Program Overview:

My goal for this project was to recreate the game breakout/brickbreak in a visually appealing way. The goal of my game is to break as many bricks as you can without loosing all of your lives. Each time a game is started you are given three lives, a life is lost when the ball passes the paddle.

Program Features:

• A scoring system so the user can see how many points they score before they loose.
• Multiple lives so the user gets multiple chances to beat the game.
• Blinn-Phong lighting on all of the objects.
• Multiple types of balls to break the bricks with.
• Sphere/Cube collision detection between the bricks/wall/ball.
• Rolling ball effect.
• Multiple block types that require different amounts of hits to break:
  • Red: 1 Hit to Break
  • Green: 2 Hits to Break.
  • Blue: 3 Hits to Break.
• Blocks that change color based on the amount of hits left to break them
• Variable angle launching off of the paddle
• Toggleable views: Traditional top-down and paddle perspective.

Controls:

• a: Move the paddle left
• d: Move the paddle right
• v: Toggle the view
• m: Toggle to the Mario ball
• n: Toggle to the Luigi ball
• b: Toggle to the Earth ball
• (space): Launch the ball from the paddle

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