Java Pong Clone

Some of you may know that I am currently at college studying for a BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners in Software Development (what a mouthful). One of the units on the course is “Game Programming” which we recently started and for the first assignment we had the choice of using one of the game skeletons that the tutor provided or creating our own game from scratch. As I feel fairly confident at designing and implementing a program in Java using OOP concepts, I decided to make a clone of the very cool classic arcade game “Pong”.

Creating the game went fairly well with no real hiccups along the way and I am very happy with the outcome. So much so that I have decided to upload the game, source code included, to share it with anyone who cares. The game requires the Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or higher which can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/ and anyone running JRE1.5 should download the version of Pong compiled especially for that release. The pre-compiled game and source code can be found at http://dropshock.org/unit12/Pong although it is worth noting I have not yet had a chance to upload the latest source.

Please let me know what you think and give me some constructive criticism. I feel the game came out really well considering it is the first bit of programming of this type that I have done.