Pong

Developing Retro Type Pong Game Using LÖVE framework.
LÖVE is a framework for making 2D games in the Lua programming language.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Technologies
• Setup
• Launch
• Illustrations
• Examples
• Status
• Sources
• Other

Introduction

Aim of this project is to make a basic retro game Pong from scratch using Love2d framework and Lua language.
Some Questions that I have tried my best to answer :-

1. How this game is different from others?
   No, it is not different from other games. I see this game as a first step towards my interest in game development.

2. How this game is different from the Tutorial Pong Game?
   I have tried including my own ideas in this project. Some of those ideas are :-

   • Whole idea regarding Menu and interface using Gamestates.
   • Volume adjustments for SFX as well as Music.
   • Difficulty levels which alters ball speed, paddle speed as well as paddle length
   • In Vs Computer Mode also, speed of paddle changes according to difficulty level selected.
   • In Hard Difficulty, Computer Controlled paddle will rarely miss the ball. While in Easy Difficulty Computer Controlled paddle will miss the ball more often.
   • You can change targets varying from 1 to 19.

3. What I have learned from this project?
   I learned how game generally works. All those constantly running cycles of updates and renders is all that occurs behind the scenes. I also learned how frameworks are important for abstractions.

4. How your game works??
   I have used simple approach of change in game states.These are the states that are present in my game and their main function :-

   Game State	Main Function
   START	To show Game Intro Screen.
   MAIN_MENU	Show Main Menu.
   MODE_MENU	If Play is selected in Menu show different modes availaible that are :- Vs Compter & Vs Player.
   SETTINGS_MENU	If Settings is selected in Menu show volume adjustments that can be made.
   CREDITS	If Credits is selected in Menu show credits.
   QUIT_CONF_0	Player has chosen exit from Main Menu which quits the game.
   QUIT_CONF_1	Player has chosen exit from Paused Game which brings player back to Main Menu.
   VS_COMP_MENU and VS_PLAYER_MENU	These are two different modes in which player can chose difficulty levels and target.
   COMPUTER_MODE	Player will play against computer controlled paddle.
   PLAY	Player will play against other player.
   PAUSE	It brings Pause Menu.
   PAUSE_TO_PLAY	If Resume is selected from Pause Menu it starts a countdown and player can go back playing.
   P1_WINNER or P2_WINNER	If Target reaches selected target than winner s announced and respective message is shown.

5. Future plans regarding this project?? I have started work on New Mode which is superior and more fun than this one.

Features:

1. Different Game Modes :- This game provides 2 different game modes that are Vs Computer and Vs Player.
2. Different Difficulties :- Each mode has 3 different difficulty levels that has different ball speed and different paddle size to make games more dynamic.
3. Adjust Volume Of Music And SFX :- Don't like music?? You can turn it down or even turn it off from settings.
4. AI implementation according to difficulty :- All 3 different difficulty levels have different AI Paddle implemented.
5. New Mode Coming Soon :- New Mode is under development which is superior and more fun than this one. Stay Tuned!!

Technologies

Software Used :

• VS Code : 1.58.2

Languages Used :

• Lua

Frameworks Used :

• Love2d : 11.1

Setup

First you must have these softwares and languages installed on your system -

• Lua
• Love2d : 11.1

Launch

Just run this command where Folder Game is located.

$ love Game

A window will pop up and you are good to go.

Illustrations

Game State FlowChart

Examples

Project status

Completed

Sources

• Love2d Documentation
• dafont(Fonts)
• jsfxr(Sound Effects)

Audio File music.mp3 taken from Fesliyan Studios Website

Other

This Project was created under course "CS50's Introduction to Computer Science" presented by HarvardX - CS50 via platform edX.