The Round Pong in one day

The past days I got demotivated, because all jam games I started . I have never finished . Then I saw the Saturday Jam  and thought if 3d is too hard for me just make a game in one day in 2d .

The Theme was  What leaves, comes back!, but I only read the optional Themes: everything is round and You are not suppost to be here

So I thought of Pong, but the Players are round and the arena too. Then Someone told me that the theme is : What leaves, comes back! and I thought, well I can include that.

I made more space behind the goals, so the ball can leave the screen, and jumps right back !

I started with making the glow effect, and I think it turned out pretty well. Then I made the Player and the control of the player: up and down arrows? NO, I like  my mouse more! So i made it controlled by mouse. After that I searched for a Pong Tutorial and skipped until the part with ballmovement and copied it. I played around alot with it, but I realised that without an opponent it is pretty lame so I searched for opponent AI, because my technic didn't work  and copied it. 

Now I thought the game would be ready to play. So I began to add Particles like a goal explosion, and the Balltrail . Unfortunately, the goalexplosion didn't want to be here anymore and went away while uploading :(. 

A game without a main menu is no game, so I added one and created fast and slow mode which created mistakes with communication between the scenes. But I fixed it. 

I also started adding Sounds I made in audacity.

And thanks to  Bananamonke I also got free music for my game!

Then I realised that the AI always wanted to own goal ... so I made the AI stop chasing the ball if it is behind it. That helped alot now it happens not so often.

Then I started making changes to the ball when It touches something it gets faster.

The one Screenshot here with the gigantic sun is a little mistake in the code a - xD. I wanted to make the ball smaller everytime it touches something, but I made it bigger so it wasbig within seconds. The feature that the ball shrinks is not included btw.

Today morning, I stood up and realised it is nearly 9 o'clock and I sprinted to my computer, added a Introduction dokument and uploaded it 3mins before puhh.

I wouldn't believe myself if I said to me I made this in 1 day. I hope I learned much from this project and can hop right into the next one.