Breakout
The Breakout is to destroy, through one or more balls, a set of bricks lying in a level.
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The Breakout game select some of the images in your "Pictures" folder.
Simply add the pictures you want to play with inside.
You can also create a personal folder and move it there.
The game will be able to find them in your folder tree.
If your "Pictures" folder is empty or not enough provided, the game will use default images.
The parameters of your application let you check the permissions it uses.
When you are not in game, the global settings are available.
You can choose to show or hide the credits and advertising present at the end of the home page.
But also to select the language of your application between English and French.
And finally to reset all the scores recorded automatically by your games.
When you start the Breakout game, the game board consists of thumbnails of your images arranged on several lines at the top of the screen.
At the bottom of the screen is a bat, that looks like a spaceship, and that you can move on a line by drag and drop.
A ball is placed in the middle of this bat.
Up to the centre, you can see the repair level of your ship in the form of a spanner and a screwdriver.
If you click on the ship, the ball will start moving.
The ball bounces on the right, left and top edges of the screen.
When it hits a thumbnail, it also bounces on this thumbnail which then fades.
The ball may exit the screen by its bottom edge, and in this case, you lose a repair level.
You win the game when you have eliminated all the thumbnails by hitting them with the ball.
You lose the game if you lose all your three repair levels.
When a thumbnail disappears, you have a chance on 5 that one of the 12 bonuses appears.
It's represented by a colored capsule that falls to the bottom of the screen.
If the capsule hits your ship before it exit the screen, the effect of the bonus fires.
CATCH, ENLARGE and LIFE are bonuses granted to the ship.
CATCH allows you to keep the ball glued to the ship until you click again on it.
ENLARGE increases the size of your ship which can reach 2 times its original size.
LIFE gives you an additional repair level of your ship, three being the maximum.
PROTECT and RANDOM are bonuses granted to the stage.
PROTECT creates a shield under your ship for 2 seconds where you can no longer lose the ball.
RANDOM clears a random thumbnail, the capsule moves towards it and deletes it.
FLAME and DOUBLE are bonuses granted to the ball.
FLAME ignites your ball so that it no longer bounces on thumbnails but go through them erasing them on its way.
DOUBLE grants you a second ball.
SLOW and HASTE are bonuses granted to the ball's speed.
SLOW decelerates your ball.
HASTE accelerates your ball.
VOID, FREEZE are PRISON are more maluses than bonuses.
VOID erases all the other bonuses on the screen.
FREEZE stops all other bonuses that will no longer fall for 2 seconds.
PRISON freezes your ship for 1/2 second.
SLOW is a bonus that is very useful to catch his breath during a game, especially as the ball's speed increases over the time.
Take it wisely however because the score is tied to the time taken to clear the screen. SLOW greatly decelerates the game however HASTE accelerates it.
If too many bonuses are displayed on the screen, you can use FREEZE to clearly see the maluses to avoid and bonuses to grab first.
If you are unable to find the right angle to reach the last thumbnail on the screen, you should be aware that it is possible to win the game using RANDOM.
Among the Breakout game options are :
- Difficulty, from 1 to 6. It determines the total number of thumbnail's lines to erase.
- Bonuses, they can be turned off to play in a more basic way.
- Victory animation, it can be disabled.
- Chronometer, it fires at the beginning of a game and is required for recording your scores but can be disabled.
- Sounds, they can be turned off to play in silence or with your own background music.
- Themes, you can choose between 12 musical themes.
- Sound volume, it can be set.
Your high score is displayed on the home page.
On the scores and statistics page, your ten best scores and their dates are displayed.
Your stats displayed in home page are a summary of those present on the page of the scores and statistics.
They give the percentages of games won compared to the total number of games played.
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