Ping

Projects

21 November 2017

Ping is an homage to the classic arcade game Pong, with some liberties taken on physics. It appears similar to the original, with two white rectangles for paddles and a white square for a ball.

The player controls the left paddle, and a rudimentary AI controls the right paddle. The paddle will accelerate and decelerate with a feeling of some weight, rather than just moving up and down linearly. The ball gains speed on each paddle impact, forcing one side to eventually make a mistake. Collisions are implemented by hand, and work most of the time.

Ping is written in Java and uses Swing for the UI.