Ctrl-I by mihaivdev

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made by mihaivdev for LD30 (COMPO)
A bit of a lazy entry, but wasn't amazingly happy with the theme :(

My entry is Ctrl-I, a brick breaking game in which the two worlds are represented by the two sides of the screen, the Dark World (left) and the Light World (right, upside down) through which your ball and the paddle (the connecting elements) can travel freely.

You have 3 lives, displayed as bars inside the paddle and 3 levels to play. Highscores are saved on your computer.

I made it in Construct 2 Personal Edition in about 10 hours.

Controls:

- Mouse movements control the paddle

- Left Click to start/launch ball

Notes for future:
If I decide to continue this (depends on feedback) I'm thinking it would be nicer if destroying a brick on the left side, destroys the same brick on the right side. Would make levels a bit faster to go through without sacrificing difficulty. The only reason I haven't already done it like that is that I'm still learning Construct 2 and ran out of time.

Would most likely add some music, power-ups and a level editor as well.

Enjoy.

EDIT: Just added standalone versions for Windows (tested) and Mac (untested, don't have access to Mac, sorry) since a few have said that the web version didn't work for them.

If you want to use the Web version though, try it in Chrome, works best there.

Ratings

Coolness 33% 1730
Overall 3.10 666
Audio 1.81 921
Fun 3.41 271
Graphics 2.12 1112
Innovation 3.35 414
Theme 3.47 385

Feedback

tbamberg
25. Aug 2014 路 21:52 UTC
Fun twist on the typical block breakers. The sound was pretty jarring :(
TrickFishPie
25. Aug 2014 路 21:54 UTC
The bricks don't show up for me...on safari
rooter4
25. Aug 2014 路 21:56 UTC
Cool twist on a classic game. I somehow managed to get the ball stuck bouncing perfectly horizontal. I suck at games.
馃帳 mihaivdev
25. Aug 2014 路 22:06 UTC
@rooter4: That should've been fixed, just when I submitted last night I've noticed that can happen and added a very tiny amount of gravity so maybe after about 3 bounces or so, it should have moved out.

@tbamberg: exactly what my brother said :P, it is a bit annoying, wanted to make it generate minimalistic music when hitting anything but ran out of time

@TrickFishPie: Can you try any other browser? It's HTML5 WebGl, not sure how well that works in Safari :(
teoacosta
25. Aug 2014 路 22:45 UTC
Took me a minute to realize the paddle was mirrored but once I figured that out I had a lot of fun.
havana24
28. Aug 2014 路 10:05 UTC
Clever idea and fun! Congrats!
Shide
28. Aug 2014 路 10:18 UTC
Fun to plau and sometimes pretty difficult(in a good way), but the noise is so annoying
shashwat
28. Aug 2014 路 19:25 UTC
Didn't work in FF for me. Worked in Chrome though, nice game!
miwuc
28. Aug 2014 路 19:26 UTC
This is not working for me either :/ I'm on a Mac (10.9.4), I've tried Firefox and Chrome, and in both cases I can only see the paddles. No bricks, no ball, no nothing. There's no error in the js console either.
It's a shame, it looks like a really fun game.
Tanser
28. Aug 2014 路 19:28 UTC
Lots of fun, i like how you took a classic game and changed it! :) The sounds were a bit too loud tho :)
Homletmoo
28. Aug 2014 路 19:34 UTC
Great idea! I would suggest adding small barriers at the base and top where the screens meet, so the ball can't pass across under the paddle; that caught me out a couple of times.
Dronedary Games
30. Aug 2014 路 10:17 UTC
Nice ideia and very well implemented,the sound could be improved tho, well done!!
馃帳 mihaivdev
30. Aug 2014 路 11:04 UTC
@Everyone who can't play it: I'll just add a Windows version of it now. I'm guessing that's allowed, right?
@Everyone who played it: Thank you for the feedback.