The Game:
Features:
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Paddle:
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Mouse to move,
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left click to launch,
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The Paddle can also tilt:
- A to tilt left,
- D to tilt Right
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The Paddle also has two other, breakable “Second-Chance” Paddles below and either side of it. They can sustain 11 hits before being destroyed.
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Additional Balls:
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From Level 4, there will be at least one additional ball in the play area.
- ALL balls can break bricks (including your “Second-Chance” Paddles).
- ALL balls can collide with other balls.
- This can seriously ruin your day if an Additional Ball knocks your ball out of play, but it can also be useful if it bunts your ball out of danger.
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ONLY the orange ball needs to stay in play - the rest can be dropped if managing them is too stressful (Level 4 was designed specifically to make this apparent).
- For example; the last two levels have six Additional Balls - Seven total. This means:
1.More balls to babysit (
),
2.More balls to interfere with your ball (),
3.More balls to destroy your “Second-Chance” Paddles (), AND
4.More balls to help you destroy the bricks (
).
Ultimately, you need to decide if you want to risk more balls to make the round end quicker, or let some balls go so you can focus on the other balls.
- For example; the last two levels have six Additional Balls - Seven total. This means:
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Bricks:
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All Bricks (including your “Second-Chance” Paddles) display signs of increasing degradation (unless they’re destroyed in one hit) by:
- Looking more damaged,
- Losing their colour, AND
- Having little shards of themselves fly off*,
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Upon destruction, the brick shatters into little shards*, with your ball soaring through the pieces like a majestic eagle +,
** Please note that the shards that fly off the bricks are actually predetermined parts of the brick as part of a sprite sheet and NOT generated automagically at runtime.*
+ Obviously, this excludes your “Second-Chance” Paddles, as eagles are incapable of majestically burrowing their way into the ground. 