How to Make a Pong Game in Scratch | Tutorial

You can make your own pong game in Scratch! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to make a bouncing ball game with a paddle, score, "Game Over" screen, multiple levels, and more!
Try it out:
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Remix this project (just go to the link and click the green "Remix" button or blue "See Inside" button):
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Thank you so much to @speakvisually for editing this video!
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Project credits:
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[@Zinnea]

What's going to be the object in your game? :D

[@UmxizA]

Hi!!!!!!! 🥰😊😆

[@30-hayaibrahim61]

A ball!

[@UmxizA]

Omg first reply!

[@RickAstley-13]

def star 💫

[@afifyoutubechannel]

Hi

[@ramyadharmalingam5538]

I have a big interest in Python, Java and many more in Coding. This video really helps me to understand the meaning of the codes, and by using these techniques, I have made many more games in Scratch! So, thank you Scratch Team!

[@user-le9vc8jd7r]

I love the way it move and its very smooth please continue making these scratch games

[@bibihussain7108]

WHOS WITH ME RAISE YOUR HANDS TO JOIN THE SCRATCH TEAM

[@ambiliprasannan9326]

Me

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*Raises hand nonstop*

[@seek232]

*raises hand nonstop more 16 billion yeaes*

[@ChristianIvanVargas]

ME

[@MetalJuggalo]

I enjoy watching these scratch tutorials just to learn new coding techniques. It's really cool

[@shaanfeatherstone1329]

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[@spiderbatkids5317]

There is a bug regarding the ball and the paddle, if you try to make a REALLY close save where your paddle passes through it like a knife, it frantically gives you points, because It thinks its hitting the paddle. To fix it, in the ‘If Touching Paddle’ script, replace the Wait 0.5 seconds with a Wait until Not Touching Paddle block.

[@krishlama6167]

Thank you, spiderbatkids5317 (one helluva name).

[@natasharuth1672]

hi

[@superiorflanch6645]

YOU’RE A GODDAMN GENIUS.

[@BlueGamz.Official]

THIS LADY GAVE ME MOST OF THE HELP THAN THE OTHERS, I CREATED THE PONG BALL GAME, IT WAS EASY TO CODE, THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP ZINNEA!!! (i also made a youtube trailer of my pong ball game) i didnt remix. i made my own.

[@sagestarz01]

I searched the whole internet 2 days ago for a tutorial on this and I gave up and made it myself without any tutorials and guess what just pops on my recommended?! Btw the tutorial is really nice!!

[@Twin138956Productions2019]

Man. I used to love playing pong games. Thank you so much of making this tutorial. I would make one someday.

[@penwoodchannel2205]

really?

[@Puffymations]

Nice

[@simplykikiYT]

I’ve made a couple already! I love using scratch to make simple games! It really helped me start! I’m now focusing more on Java, python, HTML and css!

[@random-kz8iy]

Wow

[@sofixfan_limlight]

wow!

[@chikadibiaanyanwu7392]

Scratch has also helped me alot. Now I'm doing Lua,tynker, python and gdevelop

[@deadbrav]

@@chikadibiaanyanwu7392 Awesome!

[@TimeLords910]

impressive i've been only trying to learn HTML&CSS along with JS and not having coding knowledge and recently i learnt cs50 who also recommended using scratch as a baseline for the fundamentals of programming and coding due to it being visual based and JS along with HTML and css being text based

[@prithamsanthosh2133]

Thank you this helped me create my second game

[@Itsvalsboca]

i feel like ever sice i started scratck ive been watching you thank you for the videos

[@inspirving]

That's superb Zinnea, I loved the way you explained and looking forward to more such videos

[@aur_naur_leor]

8:12 You can also use "wait until" then put "touching (item name)" and then add "stop all" to save some time.

[@marcoslemes5643]

same but not in project

[@josephhatter3611]

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[@aur_naur_leor]

@@josephhatter3611 literally what did i do-

[@farahabdulla5069]

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[@marcoslemes5643]

Thanks! This helped a lot!

[@HugoSandstromWebb]

thanks alot just what i was looking for

[@HatmanMusicGEOMETRYDASH]

Thanks for the tutorial this should make a good prototype/demo for my pong game.

[@mrsdarmody]

This is a fantastic tutorial video! We need more tutorials just like this, with all of the detailed explanations for all types of games that can be made using Scratch! Thank you!

[@penwoodchannel2205]

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[@baul2048]

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[@Zinnea]

Also, HUGE thanks to speakvisually for editing this video!!

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[@Tnac9]

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[@cringeman828]

thanks speak

[@sskthebrand]

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[@c0dered111]

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[@AstorSkywalker]

Making games has never been easier, and at the same time also harder for modern games. I remember programming a pong game in the 80s using just Basic programming language. I remember using sin and cos functions and what not. Very exciting times we live in!

[@Skicel]

thank you so much for this tutorial. this helped me a lot :)

[@cherrishaverma1329]

Hi, Zinnea first of all thank you for making these videos. Can you make a game in which characters can talk in the recorded voice which we can record and talk with each other?

