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Deflectus!

[raw] LD32MiniLD 24. Mar 2015 · 16:24 UTC · 23 days before compo start by Erunaamo · 1

I’m in for Mini LD #58.

After creating CAN’T STOP THE HYPE TRAIN, a 1024-byte JavaScript game for JS1k, I was still itching to do some more minimalist game development for the HTML5 canvas.

CAN'T STOP THE YPE TRAIN

Then I happened to check the LD site…sure enough, a Mini LD had just begun, with just the kind of theme I was already leaning towards: very old school, minimalist, arcade-like. (Someone else in the JS1k rather astonishingly implemented most of Defender in 1k of (compressed) JavaScript. I’m jealous, and it got me thinking about old old games.)

So, PONG? Heck yes! Let’s have some PONG!

I did some late-night experiments and came up with a non-interactive demo of the visual concept I’ll be working with. It’ll be a game, hopefully, in a day or three, but for now it just looks pretty. (I think.) So click the pic to come to my blog and gaze at the glow of…

Preliminary concept art of a circular pong-like game.
Deflectus!

Comments

missn
24. Mar 2015 · 16:42 UTC
Nice, I’ve always like the concept of a circular Pong because you can pretty much just play against yourself (i.e. if you don’t reach the other side in time, you lose!).
Shadowspaz
24. Mar 2015 · 20:08 UTC
Circular Pongs unite!