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QPong / QPong-Unity

QPong rewritten in Unity
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Gates as power-ups and resources #7

Open HuangJunye opened 5 years ago

HuangJunye commented 5 years ago

I have an idea to make the gates as resources in the game. For example, X gate is free and unlimited, but H gate needs to be earned. We can start with allowance of 1 H gate. The player earns 1 H gate when the ball is bounce back from paddle (with only X gates) The superposition of paddle can be transferred to the ball. The use of H gate creates multiple ball superpositions which will reduce the chance of catching the balls of the classical paddle. Along this line, perhaps we can add CNOT gate as a more powerful power up, which costs 3 H gates. We need to come up with the effects of CNOT gates.

boland25 commented 5 years ago

hmmm, i like it. will take some figuring out to do it right though. can bring this up for discussion in the group meeting later. see if anyone has any ideas

boland25 commented 5 years ago

@HuangJunye I spoke with some others about how to make the game a better experience. Everyone was in agreement to keep it simple to play. Limit the gates to X & H. Limit the amount of gates you can add to a line to 3. so 3 qubits, and 3 columns. use the rest of the space for some sort of instruction is possible. This might be a good idea for version 1, and worry about the other gates like CNOT in version 2

HuangJunye commented 5 years ago

@boland25 I agree to simply as much as possible. For this game, Y is the same as X, and Z doesn't do anything. CNOT is very similar to H gates too. 3x3 gates is sufficient to make any sorts of circuits that the game needs. I think rotation gates might be cool to add, in addition to X and H gates, but we can add that in version 2.