Bricks Breaker

A cross-platform Arkanoid/Breakout style game to play on iOS, MacCatalyst, Android and Windows made with DrawnUI for .NET MAUI.

• Google Play

• AppStore

Game Features

• 12 levels of ball versus bricks madness!
• Catch powerups destroying the bricks!
• If you are lucky enough shoot at bricks in Destroyer mode!
• Discover hidden music by catching rare powerups
• Auto-generated levels
• Available in 9 languages
• Play with touch/keyboard/mouse/apple controllers

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How To Play

With touch:

Tap the bottom-left corner button to open Settings.
By default you can move one finger everywhere, the bottom HUD would be just the conviniet area to place it.
Settings: if you enable "Press HUD" mode you would then need to press the left or right arrows of bottom HUD to move the paddle instead of panning the finger everywhere

With keyboard/mouse/controller:

Left, Right to move Paddle
Up, Down to move inside Settings
Space/Enter, to Fire
Esc to open Settings

Discover game content on your own, no sploilers here!

🤓 Read the article: Breakout: Building A Cross-Platform Game in .NET MAUI with DrawnUI and Hot Preview

App Features

• Cross-platform for iOS, MacCatalyst, Android and Windows with hardware acceleration
• Control with touch/mouse/keyboard, customizable keys
• Background music and multichannel sounds
• Localized to 9 languages, auto-selects font upon language
• Auto-scales to any screen/window size
• AI-controlled paddle
• Auto-generated random levels
• Auto-unblock stuck ball
• Raycast collision detection
• Layered rendering
• Dialogs with glass-style transparent backdrops
• Input controllers support

Development Features

• Compatible with .NET HotReload, built with Fluent C#
• All game field content is built with vector shapes and scalable to infinity
• Windows: x64 can run both MSIX-packaged and "Steam-friendly" unpackaged mode
• Uses Hot Preview to dynamically preview levels/states/languages/sprites and much more
• Uses Soundflow for sound on Android
• Uses Plugin.Maui.Audio for sound on all other platforms
• Uses DrawnUI for .NET MAUI for layout/gestures/fluent/bindings/rendering pipeline
• Uses SkiaSharp to make this all possible

Development Notes

• Actuallly you need to install Hot Preview dotnet tool to compile the app if previews nuget is referenced:

  dotnet tool install -g HotPreview.DevTools

• MainPage.HotPreview.cs contains all the HotPreview items. Read an article about how to use HotPreview.
• Soundflow solved Android performance playing sounds/music.

Credits

• Music - All by Eric Matyas (Soundimage.org) please visit his site if you need high quality gaming audio content
• Sound FX - Those by Eric Matyas (Soundimage.org): powerup27, quirky7, quirky26, synthchime2, bells1
• Glassy App Icons - The settings button by Laura Reen, fell in love with the settings icon, licensed under CC Attribution

Optional Maybe ToDo

• Indestructibe bricks flash when hit
• Add enemies, main interest is they move and the ball is bouncing from them unexpectedly
• An AI-boss paddle would appear on top after all bricks destroyed would need to be outplayed
• Add shaders effects
• Add Pong mode!