Comments on: Thousander Club Update: October 9th

By: GBGames

GBGames — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:24:38 +0000

Yeah, I guess we wouldn’t want it to resemble SimCity too much…B-)

By: Keith Weatherby II

Keith Weatherby II — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:30:16 +0000

I think a win condition would be important though, to calling it finished. If it doesn’t have a win condition, can we really call it a game?

Keith

By: GBGames

GBGames — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:38:48 +0000

Heh, I suppose getting a simple AI isn’t so hard. Maybe I will add it after all.

By: Impossible

Impossible — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:49:49 +0000

Argh… formatting got messed up… try this…

if(paddle.y+paddle.height < ball.y)
paddle.y+=paddle.velocity;
else if(paddle.y > ball.y)
paddle.y-=paddle.velocity;

By: Impossible

Impossible — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:44:10 +0000

A simple pong AI that actually works is just a couple of lines of code… Basically

if(paddle.y+paddle.heightball.y)
paddle.y-=paddle.velocity;

You should be able to replace your player 2 input code, which I imagine looks similar except it’s “if(key==’A')…” with that AI code and it should work. Don’t blame me if it does something retarded .

There are a lot of tricks you can add to make it more interesting to play against. Have it hesitate, overshoot or undershoot, etc.