terminal-pong
A simple 2-player game of pong for Windows terminal, written in C
Using a terminal with UTF-8 support (such as Windows Terminal) is highly recommended - on standard cmd, your ball will be a rectangle (change in pong_draw.h).
Working features
- Game automatically adjusts on launch to fill screen buffer
- Left pad is controlled by W/S, right by up/down arrow keys
- New characters are only printed when strictly necessary, no reprint of entire screen on every frame
- Game speeds up progressively
- Score of each player is displayed in a header row
Partially working features
- Game stops and announces winner after 9 points - this is hardcoded in pong.h
- Support for multiple difficulties (EASY, MEDIUM, HARD) - this is also hardcoded, change in main.c. Difficulty changes:
- Game speed
- Interval at which game speeds up
- Speed multiplier that is applied each time it speeds up
- Length of player pads
- Slope of the ball is also hardcoded, but change a number in a few places and the game will behave accordingly
Missing features/bugs
- Slope of ball should change depending on where it hits the pads (Atari Breakout-style)
- Option to choose between AI and player control for each pads
- Sometimes the ball gets drawn on top of pads for some reason? This isn't a huge problem
- Some error handling would be nice, but isn't priority
- Simple menu system or input parameters to change variables mentioned in partially working features
- Cross platform support would be amazing (but linux input sucks and external libraries are a hassle + bloated)