Programming Puzzles: Python Edition

Task

Create a basic two player ping pong game using the pygame library. The game should have two paddles, one ball and implement a scoring system.

Note: challenges like this are most fun when letting the imagination run wild, so I’ve left the description purposely vague. There are no right or wrong answers here, as long as the final program represents some form of ping pong!

Bonus challenges:

• Allow the players to choose what colour they want the background, ball and paddles to be (bonus-bonus: implement a visual colour picker).
• Make the ball change colour every second.
• Allow an arbitrary number of balls to be in play at once.

Hint: the bonus challenges are easier to implement using object oriented programming (...think about having multiple ...