Animated Sprites and Collisions: A Game Pong

Abstract

The game components that animated continuously and independently are termed as sprites in the game field. The animated sprits collide each other and collide with other objects. These collisions trigger embedded collision detection and collision handlers for dynamically changing the game states and output scenes. The collision detection and collision handlers actually are collision-event-update-repaint chains, which have the similar functions as the action-event-update-repaint chains. The player of the game just follows the game rules to control the animated sprites in order to avoid the collisions or to engage the collisions. The simple video game Pong is our first game example to start the introduction of sprites and their collisions for illustrating these new concepts and new techniques.