(For the record, this is actually easier than Pong -- I was using the FPGA and Atari 50 remakes for reference. It's a beastly quarter-muncher.)
There is a phosphor trail on the ball for readability, but I kept it short for crispness/accuracy. I really should throw the option on the menu. Along with a ball glow.
In-game control switching would be nice (especially when I was testing and hit the wrong one), but I'm trying to lean on minimalism and A game/B game feels like classic Atari to me.
Big Old Scores come with the territory, but yeah, I realized they should be dithered immediately before realizing I really didn't want to redraw the fonts and probably nobody would care. Guess I bet wrong there.
Oh and the single-player mode is just, you know, control both paddles. It's not quite chess against yourself, but it's better than poker against yourself.
1.01 grants the setMenuImage wish -- great suggestion, and it let me write an instruction card. Also has the dithered score font and options to make the ball more visible (if less crisp) in bad light.
Nice! Already tried it! The trail length is a nice touch!
I have weird relationship with Pong since for me the "original" is the soviet arcade knock-off that had 5 modes. Only recently I tried the Atari version on original hardware and didn't like it.. But yours feels great!
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This is great! A bit too hard hard, but great fun for 2 on a sunny day, so the screen looks good from any angle)
Few wishes, feel free to disregard ;-)
Thanks for the game!
Thanks. And thanks for the feedback!
(For the record, this is actually easier than Pong -- I was using the FPGA and Atari 50 remakes for reference. It's a beastly quarter-muncher.)
There is a phosphor trail on the ball for readability, but I kept it short for crispness/accuracy. I really should throw the option on the menu. Along with a ball glow.
In-game control switching would be nice (especially when I was testing and hit the wrong one), but I'm trying to lean on minimalism and A game/B game feels like classic Atari to me.
Big Old Scores come with the territory, but yeah, I realized they should be dithered immediately before realizing I really didn't want to redraw the fonts and probably nobody would care. Guess I bet wrong there.
Oh and the single-player mode is just, you know, control both paddles. It's not quite chess against yourself, but it's better than poker against yourself.
1.01 grants the setMenuImage wish -- great suggestion, and it let me write an instruction card. Also has the dithered score font and options to make the ball more visible (if less crisp) in bad light.
Nice! Already tried it! The trail length is a nice touch!
I have weird relationship with Pong since for me the "original" is the soviet arcade knock-off that had 5 modes. Only recently I tried the Atari version on original hardware and didn't like it.. But yours feels great!