Comments on: Breakout, on acid

Breakout, on acid

delmoi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:06:32 -0800

By: Huck500

Huck500 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:13:59 -0800

Eventually the game became trying to avoid the falling things, and then I succeeded, and then nothing happened. Then I noticed that I could move the paddle off the edges of the game board. Then I quit.

By: deacon_blues

deacon_blues — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:15:11 -0800

Is there anyway to reset the game without reloading? And I'm assuming that chipping away at they colors until they are gone is the endgame but I'm not on acid so I don't have a fucking clue.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:15:42 -0800

Oh, shit, I should not have dropped acid right before I clicked on that link. I mean really, it's right there in the description, you would think it would be obvious. What if you played Breakout on acid, on acid, on acid? Oh no, I can't see what I'm typing anymore.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:16:44 -0800

Are people really too young to know Breakout? I feel old and I'm goddamn 20.

By: fuq

fuq — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:16:49 -0800

There's really only one way to find out what Breakout on acid is like...

By: vrakatar

vrakatar — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:24:39 -0800

HOT.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:26:43 -0800

I twas done using an online code editor, and you can actually See (and edit) the source code here

By: anomie

anomie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:29:58 -0800

Have you ever really looked at your paddle?

By: sidereal

sidereal — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:31:15 -0800

You can fork the code and reprogram it right there on the site. I was playing a version where you could move the paddle up and down....mashing the balls up into the rainbow bar caused an exponential torrent of balls to be released, pretty amazing to see. Where's that link...

By: darkstar

darkstar — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:32:26 -0800

The colors! The COLORS!

By: mattdidthat

mattdidthat — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:33:19 -0800

It works best if you put on Dark Side of the Moon right as you begin playing.

By: sidereal

sidereal — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:35:14 -0800

Try this one. Give it a minute.

By: biochemist

biochemist — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:38:40 -0800

I liked it until the thing only made the tiniest dent in the colors... then I got discouraged and gave up. >>;

By: rebent

rebent — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:41:35 -0800

hahahaha this game is AWESOME

By: litleozy

litleozy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:44:49 -0800

sidereel: that is AWESOME. Like trippy amazingly awesome. One request tho: is there someway that when there are no blocks left the game doesn't end with a clear screen? It could be cool to just have all the remaining colours petter out. But awesome, very much so.

By: dobie

dobie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:45:35 -0800

I got the power up and won the game.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:50:49 -0800

Sidereal, any way you could make the paddle a little bigger?

By: Some1

Some1 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:52:24 -0800

OK, yeah, but have you looked at the rug?!!

By: carter

carter — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:52:52 -0800

Whoa.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:53:14 -0800

High score!

By: sidereal

sidereal — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:53:55 -0800

litleozy said: "is there someway that when there are no blocks left the game doesn't end with a clear screen? " In the fork I linked to, you could probably change line 147 from "if (_blocks.count == 0)" to "if (_blocks.count == -1)" to achieve this, maybe. Give it a shot.

By: sidereal

sidereal — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:56:47 -0800

wonderfl.net deserves its own FPP. end thread hijack

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:06:24 -0800

CLEAR! Is this a Scientology thing? I feel cleansed.

By: kcds

kcds — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:06:37 -0800

Umm delmoi, I don't know where you're buying your acid, but, uhh, I think you've been burned, and you should ask for your money back.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:19:22 -0800

I was left with one pixel and two aftertrails. Do you know how hard it is to hit one pixel? I can tell you. Very, very, very hard. Interesting company:

Gambling for salary? The day before receiving the paycheck, each employee is required to roll a dice. A portion of their salary for the month is then multiplied by the value he/she rolls. Travelling office Every year for about 2-3 months, the company rents out an office in places such as Hawaii and Italy and have their employees work there. The company believes that changing the environment will nourish fresh creativity. Who said we have to rest on weekends? Employees are allowed to select up to three days in a week to rest (yes they have to work only 4 days a week). The days can be a weekday.

