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Physix-Breaker by Kashi

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made by Kashi for LD26 (COMPO)
So ... here goes my Entry for my first LD48 participation.

- 3 Levels
- no Ending-Screen

Controls:
A - bar left
D - bar right
Space - start ball
R - reset ball

Source is viewable via Craftstudio.
http://open.craftstud.io/164.40.198.228/d54edde8-44dd-4ff6-b95e-88c63a119c14

Everything is made inside Craftstudio except sound for which I used wolfram.tones (http://tones.wolfram.com/xid/9038-646-8028-648-1916%0D%0A%0D%0A) and Bfxr (http://www.bfxr.net/).

Windows http://das-kashi.de/LD26/Kashi_LD26.zip
OS/X http://das-kashi.de/LD26/Kashi_LD26.app.zip
Linux http://das-kashi.de/LD26/Kashi_LD26_Linux.zip
XNA (Windows) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914
Mono (OS/X) http://download.mono-project.com/archive/2.10.10/macos-10-x86//MonoFramework-MRE-2.10.10.macos10.xamarin.x86.dmg
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=22293

Ratings

Coolness 68% 3
Overall 2.72 1013
Audio 2.65 593
Fun 2.67 843
Graphics 3.00 569
Humor 1.90 802
Innovation 2.26 1110
Mood 2.50 926
Theme 2.82 1143

Feedback

Branch
28. Apr 2013 路 22:48 UTC
doesnt work on my os. could you port it to ms-dos 6.40? :(
馃帳 Kashi
28. Apr 2013 路 23:32 UTC
i will ... after you installed the needed framework
BigBlackBeard
29. Apr 2013 路 04:41 UTC
The ball have some unexpected behviors, probably because it is made whith some cubes :).
But it add some random movements, wich is pretty fun !
Good work !
馃帳 Kashi
29. Apr 2013 路 13:41 UTC
Well i think you're referring to the point, when it hit's the player-bar. I worked with a little bit vector-calculation to make the ball more controllable:
Ball hits Bar more on the left side - Ball gets more force to the left and so on. The ball is also a little bit controlled by rotation when it hits a block. The ball being made only out of cubes doesn't affect anything since it's physical model is a sphere. ;)
invaderJim
29. Apr 2013 路 14:57 UTC
I like that it uses more realistic physics which makes it different. Good job!
jm77345
29. Apr 2013 路 14:58 UTC
Nice animations and physics!
CryoGenesis
29. Apr 2013 路 14:58 UTC
Interesting, minimalistic take on breakout.
Puffi
29. Apr 2013 路 14:58 UTC
Crashes on me as soon as I launch it. No real error message, just the basic windows "CraftStudioRuntime has stopped working" message.

OS: Win7 64bit
myachin
29. Apr 2013 路 15:07 UTC
first try? good try
馃帳 Kashi
29. Apr 2013 路 15:52 UTC
You have XNA installed Puffi?
Geoege
29. Apr 2013 路 18:42 UTC
Dududu du du. The music is so cool !!!
Also love the idea of a physic brickbreaker, really interesting.
DST
29. Apr 2013 路 18:47 UTC
Linux version: You need to rename 1bitWar_Data to Data for this to work (strace helped me)
reheated
29. Apr 2013 路 18:54 UTC
Haha - I was gearing up for standard breakout style play and was totally thrown off when the ball moved the way it did. Nice take on the game.
EdoMiyamoto
29. Apr 2013 路 18:56 UTC
That was unusual!
Puffi
30. Apr 2013 路 12:33 UTC
"You have XNA installed Puffi?"
Oh silly me, some how I assumed I had it and didn't even check :D sorry for that, works fine now!
Van Merwan
30. Apr 2013 路 13:07 UTC
I like the idea of a breakout with realistic physics.
Be carefull, starting from the level 2 the ball can stay on a white block and it will never fall down again.
馃帳 Kashi
30. Apr 2013 路 14:41 UTC
Well ... you can still press R to reset the ball. ;)
馃帳 Kashi
30. Apr 2013 路 14:45 UTC
"DST says ...
Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:52pm

Linux version: You need to rename 1bitWar_Data to Data for this to work (strace helped me)"

1bitWar_Data? there's no file named that way oO
馃帳 Kashi
30. Apr 2013 路 19:09 UTC
Added XNA and Mono right into the top 5 links. ;)
HelkeGames
30. Apr 2013 路 19:47 UTC
Cool game! I Really liked it :)
jhrrsn
30. Apr 2013 路 21:50 UTC
Really enjoyed this new take on the physics of a brickbreaker game but it made the gameplay quite comparatively slow.
馃帳 Kashi
30. Apr 2013 路 21:50 UTC
Since a lot of people here and those to whom i did show it out of the LD-Community liked it, i will continue development, polish it, add more levels, bonus stuff and more weird twists i allready have in mind. ;)

P.S.: It will also possible to disable the music or at least lower it's volume. ;P
tiffi
01. May 2013 路 08:41 UTC
A cool touch on an old game, but the bar was moving too slow for me
whilefun
01. May 2013 路 12:47 UTC
Neat idea! The pace seemed a bit slow, and the ball got stuck a couple times, but it was pretty fun :)
Salamander3
02. May 2013 路 13:55 UTC
Really not feeling the theme on this one. You took an already extremely minimalistic game - break out - and for some reason made it less minimalistic by adding realistic physics to it and and putting it in 3D, unnecessarily. The music was a series of toots. It looked quite slick though.
SmallDeadGuy
02. May 2013 路 14:42 UTC
Physics was kinda ok. The ball was a bit weird and seemed to just stick towards either edge of the screen. Not much polish such as menus for the 48 hours. The paddle moved far too slowly.
numpad
06. May 2013 路 18:50 UTC
Hmmm.. The game itself is good, but some things are not. When hitting a bar/enemy/whatever, it takes too long until it decays. I really liked the physics. The realism made it funnier than just seeing a ball moving across the screen. Awesome graphics, I really liked them. Also it fit in the theme.
m64
06. May 2013 路 18:54 UTC
I like the idea of using physics based gameplay with a classic game type. The music was getting a bit irritating after a minute or so.
HuvaaKoodia
06. May 2013 路 20:08 UTC
The game isn't very exiting at the moment, as it's not extremely challenging, yet it takes ages to clear a single level.

I hope those weird twists you're working on are really ground breaking.

Basically just adding multiple OP powerups would suffice.
gmaker
09. May 2013 路 04:48 UTC
nice graphics! =)
sP0CkEr2
09. May 2013 路 04:49 UTC
interesting spin on breakout -- i like -- great job!
kibertoad
10. May 2013 路 03:58 UTC
I like how the ball was an actual ball and the effects of the bricks falling. Good job!