Breakout 71

The game seems to consistently crash when I reach level 12... is there meant to be a limit to the levels even with "limitless"?

Also, scrolling seems to be broken on desktop browsers (both firefox and chrome)

[I love the game by the way]

The option to adjust the possible starting perks in the latest Play Store beta version seems to not work properly. I swapped some but I have multiple times gotten, for example, Picky Eater which isn't on my list.

I was sent there from F-Droid as this is your issue tracker so...

I got a small issue with the game starting perks: selecting a starting perk resets the level you selected and selecting a level resets what perk you selected...What is the point of this feature if you can't select what level you want to play with? 

What's the deal with this unbounded perk? It seems to be a guarantee that you'll lose the game right after you take it.

Really enjoying this after you added it to f-droid! I love all the unique upgrades (the new one I tried today was a bit confusing, Unbounded, I thought by 'the sides are removed' the ball would emerge on the other side of the screen, which is not what happened at all, but if you want to create an upgrade that does that with the sides I think that would be fun).

I do wonder if there could be a way to temporarily disable specific upgrade options. As you add more options it can be harder to create interesting or just specific builds, depending on your luck of the draw. This is a minor concern, as games are very short anyway so there's always the next run, but it's just a thought I was entertaining. You could possibly limit the number of disabled upgrades by having each one cost a +1 to your coin combo (keeping a lower bound of +1 coins that just starts increasing once your coin combo increases above the number of disabled upgrades). That would likely be confusing for the user though. Another thought I had was rewarding the player as part of the unlocks system with occasional +1 coins to their combo, just as a flat upgrade to their ability to build score, and then they could use those specific +1 coins to trade between guaranteed higher scoring and the ability to disable upgrades (creating a way to naturally limit how many upgrades one can have disabled at once). This ability may be more complicated than you are interested in, however.

Again, just thoughts I've had. Thank you for the fun game. :)

I Deleted all the other games on my phone after I realised this is the only one I've been playing. Top tier.

Thanks for creating this awesome game!

Is it intentional, that on the enderman level the wite ball is invisible on the white background? The only way to play it is to have the upgrade, that makes the ball black.

Latest F-Droid version, “Hot Start” no longer has any effect if any other (combo-based?) perk is enabled

In the latest F-Droid version, the game consistently freezes upon using either of the ball attraction/repulsion upgrades, whether they're chosen mid-run or from the Starting Perk menu.

My personal best on Mobile has now reached 102,161 points! I even recorded some gameplay from the final round. However, it's not an issue with the recording software - you can see the little circle indicating where I touch moves at a stable framerate - but the game itself does not. This is why I mentioned earlier, how blocks should generate 10-value or 100-value coins instead of so many 1-value coins. The game will easily run better if it simply has less physics objects to handle at once.

Towards the end, you can very visibly see the balls phase through the puck entirely. The 2:14 mark has the clearest example, as a red ball dive-bombs through the puck, Puck Control string visible the frame before it despawns.

EDIT: My new high score is 225575. I didn't get a recording because I wasn't paying enough attention and only saw the score after the run was over. I'm not even sure what I did differently, other than just... actually beating the final level, I suppose? Maybe collected an extra Sturdy Brick? Not sure. Good news is that the lag wasn't anywhere near as bad, but I'm unsure if that's from the update or if I just had better luck in regards to far fewer coins getting stuck and accumulating in little holes.

Latest version (Play Store Beta, that is. 29011518) seems to have a bug where I instantly lose the Hot Start multiplier as soon as the level starts (when I first touch to move the paddle).

Hi! I found a bug on the Android version of the game (downloaded from f-droid). 

This level is impossible to beat. Even after the blocks are all broken, the balls keep going until you lose on purpose. 

But we can see that small pink line on the left, I guess it has to do with the problem. 

Otherwise, congrats. This is a lovely game! 

Hello, how do we report bugs? I've spotted a small text error in a description.

i would love a pc (linux/windows) offline version

I played this game on F-Droid. (and tried for a few minutes the web version)

It’s pretty addictive, I like the game itself and might play more in my free time.

Some things I’d suggest :

• Add color schemes into the game (ex : Catppuccin, Dracula, Terminal, etc), probably some default customization settings, or perhaps unlockables?
• Perhaps you should add a toggle to switch between the “coin” design and the sort of bubble colors, I prefered the old design but other might also like the coins design… So better do a choice. :P
• Unlikely but… A sandbox mode ? (maybe after 100%ing the game)

I might find more suggestions with the time, but for now the game looks pretty much awesome, great job!

Really fun game, but noticed a few issues.

For one, the upgrade that makes last few blocks explode is off-by-one. It's first level does nothing, second level breaks one last block, third level breaks two, etc.

Two, sometimes I get those like "light paths" when bouncing the ball but I have no idea what they are supposed to be. If they are meant to show the balls predicted path, then they are basically always incorrect.

