The whole game is 5 numbers + 8 lines of physics. Same skeleton powers Breakout, Air Hockey, every paddle game ever made.
Day 2 of my GameFromZero series — 50 playable mini-games in 50 days, all in the browser, all one HTML file.
Today: Pong. The simplest arcade game ever made and the one that teaches the game loop pattern that powers every game after it.
What you're going to learn
The game-loop pattern. Every action game in history is the same shape:
every frame (16ms ≈ 60 FPS):
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