ProgrammingChallenge1

Purpose

Welcome to the 1. Programming Challenge. The task in this challenge is to implement a controller which steers a paddle in the game pong. A simple controller can be written in only a few lines of code. The game is quite simple and has no UI other than the console output. This is by design to keep everything simple and easy to understand.

Game Mechanics

The full state of the game including width and height of the playing field is passed as an argument to the Update method of your controller. Based on the information given there you have to decide if you want to move upwards/downwards or stay where you are. All of the fields of the GameState are documented and should be self explanatory. (The GameState even provides functionality to simulate your own game inside the Update method)

Following are the rules of the game:

• The lower left corner of the playing field is coordinate (0,0)
• Positive x-axis goes to the right
• Positive y-axis goes to the top
• The Ball starts in the center of the field and moves towards the right paddle
• The ball bounces of the top and bottom wall in a 90° angle
• If the ball hits the left wall the right player wins
• If the ball hits the right wall the left player wins
• If the ball bounces of a paddle the ball accelerates
• The direction of the ball after it bounces of the paddle is dependent to the relative postion between paddle and ball
  • If the ball hits the center of the paddle the balls direction is horizontal
  • If the ball hits the paddle at the top the balls direction is upwards
  • If the ball hits the paddle at the bottom the balls direction is downwards

How to contribute

1. In the folder Controller create your own folder.
2. In this folder create one (or more) classes which implement the IController interface.
3. A starting point for the implementation can be seen in the file Jan.Reinhardt/NaiveController.cs
4. You can do nearly anything you want in your implementation. Just dont try to hack the game to your advantage via reflection or some other stuff ;-)
5. To test your controller set your controller as the left or right controller (or both) in Program.cs and start the app via dotnet run or F5.
6. To submit your solution just send a PR to the Github Repo.

All participants work with the same repository, so please only commit changes in your own folder. Keep your changes to the Program.cs only locally. Otherwise chaos rises!

var leftController = new Controller.<YourName>.<YourController>();

End of the competition

The competition ends at 16.08.2019

After the competition ends all of the submitted controllers fight against each other in an elimination cup.