Brickout will have some power-up items to make it a little more engaging.
I’ve come up with a way in which the items are created during play. You have to break so many bricks of a certain color to create an item. For example, for to create one item, say you need to break 30 of the green bricks. For another one, you need to break 20 of the blue ones. Something like that. Combine this with the function of bricks descending during play (when they descend, they change color), and it can make some items, especially those which are created by breaking “higher up”-colored bricks, like red or orange, more rare.
When an item is created, it is is shown as a colored orb with an icon inside. For example, one item will look like this:
To collect an item, you would simply move your paddle over it as it falls. All items will fall from the top of the screen, and off the bottom if not collected.
I’m probably got to have about 10 items or so. Stay tuned as I build out basic functionality for each of them.
– C. out.