Pong AI

What it does

PongAI was supposed to be a bot that never lost a game of Pong. However, as the project progressed, we realized we could create a full-fledged game along with multiple game modes. Currently, our version of Pong has a singleplayer (easy and hard mode), multiplayer, training, and survival modes.

Challenges we ran into

The main problem that we ran into was the UI. Due to our limited experience with Pygame and Python in general, we had to learn everything as we coded. The main problem with the UI was that we were unable to call the functions without the computer lagging. We were able to figure out how to make the game work, but we could not create a working UI and menu. However, 15 minutes before this project was due, we were able to fix some indentation and now it works!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Even through our challenges, we are proud of how much we accomplished. Not only did we achieve our goal of creating a bot that plays Pong, we were able to create an entire game behind it. Our most proudest achievement is that we were able to create the game, menu, and UI all on our own. We did not follow a tutorial nor did we get inspiration from another person's code. We started from scratch and created our own game of Pong!

Built With

Submitted to

Hello World 2021

Created by

I wrote code to making the ball bounce across the screen in addition to making it travel in different angles depending on the part of the paddle it collided, controlling the movement of the paddle, and assisted others on their task as I had prior experience with Pygame and Python.

jlee2002 Lee
Even though Jang says he wrote the code for making the game run, I wrote half of that code. It was not all him.

Sean Lee
I created the main menu's and the UI's of the game. Used Python and Pygame for the first time to create the game.

spark005

Updates

jlee2002 Lee started this project — Sep 19, 2021 10:23 AM EDT

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