Day 18: Pong(nicolewoo.ca)
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Day 18: Pong
http://www.nicolewoo.ca/2015/05/day-18-pong/
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I'm currently pegging away doing stuff with trigonometry/geometry for work in canvas, and it takes time if you haven't done it before and are not a genius!
I think within the scope of a single day, if I had to rush this type of stuff rather than try to understand it as I go, it'd be less of a learning experience. 1 week I think is a perfect amount of time for this kind of thing versus one day.
Either way, it's super cool, and how good is maths!!!
I think within the scope of a single day, if I had to rush this type of stuff rather than try to understand it as I go, it'd be less of a learning experience. 1 week I think is a perfect amount of time for this kind of thing versus one day.
Either way, it's super cool, and how good is maths!!!
Love what you're doing here! A friend of mine have been working on a Pong clone in order to learn Rust and plan on documenting our experience. In particular, what are the valuable aspects or takeaways from these kinds of post-mortems? The reason I ask is as a result of using Pong as an example to learn Rust better, I'm finding a ton of language specific material I could document as opposed to game mechanics. Trying to find the right balance of material.
http://www.github.com/caiges/pwong
http://www.github.com/caiges/pwong
Back when we still used Shockwave and Flash on the web, I often used Pong as a quick test to see if designers could program Lingo and Actionscript to a useful level, and how elegant their code was.
I clicked back to day 1, pretty interesting to follow. Here's a direct link to the github account:
https://github.com/Nicole20/
C++/CS/JS (Unity Engine)
C++/CS/JS (Unity Engine)
Also C#.
Great project! I should do something like this too.
It would be nice if you place link to day 1 on each post, so that newcomers will have a bit more context when they get a link through twitter/HN/reddit
It would be nice if you place link to day 1 on each post, so that newcomers will have a bit more context when they get a link through twitter/HN/reddit
Agree, but awesome idea overall for a project! :)
I love watching these unfold! My only suggestion is that with every game you make, try to stray from the norm a bit, and a splash of creativity, or a twist on the game.
My favorite one of these was 12 games in 12 days at lessmilk.com
http://www.lessmilk.com/12games
He not only made a new game every week for 12 weeks, it seemed that week after week, the ideas became a little more interesting each time, to the point that I couldn't wait for his next game to come out.
For example, he also made a Snake game, but after you eat about 3 or 4 apples, the entire board started rotating. It was a genius twist I had never seen before. You just never expect a Snake game to take a turn like that, and it's a great experience.