Oh wow, where do I start?
It's a bit bittersweet to be posting my final project on here. I did love the class, and quite frankly, wish I could've explored a bit more. Still, I'm sure there will be other opportunities in life to do so.
This project is by far one of the most immersive, troublesome ones I've done upto date. I got the base coding off the interwebs (I KNOW! HOW HORRIBLE!!!) but I made quite a few changes. One of my biggest hurdles was getting the paddle at the bottom of the game to move smoothly. I got it to move (That was trouble in and of itself) but it was very buggy. Figuring out how to fix that had me pulling my hair out.
What I wanted to do, if I had more time was:
Set it up so that every now and then there's a cluster of hard to break bricks, or random bricks in the set up that are hard to break
These hard to break bricks give extra points
Set bricks up to regenerate slowly. So some come back even after you break them
At the moment, I feel like the code is still incredibly simple, BUT it was a lot of work to do. I had to fix a lot of bugs in the base program, understand the base program and add what I wanted to, onto it. I realized that to change the amount of points and the "hp" of the bricks, I'd have to rewrite the createBricks function, which is far more difficult to do in limited time. I suppose not having been able to come to class is a big part of this.
For now, I've got the basic game up and running. A score board, an interactive paddle and about 100 pts. that need to be won, so... who's trying?