Power Paddle

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#1

Last 2 days I have been working on a small game called Power Pong. I am planning on releasing it before the weekend as webstart etc. It uses Java2D and here is a screenshot:

http://darcone.naturalgamer.com/scr.gif

Tell me what you think!

And yes, it IS a type of PONG. But it is also better looking than most and has nice multiplayer support. nly thing left to write now is ball motion predictment :slight_smile:

------------------------- URL:s -----------------------------------
Game WEBSTART: http://darcone.naturalgamer.com/PowerPaddle.jnlp
Game JAR: http://darcone.naturalgamer.com/PowerPaddle.jar
Game SOURCE: http://darcone.naturalgamer.com/PowerPaddle_s.rar

Controls:

UP - E
Down - D
Pause - P

#2

No you haven’t! Its called Power Paddle. :slight_smile:

Looks nice, look forward to using the multiplayer stuff.

Kev

#3

Oh jeez I wrote Power Pong, what kind of programmer am I that cant keep track of my own project names :wink:

hehe yeah I actually started this one because the mini games for MSN suck so much and I want something to play with my friends.

#4

Hi,

looks cool. I’m looking forward for the multiplayer support.

ciao knudde

#5

As soon as I´ve fixed some mutex stuff in my netcode (crashed now due to it not being thread safe) it will be playable.

#6

And yet theya re still like the second busiest site on the net.

Ah the power of a monopoly.

#7

I must agree I play they sometimes… But they could be much better :slight_smile:

#8

Ok guys Ive made a .jar for you to try out. Expect it to be a bit buggy but Ive done my best in the little time I have 8)

You can start a stand-alone server by extracting the jar and just running Server.class ::slight_smile: or start it in the client at the intro screen just by pressing Enter. (pretty well explained at the intro screen tho). Have fun and tell me what you think! Btw its all TCP for now.

http://darcone.naturalgamer.com/PowerPaddle.jar :-*

#9

How do you control it? I start two instances on my Powerbook and connected them together… entered names etc… then I had no control except P-pause…

#10

IIRC … ‘E’ and ‘D’ ???

#11

Yups E and D hehe… oopsie,.forgot to tell :wink:

#12

I have now put up the source for PowerPaddle here: http://darcone.naturalgamer.com/PowerPaddle_s.rar .
Perhaps this will increase interest, at least for the less experienced ones :slight_smile:

#13

Can I have a web start please bob? :slight_smile:

Kev

#14

Yea Im working on it hehe… First big step was to make a .jar =P Which I honestly havent done before. Next step is to read through the messy WebStart doc.

#15

Toot my own horn here, but I wrote a tutorial for webstart:

http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/webstart-howto.html

Might make it a bit easier, or not… depends on how good it is.

Kev

#16

Hehe webstart… I took just one of kev’s webstart-thingies and opened it with a text editor… just changed a line or two et voilda - it worked :slight_smile:

#17

Hmm… I added the MIME type to apache I think but it won´t work for me… Try it yourself guys:

http://darcone.naturalgamer.com/PowerPaddle.jnlp

#18

Worked fine for me, webstarted quite happily… was getting 32 fps on my work machine too!! :slight_smile:

What platform, JRE/SDK are you running?

Kev

#19

1.4.2 glad that it ran nicely :slight_smile:

#20

Ok, the code up now is a bit buggy because I am working on UDP for the paddle etc movement, so the ball wont move.