This is excellent, creative and could also serve as a much less boring than pong project for starting reinforcement learning.
You don't need RL to compute the trajectory of a falling object.
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#52One 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.
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#53One 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 disagree with this. I think it is fun as is
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#54You have about 48h to be the first to put it in a mobile app store if you're into that. Cool concept!
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#56why does this have so many upvotes???????????????????????????
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#57Source code?
are you asking for the source code to a webpage?
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#58why does this have so many upvotes???????????????????????????
Why does this have so many question marks? Some things shouldn't be explained.
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#59Re: Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
#60"flappy badminton" - the shuttlecock aka a "birdie" is traditionally made with feathers https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttlecock )