Hi I just started working with Scratch and Im having tons of fun finding the solution to the problems at hand, but I can't seem to find a way to make the speed of the ball exponentially increase when it hits the paddle.
U can check on my profile what I have so far. Thanks in advance!

Change the number of steps the ball moves to a variable. Have that variable increase when the ball hits the paddle.

Like Lifeoftheparty29 said, you'd want the number of steps that the ball moves by to be a variable, let's call it Speed. Once you want the the ball to move faster, you multiply the Speed variable by a constant number. For example, whenever you want the speed to increase, you'd run:

Increasing the 1.5 value will cause the speed to increase faster, while a lower value closer to 1 will cause the speed to increase more slowly. Values lower than 1 will cause the speed to exponentially decrease.

If you wanted a linear increase in speed instead of an exponential one, you'd simply do:

The value that you add on to Speed would determine how much faster the ball would go every time you increased its speed.

Then, all you need is a way to periodically launch the above code. You could have a counter variable that increases by 1 every time a paddle is hit. Then, every time the counter reaches a certain number, it increases the speed, and then resets the counter.

I did something similar with variables and functions, but obviously not correct. Anyways good to know that I was looking in the right direction at least. Thanks!

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