Type the following in your bash terminal from the root directory of the game.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 game.py

The game is like a classic Ball Brick game just implemented on a terminal. The objective of the game is to destroy all breakable bricks by directing the ball with the paddle to collide with these bricks. Destroying unbreakable bricks gives a bonus.

• There are 2 modes in the game. The easy mode puts a velocity cap to make game more playable but the difficult mode has no such cap.
• The game starts with a paddle with a ball resting on it at some random position on the paddle.
• Press x to launch the ball. The direction and velocity of the ball will depend on how farther it was placed from the centre of the paddle. The farther the ball the higher the x velocity in that direction.
• When the ball collides with a brick, it reduces the strength of the brick by 1.
• When the strength of the brick becomes 0 it breaks and there is 1 in 3 chance that a powerup is released.
• One can catch a powerup using the paddle. A powerup remains active for 10 seconds. Powerups can be stacked together.
• When the ball collides with the borders of the screens, it is reflected back.
• When a ball misses the paddle and collides with the bottom wall a life is lost and everything other than the brick layout is reset.
• You have 3 lives to finish the game.
• After a certain time in each level the bricks will start shifting downward by 1 unit for every ball paddle collision.
• There are 4 levels. 3 simple and 1 boss level.
• The boss level has a boss roaming above the paddle trying to catch up to it. The boss drops bombs at regular intervals and catching a bomb reduces life by 1.
• Hitting the bos with the ball reduces its health by 1. When its health reaches 0, You win. The health bar is displayed in the panel too.
• The boss also has a power of creating a layer of bricks below it twice. These bricks do not give powerup on breaking.
• You can see your current score, time taken, lives, levels, time until bricks start falling, remaining and active powerups on the top panel.

When the ball collides with the paddle, the vertical velocity is reflected. A number is added to the horizontal velocity depending upon how far the collision point was from centre of the paddle. This number is positive for collision on right side of the paddle and negative for the left side of the paddle.

• a for moving the paddle left
• d for moving the paddle right
• x for launching the ball
• q for quitting the game
• n for skipping levels

• Revise the possible moves from the instructions given
• Enter q and press ENTER to exit the game
• Enter p and press ENTER to start playing the game
• Choose a difficulty level and press ENTER