Pong in the shortest code
sed, 35
Raising the bar a bit with a postage-stamp sed meditation.
s/> / >/
s/ </< /
s/0</0>/
s/>1/<1/
The meditation is enjoyed on stdin/stdout on two computers, not necessarily connected by a network. The meditation begins in the state
0 < 1
with guru zero on the left and one on the right. The angle bracket moves left and right, and if a guru maneuvers their number to contact the cursor as it comes to their side, their score is increased by one, and they become elated with joy.
The meditation is initiated by typing the above state into sed -f medi.sed, and the computer responds with the next state. The dutiful guru types that state into the meditation, reading aloud the next key they will press, with both gurus pressing the holy key to enter the future at the same time. The dutiful computer replies with the next state. This, in turn, is read aloud while typed in unison as with the last. Continue advancing into the future until infinite bliss is achieved.
Gurus desiring a challenge may play 'turbo' mode, wherein the gurus attempt to collaboratively predict the computer's next state, and typing it into the prompt instead of the current state. Gurus will have the wisdom to verify agreement between their predictions before entering the future.
Javascript, 883 (+ 70 HTML)
c=document.getElementById('c').getContext('2d')
c.fillStyle="#FFF"
c.font="60px monospace"
w=s=1
p=q=a=b=0
m=n=190
x=300;y=235
u=-5;v=3
setInterval(function(){if(w&&!s)return;s=0
c.clearRect(0,0,640,480)
for(i=5;i<480;i+=20)c.fillRect(318,i,4,10)
m+=p;n+=q
m=m<0?0:m;m=m>380?380:m
n=n<0?0:n;n=n>380?380:n
x+=u;y+=v
if(y<=0){y=0;v=-v}
if(y>=470){y=470;v=-v}
if(x<=40&&x>=20&&y<m+110&&y>m-10){u=-u+0.2;v+=(y-m-45)/20}
if(x<=610&&x>=590&&y<n+110&&y>n-10){u=-u-0.2;v+=(y-n-45)/20}
if(x<-10){b++;x=360;y=235;u=5;w=1}
if(x>640){a++;x=280;y=235;u=-5;w=1}
c.fillText(a+" "+b,266,60)
c.fillRect(20,m,20,100)
c.fillRect(600,n,20,100)
c.fillRect(x,y,10,10)},30)
document.onkeydown=function(e){k=(e||window.event).keyCode;w=w?0:k=='27'?1:0;p=k=='65'?5:k=='81'?-5:p;q=k=='40'?5:k=='38'?-5:q;}
document.onkeyup=function(e){k=(e||window.event).keyCode;p=k=='65'||k=='81'?0:p;q=k=='38'||k=='40'?0:q}
/* Variable index:
a -> left player score
b -> right player score
c -> context
e -> event
i -> counter for dashed line
k -> keycode
m -> left paddle y
n -> right paddle y
p -> left paddle y velocity
q -> right paddle y velocity
s -> is start of game
u -> ball x velocity
v -> ball y velocity
w -> game is waiting (paused)
x -> ball x
y -> ball y
*/
The script can be placed at the end of <body> or called onLoad. It needs the following canvas element:
<canvas id="c"width="640"height="480"style="background:#000"></canvas>
Player 1 uses the q and a keys, and player 2 uses the p and l keys. Press the esc key to pause and any key to start/continue.
You can play it in your browser here.
I wasn't sure of the physics to use, so I started off with a simple reflection method and then added some variety and experimented with it a bit. The ball's velocity in the y direction is affected by where on the paddle you hit the ball, so you have some control over where the ball goes. The ball's velocity in the x direction slowly increases with each hit in the rally.
I suspect that it will be beaten quite easily by solutions using libraries, but I had fun making it in plain javascript.
Python (with pygame) 650 bytes
Features
- 1 and 2 player modes - When the game begins, press 1 for 1 player, or 2 for 2 players. The game will not begin until one of these keys is pressed.
- Increasing ball speed - Each volley, the ball speed is increased so that after 10 volleys it has increased by approximately 50%, after 20 it will be 50% faster than that, etc.
- Variable ball deflection - Ball deflection is based on two factors: what portion of the paddle it strikes, and whether or not the paddle is moving upon impact. If the ball strikes the paddle near one of the ends, it will be deflected more strongly than if it strikes near the middle (almost as if it were a curved surface). Additionally, if the paddle is in motion, the motion of the paddle is added to the deflection. In order to obtain the strongest deflection, the ball must strike near the end of the paddle, and the paddle must be in motion towards that same end. This is very similar to the original Pong for Atari 2600.
- Pause - The game may be paused at any time by pressing the Space bar. Play will resume upon pressing the space bar a second time.
- Controls - As with the example, player 1 moves with the Q and A keys, and player 2 moves with P and L.
As a final note, I would like to request that this solution not be selected as the accepted answer, for various reasons.
from pygame import*
init();d=display;s=d.set_mode((640,480))
g=p=16;j=q=80;x=y=200;o=t=h=v=1;z=m=n=0;w=[255]*3
while s.fill(time.wait(3)):
event.get();k=key.get_pressed();t^=o*k[32];o=1-k[32];z=z or-k[49]-k[50]*2;e=k[113]-k[97];f=[k[112]-k[108],(h>0)*cmp(y,q-32)][z];a=p<g;b=q-[y,x][a]
if p%608<g:m,n,p,h,v=[m+1-a,m,n+a,n,g+a*592,p,1-a*2,h/-.96,1,b/32.+~[f,e][a]][-g<b<j::2]
for r in[(0,x,g,j),(624,y,g,j),(p,q,g,g)]+[(316,i*31,8,15)for i in range(g)]:draw.rect(s,w,r)
if z*t:v*=(0<q<464)*2-1;x-=(0<x-e<400)*e/.6;y-=(0<y-f<400)*f/.6;p+=h;q+=v
c=font.SysFont('monospace',j,1).render('%3d %%-3d'%m%n,1,w);s.blit(c,(320-c.get_width()/2,0));d.flip()
Sample screen capture:
Note: the font used for the score may vary from system to system.