Pong v1.3.1

A Pong clone that can be run on an Arduboy.

Demo

Controls

• Up and Down buttons: Move the left paddle up or down respectively.
• A and B buttons: Move the right paddle up or down respectively (2-player mode).
• Left button: Pause and unpause the game.

Features

• Basic singleplayer mode AI that can be beat.
• Ball can travel at an angle (without floating point math!).
• Also changes its direction based on where it hits the paddle.

Things I learned

This game taught me the basics of vector math. I was able to calculate the new velocity of the ball based on its position and the center of the paddle it was hitting. After that, a version of Bresenham's line algorithm was used to animate the ball using ints instead of floats (a huge performance gain in the context of an 8-bit Arduino microcontroller!), mostly copied from Arduboy2's implementation.

Copyright

This project is under the MIT license.