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C#: text-based pong

jim bob · 2004-05-21T16:35:00

So I''m sitting here in C#, right? I''m minding my own business. Okay here''s the deal: Listen, I want to make a text-based pong game. I have my own ideas about the paddles and user input, but I am unsure about ball movement. I want to set up a (invisible to the user) grid/room for the ball to move in. Let''s say the room is 10x10 "units" in size. First of all, I don''t even know what a "unit" could be; in other words, how to represent this grid in memory, in relation to the context of the game. Any ideas? Secondly, when the ball hits a wall (four total), I want it to bounce off of it in a physically realistic way, as it would in real life. Any ideas on how to make a ball move in a virtual environment that the user cannot see? In all cases, if a ball hits a surface, will it reflect off at the same angle it hit, or no? I imagine I will need the computer to keep track of the position of the ball, the speed, and the direction... does that seem right? (A vector is a direction, correct?) Based on this data, I want the ball to move in the invisible arena. Then I want the computer to output data that will help the players decide how to move... in short. So, all in all... how might I do this without the user actually seeing anything but text? No graphics, just realistic math. How might you do it? I just want a few going ideas to run on. Thanks all for your help.

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Started by jim bob May 20, 2004 04:22 PM

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May 21, 2004 04:34 PM

quote:Original post by Matei

That post helped greatly, thank you for your time!

I know this sounds silly, but I wanted to try this more as a pong simulation, not a actually user-based interactive game. My ideas are odd and hard to explain, sorry.

Anyways, thank you much! I appreciate it.

[edited by - jim bob on May 21, 2004 5:35:00 PM]

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