README.md

4-Pong Arena

Game Concept

4-Pong Arena is a local multiplayer arcade game for up to 4 players in the same vein as classics such as Pong, but with twice the pads, multiple times the balls in play and a hundred times the fun. Users can play against other players, and computer-controlled pads with AI behaviour, in frantic Pong matches with random ball spawns, electric scenarios and fist-pumping music to acompany it all.

But that's not all. Every map can be adjusted with different obstacles such as bouncers in the middle of the map, and a force field of varying sizes that powers-up any ball that goes inside with more speed, to make it harder for whomever is on the other side of the field.

About the game

4-Pong Arena is a game made for the 'Proyecto III' subject as part of the bachelor's degree in Video Game Design and Development from the 'Universidad Complutense de Madrid', year 2019-2020.

This game has been created from scratch in just a three month span using Gaia(c) as the engine, in combination with another game: Ultimate Ghost Punch. You can download 4-Pong Arena and watch it's gameplay trailer from the official websiteof the game.

Controls

• KEYBOARD AND MOUSE

  • MOVEMENT: A / D | W / S depending on orientation.

• CONTROLLER

  • MOVEMENT: LEFT JOYSTICK

Acknowledgments

MUSIC: The music of 4-Pong Arena was created by other artists outside of Spicy Noodles(c) with free use licenses:

• Menu_loop: Free Synthwave loop 24bit-48Khz

  • License: Creative Commons

• Bloody_Mary:

  • Bloody Mary by Electronic Senses
  • Music promoted by Free-Stock-Music
  • Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

• Controversia:

  • Controversia by Electronic Senses
  • Music promoted by Free-Stock-Music
  • Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

• Defense_Matrix:

  • Defense Matrix by Vyra
  • Music promoted by Free-Stock-Music
  • Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

• Chaos:

  • Above All The Chaos by TeknoAXE
  • Music promoted by Free-Stock-Music
  • Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

SOUND EFFECTS: Some of the sound effects were created using the following free-of-use samples:

• Ball_bounce & Ball_bounce_hard: https://freesound.org/people/GameAudio/sounds/220178/
• Ball_launch: https://freesound.org/people/LordForklift/sounds/448394/
• Damage: https://freesound.org/people/EVRetro/sounds/501104/
• Death: https://freesound.org/people/Raclure/sounds/483598/
• Impulse: https://freesound.org/people/GameAudio/sounds/220178/
• Impulse_02: https://freesound.org/people/GameAudio/sounds/220162/
• Wall_Bounce: https://freesound.org/people/BranRainey/sounds/108737/
• Force_Bounce_02: https://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/96632/
• Back_Button: https://freesound.org/people/bigmanjoe/sounds/348031/
• Button_Click: https://freesound.org/people/NenadSimic/sounds/171697/
• Focus_Change: https://freesound.org/people/GameAudio/sounds/220190/
• Wrong_Button: https://freesound.org/people/martinator87/downloaded_sounds/

License

4-Pong Arena has been designed and created by Spicy Noodles(c), all rights reserved.