Post by Renan LE CARO in Breakout 71 comments

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Thank you for your feedback. You clearly have played the game more than me at that point, so those issues are expected ^^ Thank you for exploring the limits of the engine.

there’s a hard cap at 400 coins on screen, 200 in basic mode, so if you have a combo of 500 things start to break. I agree that there are some weird behaviors at that level. [Edit : the coin spawn has been rewritten to always spawn at least one coin, and put more points in the coin being spawned]
start new game was buggy for a while, should be fixed in web version. F-Droid lags behind a lot.
i’ll look into the coin clip issue, i’ve noticed some similar issue. [Edit : coins speed is now capped at 7x ball speed, hopefully limiting clipping issues]
agreed, i’m rewriting the help for upgrades and will pay attention to the wording of what needs to be done vs effect of upgrade [Edit : rewrite done]
I’ll take a look at the coins spawn bonus count interaction with percentage of catch [edit :should be fixed]
auto pause will get a small delay after a few pauses per run in latest version

Please try the itch.io or web version (https://breakout.lecaro.me/) to get the bug fixes and tell me what you think.

Noodlemire2 days ago(+1)

It'll take a while to re-unlock everything and get used to the normal control scheme, but in the meantime, I did run into one new issue:

In the Temple level, I had maxed Viscosity/Magnet, some amount of Compound Interest/Hot Start, Piercing 2, and Extra Ball 4 (so 5 total). Two seconds into the level, as all 5 balls simultaneously reached the top white part of the stage after cutting through the middle, the entire page and browser became unresponsive for around 5 minutes, until the page gave up with an "Error: 4" page.

Renan LE CARO2 days ago

I had a little bug with a while(…) loop that just sometimes wouldn’t stop, so yeah, sorry about that. There’s basically no QA currently, so buggy releases do happen ^^ The issue was triggered by reaching the 300 coins limit. It should be fixed now.

Noodlemire2 days ago(+1)

Seems to be fixed. Got a few more issues though:

The noise when the extra life upgrade activates, is much too loud.
Coins should use a different color for the Dollar Sign level, because the current yellow-on-yellow makes the coins invisible. (Alternatively, it might look better to just give that level the default black background color)
When the puck is small enough, the multiplier text overflows past the right edge of it and becomes illegible on any stage with a black background.

Renan LE CARO2 days ago

Thank you, all issues have been adressed. i’ve reduced the extra life noise from 80% volume to 50%, the dollar level now has a black background and the coin is no longer shown on the puck when the puck is too small (it just shows “x 100” in that case)