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In a typical breakout game, you move a bar at the bottom of the screen left and right in accordance with the movement of the ball, and then use the bar to hit the ball and eliminate the blocks at the top of the screen. In contrast, while the basic rule of this game remains the same - hit the ball with the bar to eliminate the blocks - the player cannot control the bar at all, and the bar continues to move back and forth regularly from left to right. Of course, this alone would make it a game of luck and ingenuity, where you just hope the ball hits the bar, which is not very interesting. In this game, you can pause the movement of the ball at any time. This allows you to control the ball without relying on luck, by stopping the movement of the ball until the bar reaches the point where the ball will fall, and then moving the ball again just when it hits the bar. You can only stop the ball for a split second, but there's no limit to the number of times you can stop it, and you can stop the ball's movement in succession to fine-tune it. It looks like you're playing a normal block breaker, but it feels like you're playing a whole different game. The movement of the ball can be stopped by clicking on the screen with the mouse or by pressing any key on the keyboard. If all the blocks on the stage are removed, the stage is cleared and you can proceed to the next stage. If the ball falls to the bottom of the screen, one life is lost, and if there are no more lives, the game is over. The number of remaining lives increases by one when a stage is cleared. The rules of the game are extremely simple, but to clear a stage, you must constantly keep an eye on the movement of the ball and the bar, and predict where the ball will land from a fairly early stage, adjusting the movement of the ball, making it a fairly difficult game. It's hard to stay focused until all the blocks are removed, but that's why the joy of clearing a stage is so great. In 2016 BreakBout+ was released as a browser-playable version that added various elements such as changing the screen orientation and adding stages, so we added a "+" to the title. To play, just stop the ball with one key, just like the Windows version. |