Third, I think the runs are a bit too short.

This is playing on the F-droid version.

I'm on Android 11, game version 29005750 from F-Droid. There are a number of technical issues I've encountered thus far:

• The app is very prone to not just lagging, but cases where some blocks visibly drop 0 coins when broken, seemingly because some entity limit has already been reached. I would suggest allowing broken blocks to spawn 10-value coins or even 100-value coins once the multiplier is big enough.
• Trying to start a new game via button literally never works. Usually it leads to a black screen for me, only once was the screen white. Regardless, I always need to restart the app to begin a new game.
• At high enough speeds, coins are sometimes capable of clipping through the puck, forcing score/multiplier pentalties (if using Compound Interest) despite not truly missing the coins with the puck. This is most noticeable with max Coin Magnet and little to no Viscosity in the later levels, as big clumps of coins will fly directly into the Puck, but then as it eats them, it just farts out a few of the coins into the pit for no reason.
• Sapper and Kaboom also make coins capable of clipping past the bottom edge of the screen itself, with strong enough explosions. This results in the level becoming unbeatable, as such coins never despawn. If this happens, the level inevitably becomes nothing more than a ball juggling simulator on an empty black screen, until the player accepts a loss or restarts the app.
• I think some of the combo-related upgrades should be described better. Shoot Straight and Sky Limit both say they offer more coins, but Hit Streak and Picky Eater just sound like they make you do whatever's described. Hot Start and Compound Interest do the same, but those two at least have the advantage of having names that help intuit their functions.
• Edit: And a bonus bug, the new upgrade that doubles coins but makes blocks sometimes not break when hit? Yeah it just let me achieve 7606 coins collected out of 3610, which was only worth a +Choice and not a +Upgrade.

Also, the choice of control scheme for Mobile is weird, compared to PC. Because the game auto-pauses just by lifting your finger, it's possible to play the game in frame-advance mode, by repeatedly tapping the screen to make coin collection seemingly much easier than intended.

At the same time, it's satisfying to play the game this way, since it lets me effectively multi-task the puck where necessary by tapping the left and right sides of the screen repeatedly to, say, collect two streams of coins at once, or redirect a ball while in the midst of coin collection. If you ever decide to make the mobile control scheme more like PC's, I think you should at least leave the current system as an option.

Despite the bugs, I've had plenty of fun with the game thus far. Just reached 100% unlocks (665728 score total) and my current high score is 79199 from earlier today. By level 10 I had a consistently ~500x multiplier with four max-piercing balls with Hit Streak, maxed Hot Start and Compound Interest, and a bunch of upgrades for easier coin collection and ball repulsion.

Don't need Soft Reset when the combo doesn't reset, and I feel like the combo types based on color or hitting other sides of the screen, even with Soft Reset, just aren't worth it in the long run.

Salut, L’issue tracker renvoie sur itch, j’imagine qu’il vaut mieux poster bug et suggestions ici dans ce cas ?

1. Très souvent le jeu se soft-lock quand je veux démarrer une nouvelle partie: il m’affiche un écran blanc sans boutons, parfois un écran noir, et je suis obligé de redémarrer l’appli complètement.
2. Les différentes upgrades de combo ne se superposent pas, mais s’ente-annulent (la dernière choisie est toujours préférée). c’est peut-être voulu mais ce n’est pas ce à quoi on s’attend en tant que joueur.
3. si j’ai bien compris, l’upgrade qui détruit les dernières briques n’est efficace qu’à partir du 2e niveau, le niveau ne donne aps de bonus. c’est normal ?
4. je suis daltonien et je trouve le mode daltonien très décevant ! je suis sûr qu’on peut trouver un moyen d’inclure/adapter les mécaniques pour les rendre accessibles. combien de couleurs existe-t-il en tout dans le jeu ? si il n’y en a que 4 ou 5, ce serait très facile de les sélectionner de telle sorte à ce qu’elles soient toutes visible par tous les daltoniens (en se basant sur la luminosité des couleur, pas leur gamma). autre exemple: en associant chaque couleur à un motif ou forme différente (carreaux, rayures, points, bords carrés, crénelés, en vaguelettes…).
5. quand le jeu se termine (toutes les vies perdues, dernier niveau fini) l’écran se fige sans plus d’informations. j’ai découvert assez tard qu’il fallait appuyer sur le score en haut à gauche pour voir ce qu’il s’était passé et relancer une partie. pensez à mieux communiquer ce qui se passe dans le jeu !
6. ce serait pas mal d’inclure un petit manuel de jeu dans le jeu lui-même, pour ne pas êtr trop perdu
7. permettre la traduction du jeu via une plateforme de crowdsourcing comme weblate pour augmenter sa visibilité :)

Good game.

The level are fun, lots of power up: the ball control is a nice one.

The conis can be more different then the ball i think. Also a more notice that you catch them would be good.