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Name:	John Coyne
Date Posted:	Apr 11, 2008
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Another slightly off the wall idea of mine. Imagine pong crossbreed with pang and you get Bubble Choo Choo's. Bubble gum powered locomotives (told you it was off the wall!) chuff along the bottom of the screen, pumping out bubbles and polluting the atmosphere. The player cleans up the environment with 2 pong paddles and a ball, popping bubbles and raking in huge scores to impress his or her friends.
Like the abandoned Balloon Slide I'm hoping to get a pinball feel to this, unlike that other game, this one is quite fun to play on the prototype. No scoring atm or even lives, but its quite fun trying to hit a stack of bubbles in one flight of the ball.

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Joshua Dallman (Apr 11, 2008 at 17:35 GMT)

Pong was the original multiplayer action game and still has plenty of exploitative potential (see Plasma Pong, etc). Nice going on the combo, both Pong and Pang are among my favorite games. Post a demo on your GreatGamesExperiment.com page and promote it. Josh

John Coyne (Apr 11, 2008 at 18:41 GMT)

Thanks for the comment.
I hadn't even thought of a multiplayer mode (single player controls both paddles atm), now you mention it though, a 2 player mode could be a lot of fun. This is moving pretty fast so I should hopefully have something to upload by next week and get some feedback on how it plays.

Kevin James (Apr 12, 2008 at 22:47 GMT)

Looks promising. Are you using TGB?

John Coyne (Apr 13, 2008 at 19:38 GMT)

Thanks Kevin. :)
I'm using python and pygame at the moment.

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