Legman's Breakout

by spice-cabinet

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.79

>LD50 Theme: Delay the Inevitable
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Join Legman as he moves left and then moves right on his two beautiful legs to play a classic game of Breakout with a twist! Move through the levels of a normal Breakout game but instead of lives the ground is also breakable! Watch out, falling or letting the ball go through the floor results in a game over.
>>>But lets be honest, falling is inevitable.
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For a little more fun use the powerups that fall from bricks you break and try to reach the top of the leaderboard!
- Ball Speed Boost - Faster ball(s) (10 sec)
- Legman Speed Boost - Faster Legman! (10 sec)
- Point Boost - Breaking bricks earns more points! (+100 for 25 sec)
- Ball Frenzy - 4 more balls with 1 hit each
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THANK YOU FOR PLAYING

Credits:
* Music by Gross Papillon
* Invaluable playtesting by Killa FoRillah
* Everything else by yours truly

Tools: Unity

Comments21

Forgin Bits4 Apr 2022, 12:58

Ohhhh nice, a 2D platformer breakout, now thats innovative :laughing: great game ! The concept is cool and the execution is clean ! I did get stuck or go through the floor for no obvious reason sometimes :thinking: thanks for the entry.

Sam Horner4 Apr 2022, 14:11

Cool idea and solid game!

Spice Cabinetauthor4 Apr 2022, 14:45

@forgin-bits yeah, I had a few game-interrupting bugs so I had to add in the forfeit button XD. Thanks for playing and rating! I'll try out yours when I get home from work.

Rose5 Apr 2022, 05:04

This is a great variant of Break Out! The breakable floor is kind of like extra lives but it also makes it trickier... and of course, leads to your inevitable loss. The legs are well animated and I like the little GB game cover art too. I only ran into one bug where the ball started bouncing horizontally at the top of the screen and never came down - the forfeit button was useful there.

jacobingalls5 Apr 2022, 05:06

I love that the "power-ups" are anything but good. Faster? Nah, I'm good thanks. More balls? I'll pass.

ljol35 Apr 2022, 05:09

i had plenty of fun and really like the inclusion of a leaderboard.

I was going for the top but the ball got stuck in a horizontal limbo where it wasn't ascending or descending anymore

ADerpyChickenStudios5 Apr 2022, 05:10

Really cool take on a classic game. I did find a bug that was quite funny lol, you can hook the bottom of the paddle on the ball and go flying with it :laughing:. One thing I wish there was is you could get back up if your caught on the side of a hole, great job overall I had fun.

Spice Cabinetauthor5 Apr 2022, 19:30

Yeah. I wasnt quite sure how to handle the horizontal bug in the time I had left to finish so I added in that forfeit button as a place holder. Getting stuck in a hole and having to either wait it out or quit is also quite annoying so I agree with you there @aderpychickenstudios. Im glad you found the ascension bug but I prefer to thing of it as a *feature* :laughing:

Chartle5 Apr 2022, 22:33

Very interesting idea, I figured out very quickly to not pick up the ball speed "powerup" hahaha. I wish the jumping was a little more solid when hitting the ball, right now you just stop when hitting the ball while it feels like the ball should have much less weight than the guy.

Craig L6 Apr 2022, 00:11

The physics was pretty satisfying, I particularly was happy to see how hitting it with legman's legs still worked pretty well, and aiming the ball wasn't too tough. Nice code!

yusovv6 Apr 2022, 17:05

Cool game, sometimes I caught bugs, in this the ball moved along the same line all the time

Nate_Bit_Games6 Apr 2022, 19:50

Clever concept and well executed aside from a few minor bugs. Leaderboards were a nice touch!

pke10299 Apr 2022, 20:31

Interesting spin on the classic game. Having the terrain changes over time in a breakout game is really interesting and I can see a lot of potential with the premise. I think the movement can be improve by making it more snappy. Fun little game.

iDunnyX10 Apr 2022, 19:01

I love the mashups of genres! I would love to see this if you continue working on it after the jam.

AguaHervida12 Apr 2022, 01:36

breakout taken to the next level~

I had some problems with the collisions and at one point the ball only moved horizontally and I couldn't go any further in the game~ it was fun, the combination of mechanics is great but I would have liked to see more from the platformer side because I felt like the only thing that changed compared to a breakout game was that i could move vertically a bit...

then gravity came and made me remember that it wasn't like that~ above all good game and see you in another jam!!!

Edward Dassmesser12 Apr 2022, 03:12

Who doesn't love a good breakout game? I also learned about dreamlo thanks to this, which I appreciate.

TheInkSkeleton12 Apr 2022, 08:07

Great game! I mean, having breakout as a base game, the game was going to be fun since the beginning, but jumping and dashing made it a lot more fun. I may have found some bugs, but they only made it more fun, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. What else can I say? Sprites were simple but effective, and the sounds were also nice.
Overall, really fun game, so congratulations!

Nebiros12 Apr 2022, 09:28

I liked the idea ! Very fun game, nice job !

Corrupt Spaghetti12 Apr 2022, 10:15

Really fun game! The leaderboard is a really nice addition. I managed to make it to #3!

Spice Cabinetauthor12 Apr 2022, 22:02

Wow! I'm really quite impressed @corrupt-spaghetti that you were able to get up there! Most of those scores were put there by my playtester before all the functionality was built in. Kudos to you for surpassing him!

Spice Cabinetauthor12 Apr 2022, 22:04

Thank you for pointing that out @edward-dassmesser I should put in a more obvious plug for dreamlo. It's a really cool service!