Updates for My Multiplayer Pong

On 11th of July I published my first Game on Itch.io called Pong. It was a simple Arcade Game with Multiplayer capability.

As it was my First Game, It was lacking polish, and some important features.

So as I realized about it I decided to Update it by trying to fix few small bugs and adding new features like Pause Menu.

I tried to have a look at my game and check for bugs, to see where which kind of feature could be added and how that part of game be polished.

Then I realized it was having a ton of bugs and space for bunch of new features, so why not?

I prepared a list for some work to be done.

So most important thing it was lacking was particles.

Particles can make player ignore bad game art. There wasn't any game art in my game except for slider, but still particles are nice thing to be added.

Then I thought about slider it was blank and boring, so I thought to reconstruct the slider, I made it hollow from inside.

Then it time for me to redesign the Menu.

It was redesigned in a simple way, but still is way better than earlier one.

I just changed its background color from white to grey. Changed color of mode selection buttons. Last step was to add border radius to those Buttons.

I also decided to add a Pause Menu in my game.

The way I decided to do it was to call a new function with its own independent while loop whenever Space key is pressed during playing the game. There were two options in Pause menu, one of then is to resume the play, and second one is to go back to Menu.

So here my game seems to be modified alot.

It surely is way better than before, but everyone have different opinion on Single Player mode. Someone called said it is very difficult and someone said its A.I is dumb. So I looked for a speed variable in my game that have control on difficulty of the Single Player Mode.

As I found it I made another function with independent while loop for difficulty selection of Single Player mode with three difficulties Easy, Medium and Hard. Hard difficulty is almost Impossible.

So these were all the upgrades that I added to my first game after publishing four games. This took more time than it should have because of my bad habit of Procrastination.

But still its "Done" and is much better than before.