A game where you have to break all the bricks using a ball and a moving platform. The more bricks get destroyed ,the faster the speed of the ball and the platform gets smaller.

The Main class just creates a new BrickFrame class.In the "BrickFrame" you create a window(JFrame) which will have all the resources(or mainly a Panel with all the resources ,which are written in BrickPanel).

Here is where all the action happens.A JPanel created in BrickFrame which holds all the game objects and where the gameplay happens. It uses Ball(the ball you are supposed to keep above the platform) ,MovingPlatform(the platform that you move to keep the ball) and BricksMap(all the bricks you have to break to win the game)classes.

In the PaintComponent method you create the graphics for all the objects and the "Game Over" and "Game start" texts.

The class uses Action,Mouse and KeyListener.The MouseListener is used simply to move the platform and keep the ball up.

The KeyListener is also used for a simple job, to start or restart the game when its game over, or when you have not started it yet. It only acts when the ENTER button is pressed.It also initialises the values for the ball,platform and bricksMap to their default and start settings.

Now in the ActionListener is where all the objects interact. A Timer is used to keep the game running constantly. The initial delay value between events is 3 to keep the game not too fast but also not too slow.

Before writing about the events happening in the ActionListener,lets first explain the classes for the ball,platform and the map.

In this class we simply hold the size of the ball,the ball speed(with getters and setters) and paint method for the graphics.

The same can be said about the platform,only difference is the platform is a rectangle and the ball,an oval(obviously).

Here we make a map for the bricks you need to break with the ball. The size of the map is based on the amount of rows and columns that the object is initialised with.Each brick is a rectangle with given width and height,and initially holds a value of 1 and when it is hit its value equals 0 and is not drawn/painted anymore(its made invisible).

In the setBrickValue method we change the value of the given brick(mainly to 0).

In this method we apply the movement of the ball and if it intersects with the Platform,the Panel`s borders or any of the bricks.That's what we use the booleans move_left,move_mid and move_up for.I use the division variable to divide the platform in 3 parts,if the ball hits the left,mid or right part it moves in the logical direction.

I use a double for loop to look if the ball makes a contact with any brick and if the brick's value is more than 0(it's not touched yet) ,the value of the brick is set to 0 and the totalBricks value(which holds the value of currently alive bricks)is decreased. I also decrease the width of the platform for a bigger difficulty and given the amount of bricks left, the speed of the ball is also increased(with the maximum speed being 12).The idea was to make it really hard to win ,and in that way,make it more fulfilling when you do.

At the end of the method,we move the ball depending on the boolean values, and if the ball's coordinates are lower than the platform(or higher if we look at it from a different perspective)the game is stopped.

• Add levels
• Add perks (when a brick is destroyed there will be a chance for a random perk to fall,it could be more balls,bigger platform ,bigger ball ,etc).
• Lives
• Sound
• More fair difficulty