#20 Games Challenge

My take on the #20 Games Challenge

The goal of the 20 games challenge is to gradually learn more about game development through a series of small projects. At the end of the challenge, you should be comfortable creating games in your engine of choice without a tutorial. 

This challenge was proposed and made by SDG Games. You can view more about it here.

Note: As of right now, I have only completed one of the games, but rest assured, more games will be dropped by soon, and are currently being worked on. In the meantime enjoy my take on Pong and Breakout :)

Game #1: Pong 24

Pong was the first widely successful arcade game. It was released in 1972, and started the first arcade boom. The game may seem simple today, but it was designed directly in hardware. Essentially, Pong was a specialized computer designed to bounce a ball between two paddles and keep score.

Pong 24, while being similar as Pong introduces a small twist. Instead of resetting ball's position after a point has been scored, the ball continues it's trajectory and the game ends only after a player scores 24 points before the other.

Controls: Player 1- Up and Down arrow keys
                       Player 2- W and S keys

Game #2: BreakOut

Atari’s first successful game (Pong) was massively successful, but many companies made clones of the game, which eroded Atari’s profits. Their response was to make new and innovative games in order to stay ahead of the competition. Breakout was a direct descendent of Pong, but was designed for one player instead of two. It came out in 1976.

BreakOut here has the twist that each level is actually randomly generated, with certain rules to abide by, each new level that gets played, is random each time. So theoretically, the level in which you fail, you might never be able to succeed in again... :o

  Controls: Left and Right arrow keys