Hard Pong

[omundodogabriel]

Well, I'm new here on the forum, I became interested in Uzebox when I saw on the Internet, I have a Uzebox I asked my father to help make, he is good at soldering and already has several projects. The Uzebox is already up and running Now it's time to do some more games for him.

Well, the other day I was playing Pong, but since I only have one control for now, could not play 2. So I decided to add an AI. After a few hours trying to figure out how to use the AVR Studio, finally got it. I also colored graphics and added a simple menu ...

So there is my first mod for uzebox. Still missing something here and there, I'll fix later.
Sorry for my bad English... English is not my first language.

Controls:
Up/Down: Move the paddle
Start: Start the game and release the ball
Select: Go back to menu
B: Speed up the paddle

NEW VERSION 1.1
Changelog
- Better menu (with title!)
- Rewrote AI code (now with random values)
- Ball start at random Y position, and go to random sides (like on real game)
- Updated the kernel to the lastest version
- Added transparency to ball
- Some sprite changes
- Ball is now more fast, and game feels more fluid, thanks to the new kernel...

[uze6666]

Hi omundodogabriel, welcome to the Uzebox community!

Finally being able to play pong alone, that's a nice surprise! Pretty good start for a first effort. A feature to add would probably be a difficulty setting, cause I play 15mins and still 0-0!

[omundodogabriel]

Hi omundodogabriel, welcome to the Uzebox community!

Finally being able to play pong alone, that's a nice surprise! Pretty good start for a first effort. A feature to add would probably be a difficulty setting, cause I play 15mins and still 0-0!

I need some help on this... I rewrote the code. Here the new AI code:

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//AI
		if (X < 0) {
			if (Paddle[1].y != 96) {
				if(Paddle[1].y < 96 && Paddle[1].y < 184) {
					Paddle[1].y += 2;
				}else if(Paddle[1].y > 8) {
					Paddle[1].y -= 2;
				}
			}
			r = rand() % 25;		
		} else {
			if 	(Paddle[1].y + r != pBall->x) {
				if(pBall->y < Paddle[1].y + r && Paddle[1].y > 8) {
					Paddle[1].y -= 2;
				} else if(pBall->y > Paddle[1].y + r && Paddle[1].y < 184) {
					Paddle[1].y += 2;
				}
			}				
		}

i need to make the computer calculate the best position to hit the ball and the ball go to the oposite side of player paddle.

For now i will start working on my new project, a port of balloon fight for the Uzebox

[Kilo]

welcome to the community!!

Wow, nice work!
Yeah, I made an AI with Pong on my One Chipbasic Computer and I did it the same way.
But you have to do it like Uze said. You need at least 3 difficult levels.
Because when you let the AI calculate the best position, a game would take more than 15 minutes without any point to score!
So, when you set another variable to set the reaction rate of the AI which would be randomize, then the AI would slow down the movements without that it looks artificial!

[omundodogabriel]

I ended up doing something stupid, I left the code in the downloads folder, and today i accidentally deleted ... Well, I'm too lazy to retrieve the code, so this is the final version. My next project will be a port of Balloon fight.

[Kerby]

Hi! If you are about this game for the NES, I'll be glad to see her on Uzebox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_Fight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSKXykKsIiA

[uze6666]

I ended up doing something stupid, I left the code in the downloads folder, and today i accidentally deleted ... Well, I'm too lazy to retrieve the code, so this is the final version. My next project will be a port of Balloon fight.

Ah, that's bad news, unfortunately that's something that happens far too often. Put your next project in source control right away! Btw, balloon fight looks like a nice project, check out if you will have enough sprites thought.

[DaveyPocket]

Balloon fight has to be one of my top favorites!

Maybe this could incorporate online play if Uze finishes his network adapter

Would be awesome to do head-to-head over the internet, kind of like arcade version where the other side of the machine is second player:

[kaiyara]

The challenge with this game is really the video mode. It really needs to video pages to avoid flicker. A simple 1bpp mode looked too cheap, so I needed a custom mode which also renders the grid and the flashing cursor in real time. I'm wte surprised with speed, thought it would be much slower...