Plasma pong

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-05-02 02:43am

Pong using fluid dynamics, enjoy

Be warned, enjoy atleast a semi modern PC before playing this.

Max lvl here is 15.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-05-02 03:31am

The coolest thing is when you switch the background music. Some songs kick ass when sped up.

HIgh score:
No cheat: 16
With cheat: 38

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-05-02 03:35am

What cheats are you using? I'm editing the parameter file just for kicks, but not counting my scores there.

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2006-05-02 03:39am

lvl 23

scratch that, level 32, without cheating

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-05-02 04:00am

Ace Pace wrote:What cheats are you using? I'm editing the parameter file just for kicks, but not counting my scores there.

Press T and it brings up a line showing the path of the ball. Useful for first timers to see the effects of the plasma.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-05-02 04:07am

2000AD wrote:
Ace Pace wrote:What cheats are you using? I'm editing the parameter file just for kicks, but not counting my scores there.
Press T and it brings up a line showing the path of the ball. Useful for first timers to see the effects of the plasma.

Weird, I got a far lower score with that on. Confused me.

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2006-05-02 04:08am

muahahaha! level 42!

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2006-05-02 04:44am

I'm in love, but my computer, dunce that it is, is worthless.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2006-05-02 09:01am

I've twice got 37. I guess that's where I top out.

Old Peculier · Post by **Old Peculier** » 2006-05-02 12:30pm

29 so far. (no cheats)

Better wait until I've written out some more notes before I try again.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2006-05-03 04:22pm

68, no cheats, bitches

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-05-03 07:42pm

Darth Sephiroth · Post by **Darth Sephiroth** » 2006-05-03 07:43pm

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2006-05-04 11:45pm

Grab the ball, take it to the bottom of the screen, then rapidly release it and suck it back in repeatedly and quickly. The shockwaves this creates will get all the fluid in the arena rapidly moving toward the upper right corner, as your opponent invariably hovers directly in front of you, spewing out plasma.

Once the flow is going your way, release the ball for good and immediately hold the left button to put a flow of your own plasma behind it. Sometimes a quirk of the currents will slow it down just a little, or the AI will wisely begin suction even before getting into position, either of which is enough to let it make the save. But quite often you'll score.

Just keep an eye on the flow, sometimes the ball will slip out of that rapid forward current and get sucked into the equally rapid return coming in along the sides, and you'll kill yourself.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2006-05-05 10:23pm

The Shaithis Cheese Method is pretty cool, but I enjoy playing it with ONLY the plasma blower (left click) function. Makes a much harder game with some epic battles. I can only get to ~20 playing this way.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-05-05 10:59pm

Sriad wrote:The Shaithis Cheese Method is pretty cool, but I enjoy playing it with ONLY the plasma blower (left click) function. Makes a much harder game with some epic battles. I can only get to ~20 playing this way.

22 here too

The ball conspires against me. Fucker charges my paddle way harder than it does the AI at the random direction in the start. Even a full blast into it while hitting it with the paddle and it bounces/rolls off into my side anyhow.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2006-05-06 04:25am

Just got up to 116.

Also, yes, the ball often zooms right towards your side at the start of a round. You just have to be quick, and remember that it most often (but not always) heads for the top.

On the other hand, if it remains relatively stationary, having left-click held down as the round begins can often blow it past the enemy paddle before it knows what hit it.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2006-05-07 08:04pm

It seems like the random direction is just a hold over from currents left in the last level. When I use the corner shockwave method (gotten to ~80 with that) it'll often blast up to the computer's corner immediately 2 or 3 levels in a row.

When you just use the blower it really is random though.

Starting with the plasma blower on leads to a cool anime-y effect when your stream and the computer's collide with the ball in the center, mounting pressures briefly balanced...

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2006-05-10 08:20pm

Version 1.2 has been released, which has a number of improvements and buxfixes.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2006-05-11 03:26pm

Mad wrote:Version 1.2 has been released, which has a number of improvements and buxfixes.

I really like 1.2. Everydamnthing is customizable in a nice GUI (I changed the music to shift up by about 1/3 step every level instead of 1/2), but a lot of the changes took some getting used to. Especially the charger for the shockwave.

Gotten to level 30 so far.