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Program Announcements / Breakout! - 2D arcade game

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Rapidrory
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Posted: 27th Aug 2009 16:09 Edited at: 1st Sep 2009 16:53
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This is a little game I made based on the arcade game Breakout!
It is a very simple game that involves bouncing a ball against a block with a paddle. Every time the ball hits the block, a chunk of block is removed. Keep going until you have cut away to one of the holes on the otherside.

The contols are left and right arrow keys to move the paddle, and p to pause the game
(space bar is used for continuations such as whilst the game is paused or when it is over etc.)

I have also embedded a couple of cheat keys, but unless you discover them by chance, you have to wait until you complete the game to find out what they are!

Have fun and tell me what you think!

There is no such thing as "Too Fast!"

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Jimpo
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Posted: 29th Aug 2009 21:00
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I was impressed by the sounds and graphics - reminded me of all those days playing Intellivision. But then I realized, the game doesn't actually work. The ball goes straight through the green area and then moves on the the next level. Also, you tried to pass off a slowdown bug as a special cheat code...

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Yeah, i know, but i did say the slowdown 'cheat' was a side effect. Also, what do you mean by "The ball goes straight through the green area..."? I've never had a problem with that if you're talking about it not bouncing off the green block...

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Posted: 31st Aug 2009 01:43 Edited at: 31st Aug 2009 01:43
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Quote: "Also, what do you mean by "The ball goes straight through the green area..."? I've never had a problem with that if you're talking about it not bouncing off the green block..."

The ball literally does what I said. Here's a pic:


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Posted: 31st Aug 2009 17:07 Edited at: 31st Aug 2009 19:35
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Oh really? ive never had any probem with that... its using point statments for the block bouncing:

if point(int(bx#)+2,int(by#)-5)=65280 or point(int(bx#)+2,int(by#)+10)=65280

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bx# being ball x#
by# being ball y#

Thats one of the bounce detector lines. any ideas for the cause of the bug?

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I just tried the point() function and my computer seems to return an entirely different color value for green.

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Ah, that'll be where the problem is... I'll edit it tonight so it'll work on any computer:
(eg: if point(int(bx#)+2,int(by#)-5)=greenpointnum)

greenpointnum=green point number of the computer it is running on..

Edit: I've replaced the download with the new, debuged version...

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Works perfectly now You've made a nice, fully functional game here. Looking forward to your next project!

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