Richard Lyon

Paddle Ball

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Paddle Ball is a simple 2 player pong clone created using C# and XNA. If you like this game or have any queries/comments regarding the game or source code please feel free to leave a comment or send me a message using the contact form.

Controls
Gameplay
Screenshots
Downloads

Controls

Space Bar – Releases the ball at the start of a point.
Player 1 Controls
‘W’ – Move paddle up
‘S’ – Move paddle down
Player 2 Controls
Up Arrow – Move paddle up
Down Arrow – Move paddle down

Gameplay

At the start of each point the ball starts out each point moving either left or right, and slightly up or down.
Each player must try and get the ball past the other players paddle in order to score a point.
The first player to 10 points wins.
Each time the ball hits a players paddle the ball horizontal speed is increased. Players can alter the ball direction by moving the paddle whilst they hit the ball, for instance if the player is moving their paddle upwards when they hit the ball the ball will return with a more upwards trajectory, or less downwards trajectory if the ball was moving downwards when hit.

Screenshots

Downloads

If the game fails to run please make sure you have the .NET framework installed at least version 3.5, and the XNA Framework Redist 3.1.

Paddle Ball (151 KB zip file) – The actual game compiled for Windows.
Paddle Ball Source Code (566 KB zip file) – The Visual C# project containing the source code for the game.