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by lessmilk 1566 days ago
Awesome, thanks for the comment! Yes first the paddle shrink, and then later the ball starts to speed up.
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Excellent. My favorite implementation of Pong is PLBM Pong from the DOS days: you can make the ball crawl at first and speed up gradually until it's all frantic jiggling of the paddles. Much fun've been had in the two-player mode.

https://archive.org/details/PLBMPongOut_1020

You could in fact do likewise: let the player choose the initial parameters and the speed of change. Maybe with preset difficulty tiers if high scores are kept.

Difficulty +1 ; Let the ball split into multiples at some stage