Interesting View On Ping Pong Game

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I don't know if this has been posted about or said already but a friend of mine was messing around with my phone and checking out the games I had for it and noticed that if you play Ping Pong in landscape, with the keyboard showing, it's just like playing the good old classic Pong. I thought it was interesting.

Originally Posted by KanJe West

I don't know if this has been posted about or said already but a friend of mine was messing around with my phone and checking out the games I had for it and noticed that if you play Ping Pong in landscape, with the keyboard showing, it's just like playing the good old classic Pong. I thought it was interesting.

I am the developer of PingPong and you are correct... well kinda. I tried to make ping pong so that it never actually rotates to landscape mode. So if you want you can just hold the phone sideways and play with the keyboard in...

I have been thinking about making some big updates to PingPong as I have learned a lot in the month since I released it (android features and coding techniques that I picked up while making WordWrench and BreakTheBlocks) BUT PingPong is a top 10 game in its category that has over 75,000 downloads and I am not sure if I want to mess with a good thing. I am open to hearing any thoughts on updated PingPong or simply ideas/requests for PingPong or any of my other games

Originally Posted by mpenguin14

I am the developer of PingPong and you are correct... well kinda. I tried to make ping pong so that it never actually rotates to landscape mode. So if you want you can just hold the phone sideways and play with the keyboard in...

I have been thinking about making some big updates to PingPong as I have learned a lot in the month since I released it (android features and coding techniques that I picked up while making WordWrench and BreakTheBlocks) BUT PingPong is a top 10 game in its category that has over 75,000 downloads and I am not sure if I want to mess with a good thing. I am open to hearing any thoughts on updated PingPong or simply ideas/requests for PingPong or any of my other games

Did you get the idea for break the blocks from an old atari game? I remember playing a similar game as a kid that had multiple players and same basic idea.

Originally Posted by stats555

Did you get the idea for break the blocks from an old atari game? I remember playing a similar game as a kid that had multiple players and same basic idea.

my personal inspiration is from a game on my TI-83 calculator... but the first game of this type was called "Breakout" and released on Atari, the next game of this type was called Araknoid... and now it seems that most people think of this type of game as "BrickBreaker" from the BlackBerry platform

I personally just think it is a fun game and a game that I would play over and over again... I think I almost have the gameplay issues sorted out, (optimize it further to remove the occasional lag of the ball, do a small graphics update, and decide if I need to further tweak the ball speed), maybe completely update the sounds, and then focus on making new levels for the paid version of the app

Best suggestions ever.

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Originally Posted by mpenguin14

I am open to hearing any thoughts on updated PingPong or simply ideas/requests for PingPong or any of my other games

1. Every time the ball hits a board it makes a super exloding sound that will rock the balls of the player beholding the Gexcalibur1 (that's what I call my G1).
2. Ricochet sounds when the ball hits the wall. Remember that scene in Robocop when there were these criminals in an arcade and some dude was holding this little turd hostage and Robocop didn't have a good shot, so he had to calculate where to shoot his gun so it would bounce and hit the bad guys? That scene will pop up in my head every time the ball ricochets off the wall. Holy crap just imagining these two ideas makes me want to pay $50 for this super awesome game.
3. After about 50 bounces, you reach level two which takes you to a sidescrolling beat 'em up where the two Pong boards have to fight there way through enemies like Super Merio and Tonic & Sails. The only way that the Pong boards could redeem their lost respect as a video game is to rip and tear... 1 gut at a time™.
(Make sure to have bullet time effects, the ability to reverse time, and awesome CG FMVs that will make Konami recall MGS4 due to embarrassment of their inferiority (which reminds me, make every FMV 3-4 hours long (about the battery life of the G1)))
4. Level 3 - FPS. Trackball as cursor control, touch screen is player movement, set in World War 2, my ideas are the best, your head is exploding.
5. Fund it.