Rules: Change Comes from Within

CHAPTER 2 a missed ball and the bip of a bounce off a paddle have a wonderful certainty to them.You are in control of precisely one simple action (moving your paddle) to influence the course of play.That's it.In fact, Pong's closed form can make it seem monolithic and unchangeable, as though it has sprung fully formed from the ether.But in the end, underneath the hood, Pong's rules are made of code.And code can be rewritten.* Consider a game of Pong in which the ball and divider are invisible.Now we have Blind Pong, and nothing is quite the same (see figure 2.2).You can still see the paddles and the scores, and you can still hear the familiar sound effects, but you must learn to play anew.You must make deductions based on the