By: Flex1970

Flex1970 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:27:31 -0800

Clear. That was kinda beautiful how it all came down like rain.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:38:27 -0800

I liked it until the thing only made the tiniest dent in the colors... then I got discouraged and gave up. >>; You have to give it 30 or 40 seconds to really get going. (Or try sidereal's version)

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:53:06 -0800

Actually, that's an excellent visual representation of the concept of critical mass. When you hit it, you know it.

By: Artw

Artw — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:01:26 -0800

I like the big cascades. Not so keen in the endless blinking around trying to get the last 50 blocks.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:16:43 -0800

Artw: if you try to 'catch the waves' as they come down you can usually avoid having any extra blocks sitting around at the end.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:29:04 -0800

That was really amazing. It becomes really beautiful when critical mass is reached. It's almost like playing abstract art.

By: You Can't Tip a Buick

You Can't Tip a Buick — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:31:56 -0800

Man, thank you so much for posting this. It's... eyegasmic...

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:43:40 -0800

Sidereal: for the first few seconds, I was like, "heh, OK, this is pretty fun." And then I was like "wow, this is getting really intense." And then I saw THE FACE OF GOD.

By: vrakatar

vrakatar — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:02:33 -0800

I have drugs, booze, my girlfriend, girl scout cookies, tv, music, the internet, tf2 (full mefi server), and a dozens of bars nearby and all I want to do is play that again.

By: at the crossroads

at the crossroads — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:23:08 -0800

The Last Pixel Show = [Alt] [F4]

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:27:08 -0800

Yeah, I thought this was the Breakout version of Tetris HD, but then I noticed that one or two lucky rebounds had unleashed a small cluster of "bricks." After bouncing back a few of those it reached a tipping point and it became almost impossible not to sustain the cascade of pixels. Of course once it burns through all its "fuel" the level of activity falls off a cliff and it instantly becomes tedious again as you try to eliminate the last few points with an every-dwindling amount of resources. (Now that I think of it, this is a pretty apt metaphor for a global population crash.)

By: spilon

spilon — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:03:45 -0800

What if we were all just little atoms in the fingernail of a space toad. Whoa....

By: vapidave

vapidave — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:43:47 -0800

Suited nicely with Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak.

By: maus

maus — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:15:18 -0800

Huh! I think the more interesting thing here is the forking code system. Simple flash games with open, editable source that you can then re-share? Are there more of these out there? Is this a thing?

By: electronslave

electronslave — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:32:49 -0800

Sadly, all I've done over the years that compares to this was write an Arkanoid clone on DMT. The results were catastrophic, involving me drawing myself as a black-trenchcoated teenager shooting a stage full of Columbine students. The worst part is that two other Metafilter readers have actually played this game.

By: TedW

TedW — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:47:43 -0800

Took a little patience, but eventually: whoa!

By: Mr. Bad Example

Mr. Bad Example — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:42:44 -0800

mashing the balls up into the rainbow bar caused an exponential torrent of balls to be released Are...are we still talking about the game?

By: chillmost

chillmost — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:52:59 -0800

That's the last thing I would want to play if I was on acid.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:58:11 -0800

I liked the part where all the balls came out. Also: isn't it interesting how if a game takes 40 seconds to get to the interesting part, it's about 30 seconds too long?

By: Brentusfirmus

Brentusfirmus — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:29:12 -0800

I can see that a lot of people would play this and think, 'WTF?', because when I played it for the first time I got unlucky: the initial block just rebounded from one corner to the other, each time releasing one pixel that reached the bottom at precisely the same moment as the initial block, but in the other corner. There was no way I could catch them both, and I didn't know you could catch the other pixel, so I just left the paddle in one corner thinking, 'Are we having fun yet?' Of course I get it now, though. In fact, I'm going there now...

By: pashdown

pashdown — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:56:26 -0800

At first I thought, "This isn't fun nor funny," and then...

By: Banky_Edwards

Banky_Edwards — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:19:54 -0800

Needs more acid.

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:38:41 -0800

Abstract indy game programmer Kenta Cho has an account on Wonderfl. Nothing amazing but kinda fun to look at.

By: sarcasticah

sarcasticah — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:42:55 -0800

That was really, really relaxing to play.

By: my homunculus is drowning

my homunculus is drowning — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:13:08 -0800

Very cool game, and great addition sidereal!