Pong

Without further introduction, I (HEnK) present to you....
My OWN made pong version 2!!!
Just click below to select a one player game or a two player game.

One player game of pong

Two player game of pong

Updated: oktober 21, 2005
Hello folks!
I've updated pong version 2! Check Pong 2.1. It has a few things fixed. Also the site got
a bit of a remake.

  • First off the site changes. You see I now add dates to my "posts". This way you can keep
    track of "interesting" changes. Secondly I've made a kind-of manual for pong. Check the game
    and just scroll down.

  • It seems that there was a bug in Pong version 2, when your bar was in
    a low place in the gamefield, and you got a powerUp that increased the size of your bar, it
    would get stuck.
    This was because there is a check if the bar hits the borders of the field. If it does,
    the yMovement of the bar will be set on 0. When the bar got bigger, it exceeded the border
    and yMovement would be set to 0.
    Now, when a bar gets bigger, the y position of the bar will be set on a higher position if
    the bar gets larger and with that exceed the border.
    For this I've changed some things in the powerUp class,
    added a method setYPos(int yPos) in the class Form and a method returnHeight() in the game
    class. (it's a get method, but not name getHeight() because it would override the getHeight()
    method of the Canvas and with that create problems :) )

  • Other thing is, when a game of pong started, you had to pause and resume the game to
    let it react to the keyboard. I've now made a "START!" button. So you don't have to pause
    and resume again. Of course these functions remain.

    • Updated: oktober 16, 2005
    Well, I've done some work on my second pong. And of course, you may all take a look
    to see what kind of work. That's why my pong now is open source (for all you freaks out
    there with nothing better to do ;) ).
    The code is rarred as exe file (so you don't need rar to extract). The rarred file contains
    the whole JBuilder 2005 project. In SRC you can find the .java files if you only need those.

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    Project files Description
    Pong version 2.1 The bar bug has been removed and the game now has a start
    button. Check date: oktober 21, 2005 above for more info.
    For some unknown reason I could not upload this file.
    Hopefully soon to come!
    Pong version 2 This is my second pong.
    For opensource purposes I've added a LOT of comments in the code.
    Also there are new powerUps and double buffering in this version.
    Though I've done a lot to make the code better than that of the first version of pong,
    there are still some things that could be done better (think of movement with a
    timer, of a thread for each ball, which in fact WAS in the first version,
    I've changed that for some, I don't remember, reason).
    Pong My first version of Pong.
    After completing the first year at my new school I've
    decided to test my skills. This is the result of it. The version contains a few
    bugs like, a bit of the bar disappears after the ball hits it and sometimes the
    ball rolls over a powerUp but doesn't take it.
    The code was made for my eyes only, so there's no comment, and you should find
    out for yourself what methods do.