Breakout

W Kavanagh. June Summer 2024

controls

A/D to move the paddle right and left. P to pause.

Powerups

big/small paddle (blue) fast/slow ball (fancy yellow) fire ball (green)

Tasklist

Suggested fixes

• Fix the compiler issues in the code

Suggested tasks

• Implement mouse input for pad
• Improved VFX (ball trail, paddle hit response, brick particle destruction)
• Better UI (progress bar rather than timer for countdown).
• GameLoop
• Better ball physics (Box2D)
• Leaderboards
• More ball types (e.g., multiball, sticky ball [where you shoot the ball from the paddle every time], tiny ball, big ball, brick-tracking ball)
• Sounds with increasing tone between bounces.
• Implement commentary with calls to an LLM such as LLama

Time Details and Changelist

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