I like the Pong idea. Paulie, that's what I did! I made Pong. Then I added extra balls, basic enemy intelligence, and simple powerups. I even made it 2-player, and me and my friends had a blast!
By the way, everyone, I'm trying to get the hang of a sidescroller's differences by making one now, and I have to ask:
Is it more efficient/better to do sidescroller collisions via an array or block\x and such. Currently I do the latter, because I can think of no way to do the former without moving 50 pixels at a time (my blocks are 50 x 50). Scratch that; an idea is forming, but can someone tell me (in words, not code), how to do an array check just to see if I'm on the right track?
By the way, everyone, I'm trying to get the hang of a sidescroller's differences by making one now, and I have to ask:
Is it more efficient/better to do sidescroller collisions via an array or block\x and such. Currently I do the latter, because I can think of no way to do the former without moving 50 pixels at a time (my blocks are 50 x 50). Scratch that; an idea is forming, but can someone tell me (in words, not code), how to do an array check just to see if I'm on the right track?