myPong

[James]

First game I created. I used some code from other sources and added alot of my own. I think my version runs better and doesn't crash\lag.

Credits, aside from myself, I owe wargamer a BIG thank you for helping me out with the rendering.

Known issue (seems the collision isn't accurate. It seems it's a bit off the top of the paddle in comp & player).
Trying to figure out how to make it more accurate, but I'm a bit stuck.

Feel free to try it out for yourself. I'd like to hear feedback and if you want to make any changes or show improvements, feel free to do so. I will post the full source as well.

Version 1:
http://www.x-null.net/James/myPong/myPong1.zip


Version 2:
http://www.x-null.net/James/myPong/myPong2.zip


Version 3:
http://www.x-null.net/James/myPong/myPong3.zip


Version 4:
http://www.x-null.net/James/myPong/myPong4.zip


Version 5:
http://www.x-null.net/James/myPong/myPong5.zip

[blaz!ng]

i had a game kept winning lol seems the collision issue is only on the blue computer side. GG

[Elgan]

v.cool , good work, I am playing with games myself at the moment actually!

just going to reinstall pc, cos have so many sdks installed, nothing will compile!

[James]

I think my ultimate goal (once I get this working perfectly) is to make a bad ass "raptor" game if you guys remember that.

Actually what would be cool is when you're playing a obj in MOHAA, if you die early, you can toggle this pong game within MOHAA to keep you busy. until you respawn.

[James]

v2 is released. Updated first post. Please let me know what you think:

What's different:

Better AI
Optimized some things
Interpolated transitioning background (kinda pointless I know, but I wanted to try something different)


As always, please give me feedback and feel free to dabble through the source if you wish.

Future additions
Score
Menu with options
advancing levels
Timer
optimize background transitioning so it's smoother

[Elgan]

that's really cool, all coded or using libraries?

[James]

All coded. The source code is available

[wargamer]

Played version 2 for a bit and it seemed to work pretty good
Could not beat the computer. But that might say more about my Pong skillz than it says about the game.
It did go "blank" at some point though, after about 10 minutes. Everything just became white but the game kept on going.
And I'm glad I could help.

[James]

I did notice that after I debugged it more. wargamer, would you by any chance know what the problem could be?
I made a thread on GD here: http://www.gamedeception.net/threads...065#post159065
and I posted some pastebin links with the source. I'm not sure why it blanks after several minuts, but I'm also trying to figure out the transitioning errr.

Thanks again for your help!

[wargamer]

Figured out the blank error. In your "randColor" function you have the following:

HBRUSH color = CreateSolidBrush(RGB(rand() % 255, rand() % 255, rand() % 255));
HBRUSH color2 = CreateSolidBrush(RGB(rand() % 255 ,rand() % 255,rand() % 255)); 

However, you don't delete those brushes after you're done with them thus you'll eventually get an overflow of sorts.
Adding this before the return of that function seems to fix it:

DeleteObject(color);
DeleteObject(color2);