109, UTAS, 2023.
• The Ball's highlight/shadow changes direction roughly in relation to the direction the Ball is moving (to the extents of top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right).