Much Pong, very cool game! I really appreciate that you’re telling a story, not many jam games do that. Particularly interesting to me since I’m (gratefully) not in school right now, but can’t imagine how difficult it must be for students during the pandemic.
Gameplay-wise, I really like that you basically combine two games in one; my favorite kinds of games are the ones that surprise you with their mechanics. Very difficult to pull off in a game jam. My only criticism really is that the Pong game felt way too slow, and I actually quit after a few minutes of no one scoring. Reading the comments now, I’m realizing that you can move left and right too, which I had no idea about! Maybe you could telegraph that somehow, whether with in-game text or something more subtle to get the player to realize they can do that. I’m so used to regular Pong I didn’t even consider it :)