Breakout

A classic Breakout clone built with PICO-8. Destroy bricks with a bouncing ball, collect power-ups, and clear 3 levels of increasingly complex layouts featuring normal, hard, indestructible, exploding, and power-up bricks.

How to Play

• Left/Right arrows — Move the paddle
• X — Launch the ball / start the game

Break all destructible bricks to complete a level. You start with 3 lives and lose one each time the ball falls past the paddle.

Brick Types

• Blue — Normal: Destroyed in one hit
• Dark Purple — Hard: Takes two hits to destroy
• Dark Gray — Indestructible: Cannot be destroyed
• Orange — Exploding: Destroys adjacent bricks on hit
• Light Blue — Power-Up: Drops a random power-up when destroyed

Power-Ups

• Extra Life — Gain an additional life
• Catch — Ball sticks to the paddle on contact (timed)
• Mega Ball — Ball destroys hard bricks in one hit (timed)
• Widen — Increases paddle width (timed)
• Double Points — 2x score multiplier (timed)