PlasmaPong

What the heck is this?

PlasmaPong is a game that is, most concisely, a psychedelic pong-like game. It is sort of a cross between an MP3 player visualization and my own variation of a paddle and ball game. Here's how it works:

You use the mouse to control four paddles, one on each side of the screen. The top and bottom paddles respond to left-right movements of the mouse, and the left and right paddles to the up-down movements of the mouse. This is where it starts to get tricky... The pairs of paddles move opposite each other, so up moves the left one up but moves the right one down. A left movement moves the bottom paddle left, and the top one right.

Of course, that's not the end of the brain twisting. The "ball" is more like an atom with a spinning cloud of dots around it, and all the while, there are trippy special effects going on in the background (I'd give you a screenshot, but the current working version doesn't seem to want to give me one).

Downloads:

Current versions

Old versions (see History as well)

DISCLAIMER: This software is provided WITHOUT WARRANTY under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

PlasmaPong v0.0.0.1B (the 'B' is because I tried to fix the text drawing routine, but it just broke it in a different way):

DOS Executable (runs under most Windows except NT--press the left and right mouse buttons at the same time to quit)
Source Code (compiles under Borland C++ 5--from the looks of the source code, I'm surprised it compiles at all)

Internal Links:

History - how this all came to be
Design Specification - how I intend it to be

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