Project Notes

Version: 1.0

Move paddle with the mouse.

(Download it. It is faster than on-line)

MadPong is a regular pong game but with a twist. The paddle is not straight but curved. This means that you can apply a lot of effect on your strikes.

The ball starts of slowly but rapidly increases in speed later on. Can you beat 100?

Technical:

I needed a special approach to avoid the need for sin and cos functions on the curved paddle. The way it works is that the program tracks the x position of the ball. The difference in X between the ball and the paddle is simply taken as a paddle surface normal angle. The direction of the ball is then flipped around this normal thus producing the correct exit angle after the bounce.