48 Hour Pong Updated Again

New features:

• New background music
• TRIANGLE button changes background effect between: lines, visualizer (synched to music), static image or none
• SQUARE and CIRCLE now move your paddle as well as LEFT/RIGHT or the analog
• Slams added. To slam the ball simply push UP when the ball is near your paddle and it will slam into the ball. You get 3 slams per game.
• START button pauses and unpauses the game

You can change the background music by replacing the music.ogg file with one of your own.
Also the static background image can be changed by replacing the background.png file with a different one (480x272).

New screenshots:

Menu screen (also demo playing is in the top down view with 'lines' background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...reenshot_2.png

Playing game in 3rd person view (with static image background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...reenshot_5.png

Playing game in 1st person view (with visualizer background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...eenshot_22.png

Menu (with no background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...reenshot_0.png

Menu (with static image background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...reenshot_3.png

Menu (with visualizer background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...eenshot_15.png

The screenshots of the visualizer do not do it justice. In gameplay it looks excellent.

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Holy crap, that looks amazing. Good job!

if you updated
is it really 48 hour?

The first release was done within 48 hours, so the name will stay.

now about this 48 hours
is this 48 hours of work time
or just two days including sleep and such

also
does it include ideas floating around
and was anything premade
gooo

looks awesome,

For the first release I started on a Friday PM and released on the Sunday PM.

I spent about 20 hours total time within that period coding, getting the audio, doing the textures etc.

The only things that were pre-made were the OGG playback and the TrueType font renderer, which I took from another project of mine.

Both of the above are available on my website.

wow thats crazy man. great work.

wow I wish I had that kind of talent and preserverance

Very nice!

Thanks!

all i can say is wow. thx for this.

hey! im new and i need some help. i downloaded the 2 attachments on 48 hour pong and it said complete. but i went to my downloaded games and its not there. could u please tell me how to play that game?

well you dont need both attachments for one thing. what version is your psp?

This really is a amazing game, I see a good future for this game getting updated even more.

perhaps some game modes could be welcome now :)

That's probably the best version of pong that I've ever seen.

I know what would be good for this already excellent game, weapons, like fireballs, or lasers.

I never thought pong could be this damn good, awesome release!

I love this Pong game it's so nice ! even when there is more release on a new version !

looks good.

moddable?

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Originally Posted by Briggzy11

This really is a amazing game, I see a good future for this game getting updated even more.

perhaps some game modes could be welcome now :)

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Great again! :D Ive got to agree with Briggzy and suggest game modes for extra longevity :p (there ideas here already I see ;) )

omfg! another update? ur on FIRE!

Cool looks so good gona d/l it now.

*A idea may be ad hoc multiplayer

I'm open to any ideas any suggestions.

Thanks for the input.

Really nice work. Very fun :-)

Congratulations on a new great release, Insomniac197.
This is really awesome now, and I like the new slam feature.

I have a little suggestion: How about a two-player mode where player 1 uses the directional pad / analog and player 2 uses the symbols, like Bomberman Arena (which is very fun to multiplay).
That would be really great, but just a suggestion.

Anyway, fantastic game! :)

Oh, I just remembered the old Super Pong 95, it had some cool modes like hockey, 4-way hockey (four sides, where you use left and right to control the upper and lower, and up and down to control left and right sides (the slam feature would have to be disabled for that mode, though)) and some other modes, can't really remember, but perhaps someone else does?

i need help. how do u play the games that u download? i looked under saved data and games and its not there

i cant find it

Aww, and there was me writing you a new BGM to go with your next release... oh well. :D

hollydan, where did you put the file? Did you read any instructions on how to play homebrew games? Why would you look in save data? It is not a save game, or is that not obvious? You read about the files above - FW10 is for PSP Firmware version 1.00, FW15 is for 1.50. If you do not have either of these then you must downgrade or get the custom 2.71 firmware mod. Instructions can be found on the left panel of psp-news.dcemu.co.uk on how to downgrade.

I played the last release and the one problem I had with it was that the trajectory of the ball didn't seem to change based on how far to the side of your paddle the ball hit. This led to some situations where the ball went perfectly straight no matter what, so I had to sit there for a few minutes without moving the paddle before the AI missed for some reason. But other than that this is an amazing effort.

I love this game. I could play it for hours. What it needs though is an option for multiple BG songs. I have a loosely insturmental version of I Am (All of Me) from Shadow the Hedgehog set as my BG music.

This looks and plays beautifully! Congratulations on a wonderful homebrew masterpiece, Insomniac197! I really look forward to more of your work. Cheers!

nice an update!...*d/l'in*..... :eek: dude awesome, just awesome