[@kxnjalheyy]

no

[@ironore796]

Nice

[@awesomemansextremeadventur2368]

Sounds like that would require some cloud variables…

[@pumpkinpiie486]

hey scratch team, thanks for the tutorials! they help people a lot such as me!

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[@eanddadventures]

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[@l.goodwin8291]

Your tutorials are extremely helpful! Very easy to understand and follow along to create fun and engaging games and more. Thank you so much!

[@penwoodchannel2205]

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[@l.goodwin8291]

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[@eileendick8775]

Here's an idea for a fun and small game called: Ping-finite, a game that resembles Ping Pong, but whenever you score points, you can buy certain upgrades that will help increase the points you get, the amount of balls, the speed of the balls, and eventually you will reach extremely high numbers. After you score at least 10 points, you can progress to new levels, which make it harder to bounce the ball, but give more points. The amount of points the balls give is determined by the amount of speed and balls that are on the field, like this formula, (Speed/10)*Balls=Points. ----- Level 01 0/10 Balls (lvl 1-25) 1/bounce 1 Ball Speed: 10 Difficulty: Easy Level 02 0/10 Balls 1.1/bounce 1 Ball Speed: 11 Difficulty: Easy Level 03 0/10 Balls 1.2/bounce 1 Ball Speed: 12 and so on.. It's probably a good idea for a game. There are also different balls that multiply the points you get and also can be upgraded as well. There are also different upgrades to the paddle, like more paddles, increased speed of the paddles, bigger paddles, and different skills for the paddles.

[@evanlapoint8807]

that's a cool idea!

[@brendaelbourne7873]

Nicd

[@penwoodchannel2205]

make an essay on it lol

[@birdietune]

Balls

[@bluedragooo]

Great idea!

[@2hwh_cat]

Thank you!

[@Simply865]

Such an amazing tutorial!

[@geraldgarwood1558]

You have no idea how valuable your tutorials are. Zoe deserves a HUGE raise. Just sayin'!!!!

[@penwoodchannel2205]

no she doesn't

[@theofficialadz]

I really wanted to make this but I did not know how. Then I found this video and you explained it SO WELL. Thanks

[@planetharddrive6277]

This is one of the best tutorials I've watched. Straight forward

[@penwoodchannel2205]

griffpatch: am i a joke to you?

[@NinjaGamer14487]

Please stop@@penwoodchannel2205

[@GalacticTacoBro]

Thx for the tutorials, finally made one

[@Baburun-Sama]

Except I'm using Vaus as a Paddle in Some Pong games. Vaus: paddle boi from space, comes with arkanoid Ball: source of vaus. no ball causes vaus to crash D.O.H.: is a colored moyai. has lots of hp. fires vaus-crashing bullets Brick: can crash into ball. arkanoid boards Iron Brick: has more hp. arkanoid boards Gold Brick: is not destructible. arkanoid boards Arkanoid: vaus mothership. arkanoid shortcut

[@snokful]

This is incredibly well-explained, thank you. Very skilled approach to teaching.

[@penwoodchannel2205]

bru its LITERALLY only like a few blocks for the ball

[@Sammyisinmytoilet]

@@penwoodchannel22051 stop spamming 2 If you are such a smart ass then why are you here?

[@levu8095]

these tutories help me so much in my game. thank you you guys for making it

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[@levu8095]

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[@gustavogomez7235]

Hi Zoe, im having trouble to see the sprite above top right window when getting the ball or the backdrop. (min 1:05) I can only see the ball (greyed) in the coding window :(

[@toontastic-fb4mb]

This is motion

[@phr00t]

To do the bounce, you can make 2 variables start x and start y. At the start set those variables to the current x and y. Then, change x by 9999 and THEN use the if on edge bounce and then finally go to x (start x) y (start y)

[@penwoodchannel2205]

@leafylovescode (formerly LitttleSittingChick) no the x limit is based on how big the sprite is

[@penwoodchannel2205]

@leafylovescode (formerly LitttleSittingChick) bro ur the one whos wrong

[@ekny9199]

I've been learning to create a lot of games on scratch, thank you!

[@prosnewuser4844]

1ST

[@msfarzanasalman661]

Thanks it helps me a lot

[@unnisasikumar1884]

I love the way you teach

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[@Bigboibremmer]

Great video, my son loves making games rather than sitting on his computer, also learning coding language such as loops, variables and greater than. Thank you.

[@semirveskovic7980]

My son also loves coding on scratch too!.

[@Microbrain321]

I watched this tutorial i made my first game ever! Thx so much!

[@Yoshiemoshee74]

My teacher told us to make a game in scratch and this helped me and my teammate alot thank you!

[@manitajaiswal6700]

Please make a scrolling platformer that would be a great help

[@MOMKUNG999]

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[@anq158]

Thank you so much!!! This helped me soo much i got my grade way higher this actually helped me a lot

[@birenster1]

Coding is cool!

