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The ball's density also varies, but players don't learn the value until after choosing their raquets. The infamous 'bowling ball table tennis' region of the parameter space often leads to equipment damage.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Would be a great video game haha

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Especially in VR

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, I haven't worked with Godot's 3D system yet, this seems like as good an excuse as any.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better hurry, there will probably be 1000 of these by the end of the week 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Meh they can have it then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a bit like rocket league with mutator settings

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Might actually watch this one if it were a thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really, no links to the actual game? Don't tell me that no one bothered to make this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All you need is a series of rackets, balls, nets, tables of various sizes, and a giant court that you can paint onto and you can do it was any rng generator.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My favorite game, paracetamol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Really missed out on small ball big net badminton play.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What is a bowling ball racket anyway?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are we confined to only finite positive values? If so, are there upper or lower limits? I’m kinda curious about how the game would go with a ball smaller than a spec of dust. Or how about a court twice the size of the observable universe?

Densities can get very interesting too if the ball collapses under its own mass into a singularity? Or how about a ball with neutron star density without the gravity to push it together? This is getting into the what if territory again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

neutron star ball