OO Game Programming tutorial - Part 14

What else needs to be done?

Yeah this game is pretty boring. You will need to add a few things to get it playable and looking sweet. I've given you the basic frame work, now it's your turn to add some things.

Here's some suggestions:

• Make the ball speed up slowly add the game continues (we added an attribute where you can easily to this earlier).
• You may have noticed the collision detection for the ball hitting the paddle isn't prefect. It can be.
• Make the ball come off the paddles at different angles depending where it hits.
• Make the board and paddles 3D.
• Add some texture mapping.
• Sound effects and Music (check out the FMOD library, it's easy as!).
• Make the ball a particle system (search for a tutorial on this).

You can check out the one I created before from the link on the main page.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial - good luck in your projects and remember it is all just practice!

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