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BREAK| |THROUGH

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Graphics6732.90
Audio6852.48
Fun7232.91
Mood7982.65
Humor8162.07
Overall8382.92
Innovation9652.48
Theme9893.17

Comments

salmonmoose 2014-12-08 04:01

Cool concept - I found the graphics a little hard to focus on, which would have been the only detraction from what appears to be an interesting mix of breakout and space-invaders.

wandersenus 2014-12-08 09:23

what a good game!!!

wayward 2014-12-08 09:37

Nice retro sound and graphic.
Nice interpretation of the theme

johnbrynte 2014-12-08 10:13

Great take on this classic game! The controls feels really good and solid making it funnier to play than it maybe should be :p The visuals really add to the experience.

leaden 2014-12-08 10:38

Pretty solid. Old good Arcanoid.

kraln 2014-12-08 10:58

Lots of fun! A little sad that once you lose your balls you're all gone.

rzfmzn 2014-12-08 11:00

Took me a moment to figure out some of the rules, but overall I liked it :)
always nice to play a good breakout :)

rzuf 2014-12-08 11:45

Love them screenshakes :3
Solid and juicy.

oh_andrej 2014-12-08 11:49

Breakout is always fun and this version actually did subvert my expectations. Definitely worth playing for a while, new stuff keeps popping up :)

taviandir 2014-12-08 11:53

Wow, really psychadelic graphics haha. i kinda like how if you lose all your balls , you have nothing else to do than to wait for the falling blocks to kill me - gave me a kinda "oh shit i am really going to die!"-feel in my stomach :)

dekkuran 2014-12-08 11:58

Nice! I love that as the blocks come down you can navigate the game as if it were a maze. That's a really novel take on breakout. The graphics are great as well. Are the green textural effects on the blocks procedurally generated?

kiiro94 2014-12-08 12:02

Very nice! Loved the concept and graphics

lisac 2014-12-08 12:13

Interesting twist :)

hexagore 2014-12-08 14:08

Would be nice if you got the game over screen as soon as you lose your last ball, but then it wouldn't be subverting my expectations I guess :P I like the style a lot.

woodecker 2014-12-08 14:12

Nice and difficult breakout version. Cool graphics!

chadheim 2014-12-08 14:12

Fun idea! Only issue was losing control of the paddle when my mouse cursor left the game area due to my frantic mousing to keep those balls going.

pjimmy 2014-12-08 14:36

nice game, but it's missing a Pause button.

cryogenesis 2014-12-08 17:27

Really fun game!

oskardevelopment 2014-12-08 17:29

Nice retro game mood, inspiring both the graphics and audio! Would've preferred that I lost if I lost my balls. Good luck! :)

legiion 2014-12-08 18:02

I think you should add a mouse lock

eponesh 2014-12-08 18:51

Nice innovation of a classical game!

von-hunt 2014-12-08 19:13

Simple and satisfying execution of a classic game. Good job

noahbrocz 2014-12-08 19:20

Nice game, maybe player could have more balls. Check my game too: Presidents bodyguard simulator.

badlydrawnrod 2014-12-08 19:38

It played well enough, but I had problems whenever the mouse left the window which happened rather too often. I know that's Flash not you.

sharpie656 2014-12-08 21:07

Pretty cool game, lost all my balls in seconds and just waited for the block to kill me.

rabbit 2014-12-08 21:54

Cool graphics.
Bad sound.
Wish it had music. :(

When I lost all of the balls I had no way to restart?

tasteslikefuture 2014-12-08 21:58

Interesting take on brick breaker. Aesthetics were pretty cool too. Great job!

jupitron 2014-12-08 22:52

Nice game, awesome style, a lot of cool little details.

syawqy 2014-12-09 01:12

I lose too early...

integershift 2014-12-09 02:29

Graphics were interesting the game was a pretty standard brick breaker but it was pretty good the only thing really lacking was innovation also. You may should have opted out of Humor

elephly 2014-12-09 03:25

Nice, addictive and well done, though all too similar to brick breaker as it is.

haslettj 2014-12-09 03:29

My only compliant is that it doesn't end right when the balls are all gone. You have to wait for the blocks to get you.

kunonooni 2014-12-09 03:57

Interesting take on a classic game.

jupiter_hadley 2014-12-09 04:08

Nicely done.I Included it in part 2 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/QrqYJieiXWs

alvarop 2014-12-09 04:48

As silly as it may sound, this is one of my favorite games so far. Simple, clean and really nice aesthetics. A twist on a game that we all know and love. Really, this was executed in a very clean and clear fashion. Good job!

ozcr 2014-12-09 05:18

Really cool game!

Give mine a try, http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=44154

groydis 2014-12-09 08:20

I like the art style you used, the game mechanic is solid. Except when I lost all my balls and the game didn't instantly reset. Good Job.

alsweigart 2014-12-09 08:47

Decent game. I like the spin on the classic block breaker concept.

hippolyta 2014-12-09 12:33

Nice endless breakout-game - had a lot of fun playing this piece... Good old time ;-)
Good job!

mcdingus64 2014-12-09 15:47

Thanks for playing everyone! I see that at least some of you experienced the game the way I had intended, so I can now officially declare this LD a success for me.

In reaction to some of your questions and concerns:

-Regarding having to wait when you lose all your balls: intentional! Await the inevitability of death, it is your punishment for betraying the trust of the balls! (hint: if you don't want to wait you can press R at any time to restart)

-Regarding the lack of a pause feature: oops. click out of the screen and HaxeFlixel will pause it automatically though.

-Regarding the mouse leaving the screen: That'll teach me to use mouse controls in Flash. Keyboard controls just weren't responsive enough though. Oh well.

-Regarding the graphics: no procedural anything, just 16 sprites with random splotches of pixels. Cool that it seemed convincingly random, though!

Again, thanks for playing, hope to see you all next LD!

marvalgames 2014-12-09 16:25

Talk about retro.
I think this game came out before breakout :)
Commodore Vic-20 or something.
Nevertheless real nice twist on the games and the look works.

daviosmash 2014-12-09 16:29

It was fun - a mix of overwhelming but manageable. The graphics were hard to look at, but I do like the attempt at style.

greenyuk 2014-12-09 16:51

Not very original, but a solid implementation of a good game. I appreciate the unique graphics, but wasn't a massive fan of them. Solid job overall OP. :)

nobuyoshi 2014-12-09 17:42

The graphics and sound are great.

hypnoticbytes 2014-12-09 19:33

Love it! Nice graphics and very challenging. The only thing I missed is some music, but I really liked it.

endesga 2014-12-09 23:48

awesome game! :D I love it

fergusontv_ld31 2014-12-10 11:05

Classic but efficient. Good job.

ky533541 2014-12-10 16:21

Cool visual style and the sound effects were very fitting and satisfying!

6downstudios 2014-12-11 00:03

Quite fun, and really groovy graphic style! Go HaxeFlixel!

slothmachine 2014-12-11 17:25

Cool breakout. Simple gameplay works always. I like the falling blocks, they give old game a nice twist. Good job

ynots 2014-12-12 20:41

CLASSIC ONE...

lmt 2014-12-12 21:24

A nice little game. I do like the mix on the original breakout game, it seems quite new.

asobitech 2014-12-16 19:58

interesting take on the the breakout/arkanoid theme.

commanderstitch 2014-12-29 23:20

a bit slow. cool on the random width thingy of the paddle!