Brick Breaker

You will create a brick breaker game that is open ended, in other words you will make it better than the original. 

You will start with the basic game then use your creativity to make the game more fun and expandable.

screen shot of brick breaker

Sprites

You will create 5 sprites to start you game 

Objects

You will create 5 objects to start you game 

Objects with no code

obj_wall The walls should cover the top and sides of the room, leaving the bottom open.

obj_block and obj_block2 Used represent the bricks that the ball will bounce against.

Objects with code

Your paddle objects will have these events

What should the ball do?

• A create event gets it moving with a speed of five. 

• Starts moving diagonally right or left 

• If it collides with the wall, it should bounce.

• If it collides with the paddle, it should bounce.

• If it collides with the first brick, it should:

  • add one to the score

  • destroy the brick

  • and the ball should bounce

• If it collides with the second brick, it should:

  • add 5 to the score

  • destroy the brick

  • and the ball should bounce

Extra Ideas 

Ideas to make game better

1. Scoreboard

2. Two players at same time

3. Multi-ball power up

4. Super Shot Ball power up

5. Ball increases speed

6. Game over if ball leaves bottom of room

7. Extra levels

8. Ability to grab ball then release it to aim for block

9. Increase size of paddle

10. Some blocks require more than one hit

11. Some blocks must be hit from above

Play game for ideas

http://kodogames.com/game/brickout/desktop/