[@awesomemansextremeadventur2368]

What if you added an “inventions” button in the “choose a sprite” menu, and make it so people can share their sprites with other people, including the code in it! It’s fine if you decide not to do this, it’s just a suggestion. Keep up the good work! :D

[@koolkiddYT]

it's called the backpack

[@natashaferguson7586]

wow thanks you helped me a lot

[@hopsu86]

this helped me to make a game where is multiple games! you will earn coins in the minigames and then you can buy things :D Thank you and good work :3

[@lightninggt743]

i love these tutorials i learn so much from them

[@SH-bm7ct]

I love it! Thanks for the tutorial.

[@luna_tic9078]

UNDERRATTED THIS IS SO GOOD TYSM

[@froggyCodingClub]

simple, but always fun

[@forkandknifeofficialate]

That helped me, Thank you so much.

[@nimohorai7280]

This helped me so much on my project for my school

[@johannesbhatt7200]

wonderful instructions

[@funwithadvait4443]

Thankyou soooooo much my game is working

[@creativestudio8009]

Started loving Scratch! Subscribing you! 🤩

[@user-lx8cp7no8v]

this was so helpful

[@ujwaleebiswas9747]

I like pong games a lot and have made at least 5 of them. How often do you post videos? I like them a lot.

[@sanjitashandilya3755]

thank you for the update

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I love your videos and they truly works

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thank you so much!

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Thanks for changing me from a gamer to a projector

[@rykarao8927]

u guys are the best! u always give the right info and like no stuff that isn't usefull

[@GaddyTalks]

ThankYou so much🥰

[@nubiaizabelgarciaaguirre9534]

Thanks for all tutorials, you really do a great job. I had a question especially for this tutorial, I can't program the paddle in a tablet 'cuz don't exist the option "mouse X" inside the "Set X to" as the computer, Could You help me please???

[@UncleRodger123]

tysm, If it wasn't for you i wouldn't be able to know how to use scratch, You are the best

[@user-yf7sj6wk1y]

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This was very helpful! :)

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no

[@Albastar_OP]

THANK YOU!!!!!! You are Great

[@mostafakamal4703]

This is extremely helpful

[@taquilahicks9637]

Hey just wanna ask can you make it so when you press create it will ask you if you want your game to be 3D or 2D?

[@HASHWINISVIIC]

Thank you so much 💜💜

[@kaan_ffm7731]

thanks for the great explanations it really helped

[@golrizdarabi2602]

Thank you so much for the beautiful tutoring. Could you please let me know why do you use 170-190 degrees?Thanks

[@penwoodchannel2205]

BEAUTIFUL??? HOW

[@mehwishimran3674]

Thanks Zinnea for using scatch and making games because of u i have fainaly learnt scratch Thank you so so much

[@aadam382]

you help a lot

[@mekdestesfaye3469]

so good at explaning

[@frenskeeijsermans9061]

Thanks for this! I'm trying to recreate a pong-like game, but I want the version to player vs pc, where the pc paddle follows the ball's y (I play left to right), without moving on the x-plane. Then changing the pc's paddle's speed will increase the difficulty of actually scoring, as it starts slower than the ball initially, but with each point scored, it creeps closer to the ball's vertical speed.. Do you or does anyone helse have any tips on how to follow the ball, with only allowing movement on a single axis? ^^ Thanks!

[@BrUhhh2]

In sensing, there is a block that looks like "[backdrop] of (stage)" you can change that to "[y position] of (ball)"

[@kiwi0373]

this had very clear instructions i recommend everyone to listen to this person lol

[@teodorakix]

Thanks it helped me soooooooooo Much

[@TikaForTeacups]

Thanks for making many tutorials zinnea :)

[@SerowyKról-CheeseKing]

After I watched this video, i feel like i know everyting, thank you so much, you helped me so dang it much

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Thanks for the video

[@paaci.vfiist]

i used to scratch a year ago but now i dont know so i watch ur videos to get tips!

[@user-vy8pl3gb4s]

It helps me so much Thank you so much

[@geekPlayground]

Thanks for this amazing video! This reminds me of Arkanoid.

[@mattyB1984]

Tbh I sometimes just make things in scratch and watch her but not even doing the scratch thing she is teaching. I just like listening to her tutorials 😌

[@PoisonIvory088]

Same

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thanks for this video scratch team

[@alexasegano8494]

It Makes me feel So happy :D

[@Somethingaboutsparrows]

this was extremely helpful

[@VinhNguyen-dj7qv]

I love this game best. I like scratch. Thanks to Teacher Zinnea for the tutorials.

[@Emily_small909]

thank you for this vid, I'm gonna get a really good grade now, the video my teacher wanted us to watch wasn't as understandable (didn't explain how/why it works like that and didn't get as far as you did). :>

[@Miyu.ki2263]

I'm a high student with a assignment about making a game using Scratch, I swear this video helped me sooooo much and the explanation was also really clear and easy to understand and it was also simple and yet a interesting game to play and amke and again thank you sooooo much !!!!!😁😊

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wow thats awesome i really did it

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Thanks, that really helped me!

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wow this helped me a lot!!! Ty!!!

[@aviator359]

Pls answer this, when I try uploading an audio from youtube sometimes it works but most of the time it doesn't. when i press "open", it might show a quick flash of importing but the video does not show.