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Space Pong

A two-player Pong-style game built in Blender during Summer 2015, with a space-themed arena and keyboard controls for playing against a friend or yourself.

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Overview

Space Pong is a small Blender Game Engine project from Summer 2015. It takes the familiar back-and-forth rhythm of Pong and puts it inside a space-themed Blender scene, turning the .blend file itself into the playable artifact.

The video above is a demonstration of the original game running in Blender. It shows the core loop: two paddles, a moving ball, and local two-player controls designed so both players can sit at one keyboard. It can also be played solo by controlling both sides yourself.

Controls

  • Left player: W, A, S, D
  • Right player: I, J, K, L

Run It Yourself

The playable file is archived in the public Space Pong GitHub repo. Because this was built for the old Blender Game Engine, it should be opened with Blender 2.7x rather than a modern Blender release.

  1. Download Blender 2.7x from the official Blender release archive.
  2. Download Space Pong.blend.
  3. Open Space Pong.blend using Blender 2.7x.
  4. Click start/run in Blender to launch the game.

Have fun playing against your friends, or against yourself.