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When you say you want the Ball to bounce off the platform depending on the angle, are you wanting the position on the platform where the ball hits to be taken into account or is simply reversing the balls movement in the y direction what you are after?
If you post what you have done so far I'll be able to take a look at your programming style and give you some helpful advice on how you can do things 

If you have the platform of the same color already set up at the ground postion then you can have the condition that if the ball and this platform touch then...
~ Reduce the lives variable by one
~ Stop the ball moving
~ Place the ball back on the platform ready to start the next life

Hope thats a little more help than the last post 

Edit: Removed some BBcode that didn't work and tidied up the post a little 

Last edited by NeoAtVic (2011-01-11 15:15:16)

If you want the ball to bounce off the paddle, use this script:

<when green flag clicked>
<forever if [touching paddle]
<point in direction 180-direction>
<move 5 steps>
turn pick random -20 - 20 degrees
<end forever if>

Robo_Manic:

Thanks! I tried what you said, but the ball seemed to go through the paddle and then bounce on and off it on to the ground underneath it, but it worked fine when I changed the 180 degrees to 0 degrees. Though it didn't seem to leave the paddle in the opposite direction to when it hit it. Is there any way to get it to do this?

Try using the Scratch sample projects, the one with the Ping Pong game. That will greatly help and clear up some of your questions, DigitTheDandelion. Also, upload your project, so we can see what's going wrong with the project. That way, we can help better.    Good luck on your ping pong game!

Could someone move this to collab? 

this isn't for the collab challenge by the way