Weekly post No.1

My proposal for the app is very simple, create a pong app that runs on android. And while there are probably a billion slightly different versions of the app on the google play store, I still think that it will be a great exercise in the world of game design. Which will be fitting as pong was originally conceived as a way to introduce someone into the world of game design. I plan to make the game as fully featured as the original version of pong was, with sound effects, an artificial intelligence, a scoring system, and if I have time, an optional two player mode. To do this I will be using a free online tool called MIT App Inventor. It uses a graphical user interface for ease of use while still being a very powerful tool. So far I have gotten part of the user interface made up, with all the buttons in place, the outline for the game board and the scoring numbers in place. Since these were only simple user interface components, with not many complex variables and simple blocks of code leave not much room for error and the subsequent bugs that come with it. But as I start adding in things like the ball and the two player icons, bugs will become a much bigger issue in the future. But the biggest challenge that I will probably face is a proper Artificial intelligence for the computer player, as it is something I have never done before. But by next week I plan to have the basic up and down movement of the human player working.

- A screenshot of the game board with the code with all the code necessary.