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Assignment Description:

The goal of this project was to recreate my own version of the popular game ‘Break Out’, with the specific requirements stated in the assignment brief. The goal of the game is to destroy blocks in the game with a paddle and a ball. The ball will bounce off the paddle, walls and off any blocks. The absolute requirements were that the game was created using vanilla Unity’s 2D rending and physics system. Any scripts had to be written in C# and written by myself. The other game requirements were that the Puck is either a square or circular and moves with a physics simulation and can collide with the other objects in the scene. The Paddle is a rectangular shape with a flat top that can be moved along the X axis. This will always stay in the same Y axis. There are four different types of blocks; Weak blocks that take one hit, Strong blocks that take two and transform into a Weak block, an Explosive block that destroys anything in its radius and a permanent block that cannot be destroyed whatsoever. These different types of blocks must be visibly different to the player. There are also Power blocks that have three different powerups; ‘Grow Paddle’ which increases the paddle length horizontally to a maximum extent, ‘Faster Puck’ which speeds up the puck to a maximum extent and ‘Explosive’ that acts similarly to the Explosive block. The Floor is an area at the bottom of the screen that destroys the puck as it is out of play and respawns the puck back onto the paddle. The GUI must be able to display the number of lives the player has, a pause menu that allows the user to ‘Restart’ or ‘Quit’, a success message with a ‘Continue’ and ‘Quit’ button, a fail message that allows the user to ‘Restart’ or ‘Quit’ and a start screen with ‘Instructions’, ‘Level Select’ and ‘Start’.

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