Breakout

A modern take on the classic brick-breaker: clear every breakable brick while keeping the blue hero ball in play. Red bonus balls are free, so drop as many as you like.

This was hand-written in Python (pygame) and converted into a webapp using AI. All graphics were AI generated (I can't draw!).

What's in it

• Eleven levels at three difficulties. The later levels bring rows of metal bricks that sway from side to side.
• Thirteen kinds of brick, met a few at a time. Each level's banner introduces the new ones. Between them they give you bonus balls, extra bats, lasers, blackouts, reversed controls, chain explosions, safety nets, a sticky bat, a blurring red lens, and a regenerator that brings broken bricks back.
• Spin: swipe the bat under a ball as it bounces and it curves away.
• Mouse, touch, or tilt: on a phone you can steer the bat by tilting the phone like a steering wheel.
• Chiptune music for each stage, and stereo sound effects.
• An end-of-game certificate with your time and difficulty. You can add a selfie (it never leaves your device) and save it as a picture.
• Installs to a phone's home screen and runs fullscreen, like an app.

Licence and credits

Breakout is free software. 7th software's code, graphics and sound effects are under the Apache License 2.0. The music (Juhani Junkala, CC0), the Exo 2 typeface (Natanael Gama, SIL Open Font Licence) and the Rosette Nebula photograph (Dylan O'Donnell, public domain) are under their owners' terms. LICENSES.md (https://github.com/sarev/breakout/blob/main/LICENSES.md) says which is which.

Dedicated to Helena and Karen.