Retro Gaming Hacks, Part 3: Add a Ball and Score to Pong

Now, you need to initialize the score to 0-0, and the number of points for a win to GAME_POINTS:

  // Initialise game data

  game.running           = 1;

  game.ball_speed        = BALL_SPEED;

  game.slope_max_dy      = SLOPE_MAX_DY;

  game.p1_speed          = P1_SPEED;

  game.p2_speed          = P2_SPEED;

  game.num_rects         = 0;

  game.score.p1          = 0;

  game.score.p2          = 0;

  game.score.game_points = GAME_POINTS;

Right after initializing SDL in your code, add:

  // Initialise TTF engine and load a font

  TTF_Init();

  if ((game.font = TTF_OpenFont( MSG_FONT, MSG_SIZE )) == NULL) {



    fprintf( stderr, "Could not open font: %s\n", MSG_FONT );

    return cleanUp( 2 );

    

  } // if (could not load font)

This performs whatever initialization SDL_TTF requires, and then attempts to load the MSG_FONT font and scale it to the proper size. Calling TTF_Init() introduces a slight new wrinkle: you must tear down SDL_TTF before exiting the program. No problem; you can just add a line to the cleanUp() function:

int cleanUp( int err ) {



  TTF_Quit();

  SDL_Quit();



  return err;



} // cleanUp()

Now, all of the remaining action is set in the moveBall() function; specifically inside that else/if block that used to just reset the sprites and regenerate the slope. Let's add scorekeeping code to this block:

  // If the ball hits the left or right wall, score a point for the

  // appropriate player and return the ball to the centre

  else if (game->ball.x < 0 || game->ball.x > (SCREEN_WIDTH - game->ball.w)) {



    SDL_Color white = { 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0 };

      

    SDL_Rect rect_msg      = { SCREEN_WIDTH / 2 - 90, 100, 200, 50 };

    SDL_Rect rect_score_p1 = { 100,                   200, 150, 50 };

    SDL_Rect rect_score_p2 = { SCREEN_WIDTH - 200,    200, 150, 50 };



    SDL_Rect rects[3];

    

    char str_msg[32], str_score_p1[16], str_score_p2[16];

    SDL_Surface *text_msg, *text_score_p1, *text_score_p2;



    if (game->ball.x < 0)

      game->score.p2++;

    else if (game->ball.x > (SCREEN_WIDTH - game->ball.w))

      game->score.p1++;



    // Write scoring messages

    snprintf( str_msg, 32, "Player %d scores!", 

      ((game->ball.x < 0) ? 2 : 1) );



    snprintf( str_score_p1, 16, "Player 1: %d", game->score.p1 );

    snprintf( str_score_p2, 16, "Player 2: %d", game->score.p2 );



    text_msg      = TTF_RenderText_Solid( game->font, str_msg,      

        white );

    text_score_p1 = TTF_RenderText_Solid( game->font, str_score_p1, 

        white );

    text_score_p2 = TTF_RenderText_Solid( game->font, str_score_p2, 

        white );

    

    // Display scoring messages

    rects[0] = rect_msg;

    rects[1] = rect_score_p1;

    rects[2] = rect_score_p2;



    SDL_BlitSurface( text_msg,      NULL, game->screen, 

        &rect_msg      );

    SDL_BlitSurface( text_score_p1, NULL, game->screen, 

        &rect_score_p1 );

    SDL_BlitSurface( text_score_p2, NULL, game->screen, 

        &rect_score_p2 );



    SDL_UpdateRects( game->screen, 3, rects );



    // Display the score for awhile

    SDL_Delay( MSG_TIME );



    // Erase scoring messages

    SDL_FillRect( game->screen, &rect_msg,      game->black );

    SDL_FillRect( game->screen, &rect_score_p1, game->black );

    SDL_FillRect( game->screen, &rect_score_p2, game->black );

    

    SDL_UpdateRects( game->screen, 3, rects );



    // Has someone just won the game?

    if (game->score.p1 == game->score.game_points ||

        game->score.p2 == game->score.game_points) {



      // Display the final score

      snprintf( str_msg, 32, "Player %d wins!",

                ((game->ball.x < 0) ? 2 : 1) );



      snprintf( str_score_p1, 16, "Player 1: %d", game->score.p1 );

      snprintf( str_score_p2, 16, "Player 2: %d", game->score.p2 );



      text_msg      = TTF_RenderText_Solid( game->font, str_msg,      

        white );

      text_score_p1 = TTF_RenderText_Solid( game->font, str_score_p1, 

        white );

      text_score_p2 = TTF_RenderText_Solid( game->font, str_score_p2, 

        white );

    

      rects[0] = rect_msg;

      rects[1] = rect_score_p1;

      rects[2] = rect_score_p2;



      SDL_BlitSurface( text_msg,      NULL, game->screen, 

        &rect_msg      );

      SDL_BlitSurface( text_score_p1, NULL, game->screen, 

        &rect_score_p1 );

      SDL_BlitSurface( text_score_p2, NULL, game->screen, 

        &rect_score_p2 );



      SDL_UpdateRects( game->screen, 3, rects );



      // Pause for awhile

      SDL_Delay( MSG_TIME * 2 );



      // End the game

      game->running = 0;

      return;

      

    } // if (game over!)

The goal of all of this code is simply to display three messages at different locations on the screen. When a player scores, the game displays "Player X scores!" in the top center of the screen, and then each player's new score on his side of the screen. This is accomplished with the help of a slew of local variables: three SDL_Rect structures, one for each message (the in-line initialization may be new to some of you; the first field of the SDL_Rect structure is the x coordinate, followed by the y coordinate, followed by the width, followed by the height); a local array of SDL_Rect structures to feed to our old friend SDL_UpdateRects(); a string for each message; and finally, an SDL_Surface pointer for each.

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