Four-pong (4-pong) is a twist on the original PONG. One player, but you must control four paddles to keep the ball from going off screen. It looks simple, but it's quite challenging!
I made this as a learning exercise -- keep it simple, but make it challenging and fun.
Best wishes and happy playing!
MorsdenMan
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Hi there!
New PICO-8 programmer and relatively new programmer in general.
I'm making a very simple "pong" game just to get the hang of PICO-8 and Lua, but I can't figure out how to start a game paused. I considered setting a variable "paused" and flip it between 0 and 1 using keyboard input (and then running the update functions when paused = 0), but then it would have to be the Z or X key which I might use later on for something else.
How does everyone else handle this? Or can you point me to a web-resource that explains the best way to handle this?
Thanks for putting up with newbie questions!
Sincerely,
MorsdenMan
