03.04
Pong! is just a simple PONG game I’ve been writing for the past 2 weeks or so. I always wanted to code a pong game since I started my study in computer science but I always postponed the project for various reason. It’s just a couple of week ago that I finally found the excuse to start working on it. I wanted to learn to use the Clutter library!
Pong!
First of all, I was amaze with the ease I actually did that game. Clutter is very straight forward and I had no problem at all to catch the basics concepts and as for the Pong game itself, my passion for math (and vector calculus) have been a blessing when it came to calculate the ball trajectory and speed.
I know that a pong game is nothing fancy but I’m fairly proud of the result. It also gave me experience with Clutter and Cairo. All the code is written in C (because I love C) and depend on GTK+, Clutter-0.8, Gconf-2.0. The game is not complete, well sort of. You can play without worry but there’s no preferences windows and the corner aren’t as polished as I would like but still, completely usable.
You can clone the source code with:
git clone git://github.com/guillaumebel/pong.git
Feel free to leave me comments!
I’d be willing to translate it in French. Any plans for i18l support ?
Of course, I’ll put in on my TODO list. Pong! is an experimental project so there’s still a lot of rough edge and I don’t know when I’ll have time to work on it again… but like I said, definitively on my TODO list
Any plans to integrate this into a new release of gnome-games?
Maybe, who knows?
Right now I’m quite busy with Nibbles but when I’ll have more time I’ll polish Pong, make it meet the gnome-games requirement and propose its inclusion in gnome-games.