- Fixed: Strict sample size was counting destroyed bricks, now count hits as explained in the help
- Fixed: passive_income was resetting your combo if you moved around the end of the last level
- Fixed: a high score issues was systematically erasing the high score in the web version, i added a migration to load the best score for your top games to recover the high score.
- QOL: option to display gained combo as onscreen text
- QOL: publish an apk to itch.io with every build
- Internal: added a simple game data migration system
- [colin] mirror puck - a mirrored puck at the top of the screen follows as you move the bottom puck. it helps with keeping combos up and preventing the ball from touching the ceiling. it could appear as a hollow puck so as to not draw too much attention from the main bottom puck.
- [colin] Combos extrêmes: lvl2 pour tous les combos, qui fait que le combo rapporte double ou triple, mais si sur un niveau la condition n'est pas respectée alors le perk ne donne plus de combo bonus pour ce niveau.
- [colin] Mytosis - les blocs bombe n'explosent pas mais relâchent une nouvelle balle à la place (clashes with "shocks" and "sapper")
- [colin] Juggle - au début du niveau, chaque balle est lancée l'une après au lieu de toutes à la fois (needs some work)
- [colin]Ball of Greed — the ball can collect coins (might be worth dividing into levels: lvl 1, can collect coins only after two bounces on bricks or walls. lvl 2, can collect after 1 bounce. lvl 3, can collect coins anytime)(or change the ball collection radius as the level grows)
- [colin] close quarters - balle attirée par tous les blocs/par un bloc aléatoire, actif à portée de bloc (+1bloc au lvlup)/proportionnel à une force (+puissance au lvlup)…
- [colin] plusieurs perks qui déclenchent des effets quand une balle est perdue. par ex: +3 combo à chaque balle perdue, 5 blocs transformés en bombe, balle et coins ralentis, blocs régénérés…
- [colin] faster style - augmente le combo en fonction de la vitesse de la balle
- colored coins only (coins should be of the color of the ball to count, otherwise what ? i'd rather avoid negative points)
- coins avoid ball of different color (pointless)
- [colin] wormhole - the puck sometimes don't bounce the ball back up but teleports it to the top of the screen as if it fell through from bottom to top. higher levels reduce the times it takes to reload that effect (not sure how that to word that in 1 setence)
- [colin] Mental charge - the puck is divided into two smaller pucks, then 3 smaller ones at lvl 2 : what's the point ?
- [colin] sturdy ball - does more damage to bricks, to conter sturdy bricks :that's pierce now
- [colin] plot - plot the ball's trajectory as you position your puck : too hard when you add other perks
- [colin] piggy bank - bricks absorb coins that fall onto it, and release them back as they are broken, with added value : equivalent to Asceticism
- [colin] ball coins - coins share the same physics as coins and bounce on walls and bricks : really hard to balance with speeds and all
- non brick-shaped bricks, tilted bricks,moving blocks : very difficult because of engine optimisations
- 3 random perks immediately, or maybe "all level get twice as many upgrades, but they are applied randomly, and you aren't told which ones you have."
- coins repulse coins, could get really laggy ?
- russian roulette: 5/6 chances to get a free upgrade, 1/6 chance of game over. Not really fun
- [colin] bigger ball - self-explanatory, or is it ? what's the point ? physics would break now if ball bigger than bricks
- [colin] smaller ball - doable, but why
- [colin] earthquake - when the puck hits any side of the screen with velocity, the screen shakes and a brick explodes/falls from the level. alternatively, any brick you catch with the puck gives you the coins at the current combo rate. each level lowers the amount of hits before a brick falls. Problem : no limit on how often you can slam the puck around
- missile goes when you catch coin
- missile goes when you break a brick
- [colin] Batteries - lvl1: recharge les pouvoirs du puck quand la balle touche le haut de l'écran (1 fois par lancer, se recharge en touchant le puck). lvl2: également après voir détruit 6 blocs. lvl3: également quand elle touche les bords de l'écran : i'll probably just let the second puck replace this
- store much more details about run (level by level) as numbers only (instead of json that gets big false)
- [colin] hitman - hit the marked brick for +5 combo. each level increases the combo you get for it.
- [colin] sweet spot - place your puck directly below a moving spot at the top of the level to increase your combo
- [colin] reward the player with more choices/perks for breaking a brick while having reached an increasing combo thresholds. 5 combo, then 10, then 20, then 40 etc… once a threshold is reached you aren't rewarded for that threshold again until you start a rew run
- mobile option: relative movement of the touch would be amplified and added to the puck
- mobile option: don't pause on mobile when lifting finger
- translate fastlane presentation texts to french
- convert captures to mp4 unsing ffmpeg wasm because reddit refuses webm files
- disable zooming (for ios double tap)
- Waterline under the puck, coins slow down a lot, reflections
I pulled many background patterns from https://pattern.monster/
I wanted an APK to start in fullscreen and be able to list it on fdroid and the play store. I started with an empty view and went to work trimming it down, with the help of that tutorial : https://github.com/fractalwrench/ApkGolf/blob/master/blog/BLOG_POST.md
Colin (obigre) brought a lot of fantastic ideas to the game, here's his website (in French) : https://colin-crapahute.bearblog.dev/
Tõnu Rääk made a Tiermaker template to share your favorite perk choices : https://tiermaker.com/create/breakout-71-perks-18086724
# Breakout games suggestions
Here are a few interesting games in the breakout genre :
Breakout 71 can be installed and work offline in many ways:
- Download an index.html file from [itch.io](https://renanlecaro.itch.io/breakout71) to play offline on your computer (latest version always)
- Download the latest apk from [itch.io](https://renanlecaro.itch.io/breakout71) to play offline on your android phone (latest version always)
- Add [the app](https://breakout.lecaro.me/) to your home screen on android, and it should play even when offline thanks to the service workers (latest version always)
- Install the latest version from the play store : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.lecaro.breakout (updated from time to time)
- Install the latest version from Fdroid : https://f-droid.org/packages/me.lecaro.breakout/ (updated very rarely because of the updates publication lag)
- Download the index.html file or apk from my archive server : https://archive.lecaro.me/public-files/b71/ (any version including latests)
The game should perform well even on low-end devices. It's very lean and does not take much storage space (Roughly 0.1MB). The web version is supposed to work on iOS safari, Firefox ESR and chrome, on desktop and mobile.
If the app stutters, turn on "fast mode" in the settings to render a simplified view that should be faster. You can adjust many aspects of the game there, go have a look !
