I built Pong from scratch in LÖVE and Lua (a two part series)

I wrote a two part series on building Pong from scratch in LÖVE and Lua. If you’ve never made a game before, I think it’s a nice place to start.

Part one is the whole game in two short files: the loop, delta time,
collision, scoring, a title screen, a…


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Minor Keith

I wrote a two part series on building Pong from scratch in LÖVE and Lua. If you've never made a game before, I think it's a nice place to start.

Part one is the whole game in two short files: the loop, delta time,
collision, scoring, a title screen, and sound generated in code so there are no audio files to ship.

Part two adds a one player mode by writing a computer opponent.

Part 1: https://peculiarengineer.com/blog/make-pong-with-love2d-and-lua/
Part 2: https://peculiarengineer.com/blog/pong-computer-opponent-love2d-lua/


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Minor Keith


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