Nikpong

For everyone playing this:

I hope you enjoy this small silly project (which is basically pong but different) I made this using pygame toolkit and some help from ChatGPT (I am not that good at coding, but my own skills were good enough to fix mistakes AI made, the code isn't really well-structured, but I think it is not a big deal as long as everything works fine). By the way, Niko's collision with bottom and top part of pancakes is intentional (well it wasn't initially, but it was too funny not to keep). You also get punished if you overuse that, so don't let Niko get stuck there for too long.

Controls: 

W and S to move left player's pancake

Arrow up and down to move right player's pancake

P to pause/unpause

R to reset the score when paused

Press D twice to display/hide speed debug info

Press H twice to display/hide hitboxes

F1 to open README.txt (the file you are reading right now)

A key doesn't work (don't even try it)

and maybe there's something else?

Controls for Xbox controller (I am not sure if it works on others, also support for controllers is partial):

Left stick to move left player's pancake

Right stick to move left player's pancake

Start button to pause/unpause

B button to reset the score when paused

A button works (turns off controller vibrations when pressed multiple times)

Modes:

There are 4 modes:

Classic (it is classic)

Acceleration (turned on by ticking the box on game startup)

Solo (turned on the same way)

True Acceleration mode (still turned on the same way)

Acceleration mode increases speed of Niko as the time passes, it doesn't depend on bounces (after scoring speed is reset to default numbers, then keeps increasing again).

Solo mode allows you to play without the need of another player or without the need of controlling to paddle at once (which is hard). The left paddle is replaced with impenetrable wall. The goal is to get as many points as you can (names are turned off in this mode, instead of them there is "current score" and "high score").

True Acceleration mode increases Niko's speed based on bounces (It doesn't happen EVERY bounce), so it is more similar to classic Pong (the speed resets after scoring). This mode automatically activates improved collisions checkbox.

You can turn on multiple modes at the same time with an exception of having both Acceleration modes active at the same time. It is recommended to use any of Acceleration modes if you play Solo mode.

Modifiers:

For now there are 8 modifiers in total. During game setup you decide which modifiers you want to exclude from appearing (not the other way around!). You can't have multiple of modifiers active at the same time during gameplay. The list of modifiers is in the README.txt file.

Credit:

Made by Egorassy using OneShot (by Nightmargin and more) and Deltarune (by Toby Fox and more) assets. I have my own assets too.

Have a mindblowing experience!