Features for Assessment

Notable Assessment Features

• Ball resets with a countdown to kick-off, appearing on the opposite side of the screen which the ball will move towards.
• Match logic and game logic, 5 points wins a match, first player to win 3 matches wins the game.
• Score counter has a sound effect when scores are incremented, which is delayed to come just after the goal sound and synced with the text UI update.
• AI created for 1 player mode, following the y component of the ball.
• 2 player mode available
• Original sound effects added for scoreboard updates, the headline exclamations, the countdown to serve, menu selections, goals and wall/paddle bounces. The wall and paddle bounces randomly fluctuate in pitch to make the bounce sound more interesting and less stagnant.
• Original soundtrack, the soundtrack differs between the start menu and the game.
• Ball slowly increases speed, to a maximum of 30.
• The paddles use an Ellipse collider component shaped so that the collision still looks normal but the ball bounces off the corners based where on the ellipse curve it hits.
• Pause menu which freezes gameplay and allows the user to resume gameplay, return to menu, or quit the game. 
• At the end of the game, the player is returned to the start menu, where they can then select a new game.
• Animations for paddle collisions
• A headline/announcer text that appears at the bottom of the screen, then moves to the scoreboard ("match 1", "player 1 wins", "CPU wins" etc.). 

Features for future:

• Screen shake on goal: I played around with this but didn't feel that it was effective in the way that i had originally thought. More time will be required for me to polish that up.
• Goal Animation: text or explosion, would love to figure this out sometime. Whenever I played with it, everything felt too crowded, would be really cool but again, need more time to do this effectively!