Bricks 'n Balls

About

Bricks 'n balls is a breakout clone for Commodore 64. It can be played on real hardware or in an emulator. On each level, your goal is to remove all the bricks from the playfield (except for unbreakable ones). Game can be controlled with joystick, paddle, or 1351 mouse in port 2. If using paddles, make sure that potentiometers are good, if not, clean them. When joystick is selected, keys C,V and M also work for game controll. 

When you activate cheat mode, Restore is your friend. Hint for cheat mode activation is somewhere on hiscore screen (works in prereview too).

Make sure to check levels 10, 30 and 50 for some nice music tributes.

Story

Your trusty flash drive that holds all of your favorite retro games has gone bad. You played them so much that memory cells became weak. You managed to refresh some of them, but in the process some cells became unerasable. After consulting people on various demo parties you managed to create C64 code that can recover the rest of cells via quantum entaglement with C64 RAM, using the C64 as a kind of magnifying glass into flash memory.

Interestingly, it turned out that only graphics from old games and some of your own projects is what resisted erasing.

All you need to do now is to bump  all bad memory cells to erase their content. You can bump them with energy balls, but since their number is limited, you'll need to reuse them over and over. For that purpose, you implemented reflecting bat that can relaunch energy balls back to unerased memory cells. But you MUST NOT miss the ball, or you'll lose it.

Credits for the game

Code

• Žarko Živanov
• TRSE Libraries by Leuat
• Spindle by LFT

Audio

• NecroPolo

Graphics

• Žarko Živanov
• Logo font by TMR
• End picture by Alias Medron

Level design

• Žarko Živanov
• David Youd

Testing

• Žarko Živanov
• David Youd
• Joeri-C64
• Marko Šolajić
• Vladimir Dumitrašković

THX Intro Credits

• Code: Aktar/Avatar
• THX Sound Effects: NecroPolo/Avatar
• Graphics: Clayboy/Invaders

Additional credits for the game preview

• Myztix SID music by dEViLOCk
• SFX Anywhere by 4mat