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Re: Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong

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Post by pgt »

hessart wrote: post #128
throwaddzuzxd wrote: post #124

That's a fun concept, but you might want to speed it up a little bit. I stopped at 20 because I got bored, it's way too slow. The ball moves too slowly and the paddles should shrink a bit faster. The change that occurs between 1 and 20 should probably happen between 1 and 5, or 1 and 3 instead. Edit: oh wait, it's way more fun on Safari. On Firefox it feels slow and slugish, but on Safari it's great!

Hi. I've had the same (good) experience on both. Could it be something in your FF?

Ah, I also stopped at 19 and didn't even notice the paddles were shrinking! Yeah, maybe speed up.

And powerups in the middle that make ball bigger or grows one paddle again would be interesting.

Re: Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong

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Post by ArtWomb »

throwaddzuzxd wrote: post #124

That's a fun concept, but you might want to speed it up a little bit. I stopped at 20 because I got bored, it's way too slow. The ball moves too slowly and the paddles should shrink a bit faster. The change that occurs between 1 and 20 should probably happen between 1 and 5, or 1 and 3 instead. Edit: oh wait, it's way more fun on Safari. On Firefox it feels slow and slugish, but on Safari it's great!

It's fun on Chrome 98 / Ubuntu as well ;)

I think the game should scroll up infinitely as you progress. It will enhance the psychological feel of falling in space when the pong drops. And you can introduce levels, bosses, goals, etc.

The basic game play mechanic here is solid. Just like keeping a party balloon from hitting the ground!

Re: Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong

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Post by muzani »

jhanschoo wrote: post #52

One thing to consider to increase the difficulty is to make jumping add to the vertical velocity a la flappy bird, rather than fix it to a certain positive vertical velocity. Right now a reliable strategy is to let the ball fall to a certain angle below the paddle, then spam jump to get a fixed trajectory to the paddle.

I think it's just fine as it. The paddle gets smaller and the ball gets faster so it becomes more challenging to do that.

Re: Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong

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Post by listless »

hyperpallium2 wrote: post #60

"flappy badminton" - the shuttlecock aka a "birdie" is traditionally made with feathers https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttlecock )

I was gonna go with “Flappy Pong”, but either way, has major Flappy vibes. Great little game, though. Has the element that makes you want to keep playing it.
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