PONGS

Play Online (desktop only)

Description

Bip! Bip! Bip! Boop! Everyone loves PONG! So everyone loves thirty six PONGS even more! Work those learning muscles with EDUTAINMENT PONG! Get serious with SERIOUS PONG! Shoot a laser gun in LASER PONG! Play PONG in PONG PONG! And many more!

Originally released on 11 April 2012, PONGS was written in ActionScript 3 using FlashBuilder 4.5 and the excellent Flixel library.

This version has been ported to the also excellent Phaser 3 library for JavaScript.

You may not be surprised to hear that PONGS is based on Atari’s PONG. Sound effects were made in bfxr. The font in PONGS is Commodore 64 Pixelized by Devin Cook. The references in PONGS are mostly pretty obvious, but if you haven’t heard of Shit Snake by Draknek or B.U.T.T.O.N. by Die Gute Fabrik, then now you have!

Press

PONGS was featured on Kill Screen, Free Indie Games, The Verge, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and Edge Online. It has also been discussed in German on NEGATIV and Superlevel! Lorenzo Pilia made an awesome controller for PONGS and you can watch a video of it! PONGS has been exhibited many times.

Documentation

• Code repository (includes the new JavaScript source code as well as the Flash Builder version from 2011)
• Journal (blog posts written while I was making the original PONGS)
• Download the original .swf file of PONGS from the repository if you want

License

PONGS is an open source game licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. You can obtain the source code from its code repository on GitHub.