Very annoying Pong

by sinusms

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.66

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.47

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Pong, but the ball is unstable and randomly changes its color.

If the ball is the color of your platform, you can deflect it like in normal Pong. However, if it is the color of your opponent, you need to parry the ball by pressing the parry button before the collision, otherwise your opponent gets a point.

There are a few items that spawn randomly for even more chaos.

Also, you can teleport.

#### Game Modes

Multiplayer: play against a friend with random item spawns

Singleplayer : play against a very very stupid AI with random item spawns

Wall Mode: no items, no opponents, just you and a big ass wall

Tools: Unity

Comments10

redmountainman15 Oct 2021, 14:07

Graphics are beautiful and it's a neat twist on pong. I had a hard time parrying on the html5 build, it seemed like 'D' didn't do anything?

awerar5 Oct 2021, 14:14

The visuals look great! Clean and simple artstyle! The gameplay was alright, but didn't feel too innovative. I feel like some sound would have elevated the game greatly!

TastiHam5 Oct 2021, 14:16

Basically just pong with a little twist, but well executed.
I really like the graphics, simple and consistent.
Controls could be more intuitive imo. Like left / right shift for teleport and space / control for deflect or something like that.

svemir5 Oct 2021, 14:19

Once you build up some speed, combined with teleporting and items things quickly get chaotic! That's a lot of fun, but I found it too hard to pay attention to the chaos and get it past the AI, maybe you could have an option to make them even dumber! I could see how this would be a really fun multiplayer game. The graphics and particle effects are well done too, just the right amount.

Fizzget9 Oct 2021, 22:37

Is it possible to be disappointing that a game was not as annoying as it suggests from the title? I enjoyed the game, the game play changes were interesting once i was used to them. I still lost of course!

megalukes11 Oct 2021, 03:31

Fun game. Controls were a bit awkward in my opinion. Congrats for finishing it!

der Mondhase20 Oct 2021, 20:15

Exactly what it says on the tin - I have sworn against the ball randomly changing color right before hitting my pad several times:D Good job managing to give good ol'Pong an interesting twist! Perfectly in theme for this jam :D

der Mondhase20 Oct 2021, 20:15

*due to a network failure, my comment was posted twice, sorry for the double notif*

Rengo21 Oct 2021, 19:09

pretty aight dont know what else to say

LDJam user 23791321 Oct 2021, 19:25

Really like the graphics on this one. Tell your Audio guy to get his act together :smile: Thanks for letting me play!

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