Pongless by Otoris

made by Otoris for LD26 (JAM)

Pongless is Ping Pong without the "Pong"

Controls:
A/D or Left/Right Arrow to rotate your beam.
SPACE to activate the force push.

The goal is to knock the ball into the blue opponent's goal post.

There is a gravitational force around both goal posts that can be used to your advantage occasionally.

A minimal take on Pong - By http://ajaxstudios.com

Credits: Tareoflight - Designer, Otoris - Developer
(For the record: First project in Unity ever! :D)

Web	http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11371126/asset-test/pongless/pongless.html
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=22814

Ratings

Coolness	40%	1535
Overall(Jam)	2.92	353

Audio(Jam)	3.05	227
Fun(Jam)	2.52	410
Graphics(Jam)	2.80	382
Innovation(Jam)	3.52	97
Theme(Jam)	3.08	350

Feedback

Ty Taylor

30. Apr 2013 · 03:03 UTC

It feels like the opponent has much more control than I do.

epaik

30. Apr 2013 · 04:29 UTC

The ball got stuck rotating around me, I couldn't dislodge it despite spamming space.

Gremlin

30. Apr 2013 · 04:31 UTC

The AI is way better at this than I am.

The rotation doesn't feel smooth, which makes it a bit hard to aim precisely (are you using float or int for the rotation?). Also, the force push feels a little short.

I really liked the sounds. Glad to see more people learning Unity.

3beards

30. Apr 2013 · 04:32 UTC

I enjoyed the chill music and wooshy air sounds. Neat idea.

Deadlyapps

30. Apr 2013 · 04:33 UTC

I second this comment: It feels like the opponent has much more control than I do.

Lianne Booton

30. Apr 2013 · 04:33 UTC

I like the audio and concept, but like a previous commenter said, I do feel like the opponent had a better control than I did. For a first project in Unity this is impressive though, so kudos :)

Almax27

30. Apr 2013 · 04:34 UTC

Interesting idea, maybe using the mouse to control rotation would be more intuitive? The AI kind of ruins the experience and there were odd instances where the ball wouldn't respond to the 'push', but I could see this working well with 2 human players.

LizEngland

30. Apr 2013 · 04:59 UTC

Yeah, AI is better than me and seems to be able to vacuum in the puck, whereas I can't. However, I liked the idea. There's lots of variations on pong, and this is the first time I've seen this type.

ilovepixel

30. Apr 2013 · 20:16 UTC

Nice twist on the pong style game. Really enjoyed it.

acro

30. Apr 2013 · 20:23 UTC

Fun take on classic pong but the AI seems to be too difficult, either that or I'm just really bad :( I like the music, the game kind of looks like 2 lighthouses signaling to eachother :)

pentaphobe

30. Apr 2013 · 22:39 UTC

Really cool idea, with a little tweaking I could quite happily play this as a relaxing game.

Can you actually beat the AI? I'd love to see a video

🎤 Otoris

01. May 2013 · 06:11 UTC

You can TOTALLY beat the AI. ;)

It's just ridiculously hard.

@arco Never thought of them as lighthouses until now! Great... Thanks. -_-

The control scheme isn't perfect and I would definitely do mouse controls, or at least a smooth acceleration with keyboard.

Grouflon

01. May 2013 · 18:22 UTC

Very interesting entry, kind of hard to control but I scored twice, so I feel good about it... It could be great to have a little more control in the rotation of the green light, I think it's way too fast and the "step by step" is to large. Anyway it's a great turnover on the pong mechanic, I appreciate it :)

🎤 Otoris

02. May 2013 · 20:22 UTC

@Grouflon I don't understand what you mean by "step by step"?

SnoringFrog

02. May 2013 · 20:39 UTC

I'm just going to echo what almost everyone else has said so far: love the idea, but the AI is too difficult (and on top of that I sucked at knocking the ball away from myself anyways).

messiano

05. May 2013 · 04:09 UTC

AI needs some tweaks!

peaveyj

07. May 2013 · 05:48 UTC

Fun implementation and interesting take on pong. Seems well polished to me. Nice job.

GameNacho

08. May 2013 · 19:56 UTC

Cool game, I like it!