[gabehabe]

OK, noted. I'm gonna work on a version 2 tonight

Thanks for the advice!

[Recoil]

OK, people are saying that the ball moves too fast? When I loaded it, I had more than ample time to move the paddles because the ball was moving very slowly...perhaps my system is lacking something, or has anyone else had the ball move very slow?

[Tom9729]

Recoil, on 17 Jul, 2008 - 04:32 PM, said:

OK, people are saying that the ball moves too fast? When I loaded it, I had more than ample time to move the paddles because the ball was moving very slowly...perhaps my system is lacking something, or has anyone else had the ball move very slow?

There's no timer so the game is going to run at different speeds on different machines.

gabehabe probably designed it to run normally on his machine. The people that it runs too fast for probably have faster computers than him. You probably have a slower computer.

[WolfCoder]

gabehabe, on 17 Jul, 2008 - 12:58 PM, said:

"I'm not as good as you think I am."

Fishing for compliments will get you nowhere.

Fishing for compliments?
Are you staying up too late or something?
I'm trying to tell you that it looks like you compliment too much or too easily.

[gabehabe]

When you say "I'm not as good as you think I am" it sounds like you're fishing.

And I don't give out compliments too often, you should appreciate it

And yeah, I just used SDL_Delay to do it, but ***n00b moment*** I thought that was classed as a timer

[Tom9729]

You may already know what you have to do, but in case you don't here you go because I'm too tired to explain it.

[lanec42]

Very cool, gabehabe. I'm looking forward to a version with a timer.

[gabehabe]

Thanks Tom, I have read a little about it, but that clarified it a bit more

[gabehabe]

Most likely the last version I'll do for a while now, I'm gonna leave a 2 player version for another time.

Updates:

• Added a timer
  
• Added a menu
  
• Added "help"
  
• Added "about"
  
• Added 1P v CPU option

Here it is:  pong.zip (1.63MB)
Number of downloads: 154

Final thoughts?

[Rickster0]

well done

i wish i could learn to do something like this

[gabehabe]

You'll learn someday

Take a look at the source code, it's included under ./src of the zip

[Trogdor]

gebehabe, are you using the sdl mainloop to arrange the timings for you?
it jumps all over when i run it in parallels on my mac.

atlantis does its delaying like this:

		if (thenTicks > 0) {
			nowTicks = SDL_GetTicks ();
			delay += (1000/fps - (nowTicks-thenTicks));
			thenTicks = nowTicks;
			if (delay < 0)
				delay = 1000/fps;
		}
		else {
			thenTicks = SDL_GetTicks ();
		}

		SDL_Delay (delay);

another way is described in the manual at intro.en/usingtimers.html

from the manual:
Tip:
In general, when implementing a game, it is better to move objects in the game based on time rather than on framerate. This produces consistent gameplay on both fast and slow systems.

hope this helps.

[Tom9729]

Trogdor, on 18 Jul, 2008 - 12:37 PM, said:

Tip:
In general, when implementing a game, it is better to move objects in the game based on time rather than on framerate. This produces consistent gameplay on both fast and slow systems.

hope this helps.

I think we could argue over that.

Might just be a personal preference, but I would prefer my games to sync to the framerate, and then have a modifiable 'game speed' parameter. If you're playing on an old computer that can't stick with whatever the framerate is set at, lower the framerate and increase the gamespeed (this could be done automatically).

May cause problems with multiplayer games though.

[PsychoCoder]

Why are the controls backwards? When I press the Up arrow the paddle goes down, and visa verca

[gabehabe]

It's supposed to be like that.

The left paddle will move up, and the right paddle will move down.

Kind of a pong spin-off sorta thing