The deceptively simple game where you hit a ball across a net on top of a table. Where the goal is to hit it in such a way that the other player misses. Just how you like it on Wii Sports. Uses the Godot engine for graphics and game logic. Uses an Android app to control the paddle via UDP networking.
There are 3 types of UDP packets that are sent to the server:
- player_joined: tells the server when a player has joined and signals to the server that, if there's a slot available, to let the player play. The server should send a packet back indicating the client's player number. If playing in single-player mode, there would only be a single player, and thus not much need to echo the client's player number.
- player_left: tells the server when a player has left and signals to the server to free up a slot to allow another player a chance to play and connect.
- paddle_info: tells the server the precise orientation of their device, along with the acceleration that the device is experiencing. The server then processes this and transforms the paddles accordingly. Because the actual position of the paddle cannot be calculated in 3D space (we will need at least 3 photo-receptors for that), the paddle hits the ball based on the acceleration of the device (if the device accelerates to the side quickly, we interpret that as an attempt to hit the ball an execute a swing proportional to the acceleration).