Breakout

Inspiration

The classic Breakout game was a part of my childhood. I wanted to see what it took to make one of my own, as well as explore what else I could add to make it a bit more interesting.

What it does

You use your mouse to move the paddle at the bottom to get the ball to bounce off and hit the bricks, which disappear after being touched. The goal is to score as many points as possible, or hit all the bricks, before you lose all your lives, which are lost when you let the ball hit the bottom of the screen.

How we built it

I used the Breakout starter kit from Scratch to get the basic functions, and continued to code more features to extend the game, with the help of my mentor.

Challenges we ran into

Since I'm an absolute beginner at coding and this was the very first project I tried to make, it was really confusing ( I got a headache from it all). There were some moments when just didn't know where to put a block of code, or I tried to do something but it didn't work for whatever reason so I had to see what went wrong.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

In general, as this is my first project in coding, the fact that I was able to make something at all with little to no background knowledge is something I am proud of. It was also a rewarding accomplishment when through trial and error, I got things to work the way I want them to.

What we learned

I learned a lot about the process of game development and all the hard work and time you would need to commit to create something. There's a lot of testing involved every time you write a block of code to make sure that it works how it's intended.