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TGB - Game in a Day

by Rodney Rindels - Torqued · 06/08/2006 (10:13 am) · 5 comments

Pong Rally - Sit down with a friend at a keyboard, and Rally it out. This is a great way to blow off a little steam with a colleague, or settle your dispute the old fashioned way.. Head to Head!

I sat down yesterday to learn more about the physics, collisions, and triggers in TGB. 5 Hours Later, this is what I ended up with ..

2 player pong game with a few physics hints to shift gameplay a tad, + the concept of Rallying points the longer the ball stays in play.

a few touchups this morning on the resitution, and I''m pretty happy with it. The background is designed to make the player focus harder on where the ball is, and where its going.

If you would like a copy of it. You can download here carapace.servehttp.com/images/PongRally.zip

This is a compiled version, not a source Example. However if people request it, I'll post a tutorial on how to build it on TDN.

EyeCandy:
carapace.servehttp.com/images/pongRally.png
My next installment of this will be network playable. While I learn TGB networking.

Enjoy!
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Associate Justin DuJardin
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#1
06/08/2006 (11:12 am)
Rodney,

This looks really interesting, I'll check it out as soon as I get a second! Great to see people making cool stuff with TGB :)

Weeeeee, Cheers
-Justin

Torque 3D Owner Rodney Rindels - Torqued
Divide By Zero
#2
06/08/2006 (8:56 pm)
@Justin - People may not think Pong is not all that cool, but I can't think of a better way to successfully build something to learn Triggers, Callbacks, Collisions, World Limits, Speed, Velocity, Physics, and the Level Editor. In a day, and have a playable game to prove it! Most tasks in a "real" project are so large scale, alot of people give up before getting anywhere because they dont take baby steps I think. Up to now, I've been doing low level game stuff, and I'm just really starting to use the editor after --the documentor formally known as "tut" mentioned how helpful they have been to him lately. Figured I would give it a try.

thanks for the encouragement, I hope you get to give it a try soon and give me some feedback :-)

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
Torque
#3
06/08/2006 (10:19 pm)
Great style and progress in a day (btw also thank you for all the feedback you've given us - as well as me over IRC :)... nothing beats a good concise game, even the classics :)

Edit: I finally had to drop my nickname of "King Tut" (tut for tutorial) due to it giving Ben Garney nightmares with TDN rights and access

Torque 3D Owner Rodney Rindels - Torqued
Divide By Zero
#4
06/08/2006 (10:31 pm)
Ahh I had visions of you sitting on a golden throne too.. You need a new nickname.... :-)

And your welcome, hard work and effort deserves positive feedback!

I'm trying to get involved in the community as much as possible lately, I've found I learn tons more helping than I do staring at this blank canvas before me!

Torque 3D Owner Rodney Rindels - Torqued
Divide By Zero
#5
06/08/2006 (10:39 pm)
Yeah when I added "Torqued" to my name, it blew away all "My Contribution" links on TDN also, but the search feature works well enough to make it not a problem for me, and unlike you I haven't posted 20K pages :-)