LBreakout

Contents

  1. Menu
  2. How To Play
  3. Extras
  4. Keys
  5. Creating Own Levels

Menu

How to use the menu:
Menu:
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How To Play

Use your paddle to keep a ball in game. You can influence the way the ball is reflected by moving the paddle when the ball hits it. The ball bounces around and destroys bricks. When there are no more bricks you'll reach the next level (LBreakout has got about 25 levels). If all balls have left the screen you'll loose a live and if it was your last one you'll get the chance to by another one for about 20.000 or 30.000 points of your score. If you don't want to or you don't have enough score the game ends. Most bricks will need one hit to be destroyed but there are some exceptions as well. A gray one can't be destroyed at all, a golden one takes four, a silver one three and a bronze one two shots before it crumbles.
Your lives are displayed as bright green lamps in the left lower corner and your score can be found in the right upper corner.

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Extras

Of course, there are a lot of extras to get. They will come up after destroying a brick containing one and can be used by catching it with your paddle.

But beware! There are two extras with bad properties:

frozen Frozen Paddle
Freezes your paddle for two seconds (you can't move).
shrink Shrink Paddle
Shrinks your paddle about 10 pixels as long as it is bigger than your minimum size (40 or 50 pixels).

All other extras are good and you should collect them:

scores Score
Collect any of these extras too get the score written on it.
scores Expand Paddle
Expands your paddle about 10 pixels as long as it is smaller than your maximum size (60 - 100 pixels).
life Extra Life
Gives you an extra life. If you can't get any more lives you'll get 10.000 points instead.
slime Slimy Paddle
Covers your paddle with slime for 10 seconds so balls don't bounce back. You'll have to press the 'Fire' key or a mousebutton to release balls.
metal Metal Ball
All balls will turn into solid metal for 5 seconds. They won't bounce back from bricks but will go directly trough them.
ball Extra Ball
Gives you an extra ball.
wall Wall
Creates a wall at the bottom of the screen for 10 seconds so balls can't leave.
weapon Plasma Weapon
Gives you a plasma weapon for 5 seconds. You can have four shots on the screen at the same time.
random !Surprise!
Could be any extra described above.

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Keys

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Creating Own Levels

You'll have to do the following if you want to create your own levels:
General rules:
Structure:
Example:

Hi! This is just a comment and will be completely ignored as long as you don't use semicolons!
[LEVEL];
michael speck;level 00;
0.2;0.0000015;0.35;
14;18;
[MAP];
18 entries each 14 long
[EXTRAS];
18 entries each 14 long
[END];

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Copyright (C) Michael Speck 2000
Last Update: October 5th 2000