Journal Entry 5

Date: 30.3.2023

Activity: 

- Downloaded and juiced up the breakout demo

Invested hours: 

2h

Implemented features:

• Brick setup:
  • bricks appear in a staggered wave, tweening their position, scale, and alpha
  • they are now colored by rows
  • the player can't start the game until the bricks are ready
• When a brick is destroyed:
  • camera shakes
  • time slows down for a fraction of a second
  • ball speeds up
  • an explosion particle effect appears
  • the brick crumbles into particles
• Ball:
  • trail
  • emits particles
• Paddle:
  • trail
  • squishes when moving fast
  • squishes when bouncing the ball

Outcome:

I uploaded the juicy result