   My 2nd game, your thoughts again
  Hey I just made my second game. It's a pong type game with a tennis twist, the game was done using DD and Lamothe's gpdumb engine. It's not completely finished, I still have to make the ball direction change based on where the ball hits the paddle (you can't control where the ball goes, just hit it).  But I wanted to make a release before I got to that because I don't know how long that addition will take and I wanted some feedback on the game in general and my coding techniques up to this point.  You can grab the game at:http://geocities.com/adamskiz/Programming/BounceTennis.zipor at my Game Programming Journal blog athttp://adamgames.blogspot.com/ (it's on the Bounce Tennis project on the right)Thanks for the input!   
  Congratulations on actually completing a game! Even if it is a pong style game, an element of pride should still be felt.I like the audio and fade effects that occur. You should add maybe some animation, like the ball spinning and the bats swinging.To make the ball simply change direction, either add some randomness into it, i.e.  ball.x += vel.x + rand( ) % 2; etc... or, judge where the ball hit the bat via collision, then according to how close the ball was to the center of the bat, that could be how straight the ball will travel from the bat, i.e. ball.x += vel.x + BallDistanceFromCenterOfBatX;   ;  Hey awesome game! :)You gave me great ideas how I could make a game! Thx alot! I also like the sound effects.You could add a special trick like the ball moving randomly around or something ;)   ;  For me it quits after creating a black Fullscreen, without any error message.   ;  if it quits after creating a blackscreen you are probably not extracting the zip file to a directory.   