Tennis-Pong-Like Game

rainsong 2022-10-03 01:02

The link to the itch.io site doesn't seem to be attaching (and the embedded version isn't happy... looks like I missed the screensize restriction), so I'm putting it here: https://rainsong.itch.io/tennis-pong-like-game

pennycook 2022-10-03 02:35

This is a great idea; a simple but very effective take on the theme.

I'm having some technical issues, which may just be my computer... The game plays smoothly for the first few seconds, but once the ball gets close to my paddle for the first time everything slows to a crawl. When things become responsive again, the ball is moving too fast to play.

zl17 2022-10-03 16:20

Nice game with cheeky AI. I like the retro ish art style. I did encounter an issue where the ball would respawn with a really high speed, maybe resetting the velocity/speed once it is repositioned in the middle could fix this.

rainsong 2022-10-03 23:41

Thanks for trying it out :)

Hmmm. Not sure what's causing the crawl thing. It didn't happen on test plays on two computers...maybe has something to do with browsers?

The amount by which the speed changes probably need to be modified. It's a timeout function separate from the scoring, and might be too much change.

seansmeedcomposer 2022-10-04 16:22

nice. love me some pong.

puyo 2022-10-04 16:23

Well done, and good idea implementing the theme

mrjeremy 2022-10-04 16:23

Interesting take on the theme, was fun the first couple rounds but the speed increase seemed to carry over after each round, making it unplayable after a few games. Still a good game overall though!

quinn-patrick 2022-10-04 16:25

This is a perfectly fine Pong implementation, but there isn't a whole lot here beyond that. It's impressive that you made this without an engine.

wazce 2022-10-04 16:30

Good adaptation of the theme! It was a little hard to adjust to the ball spawning in the middle and the score text on my first play though was really tiny (fixed on a refresh). Good work :)

rainsong 2022-10-04 22:39

Thanks so much. :)