Yep. Pong. In first person. Almost.

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Yea. One day on exam leave I came up with this crazy concept of things in different dimensions. 2-D: up/down, in/out. Plus some other stuff. The I thought of what a modern day pong would be like, pong but HD played on a lush green field (I know it’s supposed to be a table-tennis sim). Yeap.

So I started to make a pong clone first and here it is:

Very bare bones but functional. I’ve already started to pull the x and z cordinates from the sprites and plugged them into papervision. Works…OK, looks really bad though.

I’m thinking of making a model of some grass and baking ambient occlusion¹, BUT I’m not quite sure how to animate it with AO…

Gameplay wise, the player will progress through time from no backgrounds to mario style to say SNES-esque to Next-Gen². To progress the player simply needs to beat the AI³. Oh and the players stays as a brick.

1. Which looks rad [↩]
2. Or rather current-gen [↩]
3. Which is balls hard at the moment [↩]