Hey @kryzmak, @JellyNeck, @TwistedTwigleg I'm happy you enjoyed it and thanks for the complements n_n
@TwistedTwigleg yeah I wanted to add some difficulty settings but I had to cut them for time. I do find that people have a hard time with the ai at the begining but it gets easy after a couple of games, what makes it hard is speed. The real challenge is a game for 99 points! it gets creazy fast :sweat_smile: I almost got it once! :smile:
Hello everyone! :smiley:
I've just started making video games... ok that's not true, I've actually been trying to make games for about 10 years (more like 11 really) and only recently I managed to finally finish a game. It's a simple pong clone called YAPC and you can check it out in its dedicated post.
So I actually got into programming when I was 13 inspired by my favorite games and through my older brothers I discovered Python with which I fell madly in love, the thing is it might have been the main reason I never got to finish a game until just now.
As you all know, at the beginning we all have an 'idealism' problem where we want to make games that are too big and perfect to be real, to me it also translated in thinking python had to be my programing language (I still think it would be great but we just aren't there yet) . See the problem with loving python is that, being so flexible and freeing, other languages feel limited and claustrophobic and this stopped me too many times from making games, from finishing games.
I tried giving up python before, with godot actually, but still my idealism persisted. Only recently thanks mainly to Tim Roswick from Gamedev Undergroun did I finally decide to fully commit to a reachable goal, a finishable game to make in a short spam of time, and now here I am before you, finally a game developer.
Maybe I'm talking too much, the thing is I'm proud I can finally say: "I Make Games", and I'm mighty inspired to make many many more! But mostly I'm very grateful to the Godot team and everyone in this community who have been very nice and helpful this last few months, without you I would've never gotten this far and I wish I may be of help to others as well.
Please do checkout YAPC (https://godotdevelopers.org/forum/discussion/20147/yapc-yet-another-pong-clone) and let me know what you think of it. I hope you have fun playing it even if just for 2 minutes.
I hope to get to meet many of you, but until then: great gamedev to all! :smiley:
Welcome everyone, I bring to all of you... yet another pong clone! :D
I hope you guys enjoy this small game. It took me 10 years to finally finish my first game.
"What? 10 years?!" you ask in shock. Well yes, it was 10 years ago when I first felt the desire to make a video game... and then I never did because I had too big of an ambition and all my projects were crazy big for me to make alone, especially as my first project. Even after accepting that I had to start "small" I'd still come up with games too big for me. Turns out I didn't know what small actually meant. But finally after many years of unfinished project after unfinished project, and about three years of listening to Chris DeLeon from Gamkedo talk about hobby gamedev, and more recently Tim Roswick from Gamedev Underground talking about starting with Pong and all the advice he gives out daily, I finally managed to finish my first game — heck, to finish a game.
Yes is not as polished as it could be, and yes the AI could be smarter, and yes there could be more game options, and yes there probably are many bugs that I didn't catch, but all that doesn't matter. I set out to make a complete game and that's what I did and I'm damn proud about it. Not Perfect but Complete. This was my mantra during development (which by the way lasted two rather than one month as projected and also took me an extra month and a half to finally post it).
I know, you just want the download links but first I'll take just three more lines to thank the Godot development team who made this great tool accessible to everyone and to the Godot community who's members are always very open and friendly. Thank you.
Ok enough talk, here are links for the different systems: Linux (32bit) Linux (64bit) OSX Windows
You can also checkout the source code at https://github.com/paolobb4/YAPC. Maybe it'll be of help to someone :)
I hope you enjoy it and please let me know what you think of it. In the mean time I've already started working on my next project. I hope I'll have it ready for you soon.
Have fun and good dev to all!
