DHeadshot wrote:Remember that Paddle War isn't just a Pong game - it has a certain feel and behaviour that sets it apart and to my mind makes it the best pong-style game ever made. Have you managed to replicatePaddle War in its entirety or did you just stick the graphics on a standard Pong clone?
Hi, at last I meet someone who shares the same opinion about Paddle War as me
I have put a lot of effort into reproducing the mechanics of Paddle War. I did screen captures and then went through the frames to measure paddle and ball velocities and rebound angles. I specifically avoided replicating the existence of the two places in Paddle War in which you can place your paddle, never move it, and still win every time. I'm open to suggestions if it needs more tuning.
Graphics are all done as vectors through OpenGL ES, not sprites but they try to look just like the original, and the court and object dimensions are all measured from it.
If you've only played under emulation, my version might look a little vertically stretched. That is because the original was made for a vga mode with non-square pixels, so when you play on an emulator on modern screen with square pixels you see the court slightly squashed vertically. I correct that effect to be closer to the original experience on a CRT. For instance the original ball is a 5x4 sprite, but mine measures 5x5 in arbitrary court units.
Here is what it looks like mid-rally:
On a decent handset it should be antialiased.
Sounds were hard to match exactly. I think that I have better rebound sounds but I don't have such a good score sound.
I hope you are interested enough to help out by running the app. Because the Android platform is so fragmented, there is no way to know if an app will work on any particular phone other than going ahead and trying it on there. Since I only have one very cheap and rubbish Huawei 8110 phone, I'm relying on the kindness of strangers to try it and tell me if it crashes (if it doesn't, there is an option on its main menu to launch a report email from the device - brings it up in your normal email program to edit and approve before sending). In exchange you get to keep the app on your phone and play something very similar to Paddle War whenever you like
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