Go Pong

The original pong game made with Go.

How to play

1. Play with up and down arrows.
2. To start new round press Space.
3. whoever gets the first 5 pints wins.
4. A perfect AI (It never loses 😂).

Requirements

• SDL2

Below is some commands that can be used to install the required packages in some Linux distributions. Some older versions of the distributions such as Ubuntu 13.10 may also be used but it may miss an optional package such as libsdl2-ttf-dev on Ubuntu 13.10's case which is available in Ubuntu 14.04.

On Ubuntu 14.04 and above, type:
apt install libsdl2{,-image,-mixer,-ttf,-gfx}-dev

On Fedora 25 and above, type:
yum install SDL2{,_image,_mixer,_ttf,_gfx}-devel

On Arch Linux, type:
pacman -S sdl2{,_image,_mixer,_ttf,_gfx}

On Gentoo, type:
emerge -av libsdl2 sdl2-{image,mixer,ttf,gfx}

On macOS, install SDL2 via Homebrew like so:
brew install sdl2{,_image,_mixer,_ttf,_gfx} pkg-config

On Windows,

1. Install mingw-w64 from Mingw-builds
   • Destination Folder: Select a folder that your Windows user owns
2. Install SDL2 http://libsdl.org/download-2.0.php
   • Extract the SDL2 folder from the archive using a tool like 7zip
   • Inside the folder, copy the i686-w64-mingw32 and/or x86_64-w64-mingw32 depending on the architecture you chose into your mingw-w64 folder e.g. C:\Program Files\mingw-w64\x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1\mingw64
3. Setup Path environment variable
   • Put your mingw-w64 binaries location into your system Path environment variable. e.g. C:\Program Files\mingw-w64\x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1\mingw64\bin and C:\Program Files\mingw-w64\x86_64-6.3.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1\mingw64\x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin

Installation and Running the game locally

1. Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/mdfaizan7/go-pong.git

2. cd into the folder

cd go-pong

3. Run the game

go run main.go