The goal of this project is to create a small Pong clone that can be played on one computer and with one keyboard. This allows two players at the same computer to play against each other directly from the web browser.
I've been interested in game design and development for a while, and Pong is a common first project. In my variant, I will allow users to play with each other while they are together in person. It's a simple, fun project that can be expanded upon in a number of ways.
The target audience is broad, since this is meant to be a single-screen website with the Pong window in the very center. I'd like for it to be usable by school-aged kids, much like the web games I played in elementary school when I was supposed to be working.
As a full-fledged game, PortaPong will make extensive use of Javascript for inputs, internal math, and drawing the output.
I plan on doing this solo.
I will use Git and GitHub to manage version contrul, as well as to transfer my code from my personal computer to the school's server.
I might be able to use the info from here to describe how to set up a basic animation system for the game.
For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think and only requires the trifecta of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.Article on css-tricks.com
I might be able to use some of this for calculating vectors, and maybe even implementing basic physics!
Simple bouncing balls simulation using plain JavaScript. Drawing in HTML Canvas, also plain CSS is used. (without third-part frameworks/code)Repository on GitHub