Howdie Pong

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Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.24
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.48
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.23
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.50
A pong game where YOU are the paddle.


Controls-
-Use your hand to control the paddle on screen to avoid the ball hitting you.

Everyone has played the classic pong game in some point of his/her life. A game where you control a paddle and to avoid the ball hitting your area and reflecting it back to other side of the court. " Howdie Pong AR" is a 3D augumented reality game where you control the paddle using your hand by waving it in front of the camera.

The twist here is that every ten seconds you survive, another ball gets added into the game. To keep playing you will have to keep atleast one ball in the court. The more balls you handle, the higher the score you will get. Try to reflect as many balls as you can to get higher score.

Good Luck!!!!

P.S. The pong bat is controlled by WebCam. A webcam is must for running the game. Make sure that your webcam is on! :)

Comments5

🎤 LDJam user 2979806 Oct 2022, 16:44
@sublustris That is a great Idea!
🎤 LDJam user 2979806 Oct 2022, 16:44
@chakit Thanks for the valuable feedback. Will look into Porting this to WebGL!
🎤 LDJam user 29798011 Oct 2022, 10:29
@barna That might be my next project!
LDJam user 23762318 Oct 2022, 00:11
I was really surprised how well that worked! I did struggle to hit the ball sometimes though. It was usually near the edge of the screen. I think it was hard for me to anticipate the ball position there because of the perspective. I saw you did add a light to the ball which should help with the depth perception. The paddle movement itself though was pretty solid which I'm sure was the hardest part of the development.
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