Hey everyone Happy New Year!
To celebrate please check out my block breaker project. I’m eager to get feedback from the community here before I show the game to my friends and family.
There are still a few problems that need fixing (e.g. getting rid of the Quit button and getting the screen size right) but I think the look and the game play is done! All assets except the music and the fonts were made by yours truly.
http://gamebucket.io/game/ea67d2ff-6a2a-433d-a668-ada11fc13baa
P.S. I had a friend play test this version of the game and got some great feedback. I wanted to stress to everyone how gratifying and educational (particularly from a game design perspective) the experience was - I recommend doing it with all your games.
I will update this thread at some point with lessons learned if anyone is interested. 
~Thom
I really like the sprites you made for the blocks, fits very well with the feel of the game. One thing i noticed though was sometimes when launching the ball from the paddle, it would launch at a much higher velocity than normally. Not sure what could cause this, and it wasn’t frequent enough to find a pattern to it.
Another thing I noticed was there seem to be some discrepency between the game window when not in full screen and when in full screen. For instance when viewing the credits screen, you cannot see the back button in the top left corner if not in full screen. You can click in the general area it is supposed to be in and it’ll go back, but the text/button isn’t visible.
The difference between full screen and not full screen also affect the game when playing. When in full screen it works fine, but when not full screened, it seems the walls for the game area are not at the edge of the screen, they are more inwards.
I made the gif below to show what i’m talking about, hopefully it makes sense.
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Thanks for the feedback!
Yes, I noticed the velocity issue too. Not sure whats causing it, maybe I need to go back and check I didn’t make a mistake in the code.
Also, good catch on the back button! The text is there but has no font, haha. A valuable lesson to be careful when switching fonts!!
~T
