Breakout guide

Goal

Clear every brick with a ball you keep in play using a paddle.

How to play

• Move the paddle left and right to bounce the ball back up into the bricks.
• Each brick the ball hits is destroyed, and the ball rebounds.
• Letting the ball fall past the paddle costs a life; lose them all and the run ends.
• Clearing every brick completes the level.

Controlling the ball

Where the ball strikes the paddle sets the angle it leaves at: the edges send it out sharply, the centre sends it back steeply. Steering with the edge of the paddle is how you dig a channel up the side of the wall and let the ball clear rows from behind.

Scoring

• Bricks score when destroyed, and rows further up are worth more.
• Surviving longer means more bricks, so keeping the ball alive is the whole game.