Word Pong | Devpost

Inspiration

All of us had recently been hooked onto the game Wordle and decided we wanted to do some sort of word game. And after brainstorming and taking a look at some basic webpage games, we were reminded of the ultimate game Pong. We took these two ideas Wordle and Pong, and combined them together to create Word Pong!

What it does

Word Pong is a simple game that challenges your brain in a fun way. Think of the pong setup but instead of hitting the ball back with your paddle you have to quickly type a word to move your paddle! You are given a random letter and prompted to type a 4-8 letter word with the start of that letter. You have 4 sections of which your paddle can move and have to decide quickly which section you want to move your paddle to! Word Pong is an intense quick-thinking game that requires lots of wits and skills.

How we built it

We used HTML and Javascript on Visual Studio Code to develop our game.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into many challenges... For instance, the physics of how to move the pong ball, some basic code developing errors, lack of experience with both HTML and Javascript, a rough planning start, creating a large array to check if the entered word is valid, etc.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Making the game. At first, we thought it would be nearly impossible to create a pong game let alone incorporate words into it but we did it! And we're proud that we were able to figure out the physics of the ball and work through dumb compiling errors.

What we learned

We learned that math can be useful when creating games, and things we learn at school may not in fact be useless. We also furthered our knowledge in javascript and HTML.