I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to write a quick entry for the Game Creation Society‘s One Button Game Compo.
It requires Pygame 1.8, which can be installed through a package manager on many distros, or can be downloaded from Pygame.
The game is a pong clone with gravity. The one button activates thrust on your paddle, which happens to look like a rocket. In theory, there is pixel perfect collision detection, so the angle of the ball against the curve of the rocket should matter. The opponent rocket is controlled by some really really horrible AI. The game would be infinitely more fun with two players, but I wasn’t sure if the one button rule meant per player or total…
Update: I uploaded a better version of it with more accurate collision detection and better AI. There is also a two player mode that is activated by hitting the right arrow key, which is the thrust key for the second player. This is the final version for the game competition, and very likely the last time I will touch the code.
Download:
rocketpong.tar.gz
rocketpong.zip