Stage I: Create the Basic Game

In this stage, we will create the basic Wall Ball game in three steps. This basic game won’t offer a lot of challenge to the player, but it will work and it won’t take you long to get there!

In subsequent steps we’ll add some more sophisticated elements.

• Step 0: Create an empty game
  • The Code
  • What’s happening here?
  • Change it around
• Step 1: Bounce a ball around the screen
  • Step 1a: Put a ball on the screen
  • Step 1b: Make the ball move
  • Step 1c: Make the ball bounce off the walls
• Step 2: Make the ball bounce off the bat
  • Step 2a: Put a bat on the screen
  • Step 2b: Control the bat with the mouse
  • Step 2c: Make the ball bounce off the bat
  • Step 2d: The player dies if the ball hits the bottom of the screen
• Step 3: Add bricks for the ball to knock out
  • Step 3a: Put one brick on the screen
  • Step 3b: Put eight bricks across the screen
  • Step 3c: Have the ball knock out bricks until none is left
• Change it all around
  • Have several layers of bricks
  • Give each side wall a bat
  • Have more than one ball
  • Have two bats along the bottom
  • Have different kinds of bricks
  • Switch around the direction of play
  • Have the ball bounce differently from the left or right side of the bat
  • Have the ball bounce according to how far along the bat it hits