8-Bit Symphonoid
Here's a breakout game I made for the 8-Bit Symphony charity.
Contents:
Screenshots
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Features
- 50 levels
- Powerups (Lasers, Multiball, etc.)
- Multiple difficulties
- Orchestral music
- High score lists
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Version History
October 5th 2023
- The music now pauses when the game loses focus.
October 4th 2023
- Completely rewrote the game.
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Design:
- Lowered the resolution to 320 x 200.
- The playfield is now square (almost) with a sidebar on the right.
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Gameplay:
- Added actual level design by having the images in the background with bricks on top.
- Increased the number of levels from 33 to 50.
- Added hard bricks. These take multiple hits to smash, unless you have the Power Ball powerup.
- Added unbreakable bricks.
- You can now choose between 4 difficulties.
- The ball will now always deflect at a minimum angle from horizontal and vertical to prevent it from bouncing endlessly.
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Powerups:
- Added Add Bricks, Crazy Ball, Dizzy Paddle, Double/Triple/Quadruple/Quintuple Points, Fog, Harden Bricks, Invisible Bricks, Poison/Antidote, Remove Bricks, Reverse Paddle, and Soften Bricks.
- Removed Expand Ball and Shrink Ball as they didn't really have any effect on the gameplay.
- Time-based powerups are now shown in the sidebar when active.
- You can now only fire once every half second with the Lasers powerup.
- The ball now has a trail of fire when the Power Ball powerup is active.
- The Slow Ball powerup now makes the ball accelerate faster until it reaches its previous speed.
- The paddle now has visible laser guns when the Lasers powerup is active.
- Some powerups are now more rare than others.
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Sound:
- The old medley of 20 rendered tracks from 8-Bit Symphony: First Half has been replaced with a medley of orchestral recordings of all 42 tracks from the complete (so far; nudge, nudge) 8-Bit Symphony Pro.
- The music will now start at a random track.
- Added a jukebox section where you can listen to the various tracks.
- Added sound effects.
- Added settings to adjust the volume of the music and sound effects.
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Various:
- You can now select the starting level (with preview), assuming you've unlocked it.
- Added a How to Play section.
- Added a setting to automatically submit high scores once you've entered a name.
- Updated the scoring system and included time bonus.
November 2nd 2020
- Changed the 8-Bit Symphony button back to a Kickstarter button now that the Kickstarter for Part 2 is about to go live!
February 27th 2020
- Further reduced the size of the game by converting the music to ogg format.
- Changed the Kickstarter button to an 8-Bit Symphony button. Click it!
- Moved the API. Not really worth mentioning, but there you go.
August 20th 2019
- The size of the game is now less than a third, thanks to IMA-ADPCM encoding of the music. I would like to use an ogg file instead of a wav file, but that currently crashes both the game and the editor, which I suspect is due to a bug in Godot Engine.
August 19th 2019
- The game now captures the mouse pointer. No more losing control of the paddle or accidentally clicking outside the window.
August 18th 2019
- First public version.
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Credits
| Programming: | Thomas Finnerup |
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| Music: | Rob Hubbard, Chris Abbott, Alisdair Pickering, and Robin Tait |
| Photos: | Jason Moon |
| Drawings: | Steph Abbott |
| Logo: | Steve Green |
| Graphics: | Thomas Finnerup |
| Additional Powerups: | Dan Nordly |
| Font: | Seba Perez |
Created With:
- Godot Engine
Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur, and contributors - Pixelmator Pro
Pixelmator Team - Aseprite
Igara Studio S.A.
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