🏓 Pong Game (Python + Pygame)

This is a Pong clone I wrote back in 2019 during the last months of high school as one of my first real coding projects.
It was my way to approach programming by mixing two passions: videogames and coding 🎮.

👉 Download Linux executable

---

🚀 Features

• Classic Pong gameplay with two paddles and a bouncing ball
• Single-player mode: play against a basic AI-controlled paddle
• Multiplayer mode: two players on the same keyboard
• Start screen: select game mode before playing
• Score system with configurable goal (default: 5 points)
• Victory screen ("Congratulazioni!") when a player wins
• Background music and sound effects using pygame.mixer

---

🎮 Controls

Single-player

• Arrow Up / Down → Move your paddle
• The second paddle is controlled automatically

Multiplayer

• W / S → Move left paddle
• Arrow Up / Down → Move right paddle

---

📂 Project structure

.
├── pong.py                     # Main game file
├── pong_musica.mp3             # Background music
├── pong_schermata_iniziale.mp3 # Intro screen music
└── README.md                   # Project description

---

🛠️ Requirements

• Python 3.x
• pygame library

Install pygame with:

pip install pygame

---

▶️ Run the game

From terminal:

python pong.py

Then select single-player or multiplayer mode on the start screen and play!

---

📖 Example gameplay

• A ball starts bouncing in the middle of the screen.
• Players move paddles to prevent the ball from going out of bounds.
• Each time a player misses, the opponent gains a point.
• The first player to reach the goal score (default: 5) wins the game.

---

✨ Future improvements

• Better ball behaviour
• Add sounds for paddle/ball collisions
• Improve the "congratulations" victory screen

---

👉 This project is special to me because it represents my first step into programming: building a classic game from scratch while learning Python, back in 2019.

---

📸 Screenshot