50 years of video games… Let’s circle back to the basics.

What’s this?

Bogus Pong is a Pong that goes awry in a different way at every round, and you don’t always know how… Can you beat your friends (or your machine) with added gravity? What about a smaller paddle? Or 50 balls flying around the screen? Well, can you??

Features

  • Over 42 totally intended bugs!!
  • Unlockable bugs!!!
  • Combinable bugs!!!
  • Moddable: code your own bugs!!!
  • Breakable: carefully select bugs to break the game!!!
  • Play with up to 3 friends!!!

Controls

Keyboard

  • F11 to quickly toggle fullscreen
  • Use W and S for Player 1 (on the left)
  • Up and Down for Player 2 (on the right)
  • I and O for Player 3 (on the top)
  • V and B for Player 4 (you guessed it, they’re on the bottom)
  • Backspace to disable a player (give control back to CPU, then hide their paddle) from 4 to 1 or to go back in the menus
  • Esc to pause the game or go back
  • P to pause the game
  • Enter/Space to select a menu item.

(Also works on AZERTY, Dvorak, bépo… just pretend you’re on QWERTY)

Controller

Controller 1 is Player 1 and so on.

  • Use the left joystick or the D-pad to play and navigate the menus.
  • Start to pause the game
  • Select/Back to be disabled
  • A to select a menu item
  • B to go back.

Credits

A game by Hanntac, with Lariat’s music and fonts from Velvetyne (Outward and VG5000) — also be aware that Pong is a hugely successful video game by Atari, not me, I don’t have any rights on it, please don’t sue me

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Release date Feb 21, 2022
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorHanntac
GenreAction
Made withGodot, GIMP
Tags2D, Arcade, Local multiplayer, party-game, Retro, Singleplayer
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Xbox controller, Playstation controller
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count1 - 4

Download

Download
Linux 87 MB
Version 1.0.0 Feb 21, 2022
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Windows 86 MB
Version 1.0.0 Feb 21, 2022
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MacOS 98 MB
Version 1.0.0 Feb 21, 2022
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Example Mods 23 MB
Version 1.0.0 Feb 21, 2022
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Soundtrack 71 MB

Install instructions

You must keep the .pck file next to the executable to play the game, except for MacOS.

Modding instructions

Use Godot v3.4.2!

See the example mods archive below for an API overview. Even if you don’t want to mod the game, do download it as it contains ready-to-install mods with new bugs and features not included in the base game!

Development log

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