It's the eternal battle between day and night, good and bad. Written in JavaScript with some HTML & CSS in one index.html. Feel free to reuse the code and create your own version.

Run:

npx serve

Open up the link and you're ready to start.

I saw this first here, but it appears to be a much older idea. There's some more information on the history in the Hacknernews discussion.

The colors are based on the Mindful Palette by Alex Cristache.

I love getting feedback and PRs with improvements for this, but I also want to keep this simple and the code minimal. If you want to extend the game, feel free to create your own. If you found a way to improve the collision detection (or a better way to add some randomness), feel free to open a PR.

• Original post on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@vnglst/111828811496422610
• On Twitter: https://twitter.com/vnglst/status/1751278052154179770

If you've created an alternate version of Pong Wars and want to share, feel free to create a PR to add the link here:

• BBC Micro Bot
• Earlier version with padels
• Pico8
• C version
• Ying Yang
• C++
• Scratch
• Pygame version
• Python
• Seasons Pong
• Processing
• Flutter
• Rust/Wasm
• Kotlin/Wasm
• Atari 2600
• Eternal Bounce Battle (GDevelop)
• Swift (SpriteKit)
• React Native