As part of a series of workshops we will be doing, we were taught the basics of a programme called ‘Processing’. After a few hours of messing around with rectangles and circles and colours (that’s the correct spelling for all you yanks out there who force us to code using color!) we were tasked with creating a simple game of pong. Sounded easy… oh how wrong we were.
When the workshop was finished we were asked to complete the game as ‘homework’. I knew what needed to be done to make the game work, it was just a question of finding the right code to do it and the right way to set out that code.
It’s now 2.35am and I have finally finished it. It took me 2 hours to figure out how to get text to appear in it and then another hour to figure out where to position that within the code so that when the background was redrawn, the numbers stayed there! FRUSTRATION!
Anywho it is all done and dusted now. So click here to see my pong.
Control is with the mouse for the left hand bat, and the Up and Down arrow keys for the right.
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