DNA Breakout (2D android game)

brwnbread

Hey,

This is a simple breakout style game that me and a friend created. It's our first game for android, try it out:

Google Play

Grorum

Interesting concept. I tried it (Xperia Play) and I think a "not touch" gameplay could be cool in addition.

I like the way you mixed pong with Arkanoid. Good idea to use 2 pong platforms to play.

Maybe some chiptune musics and some sounds would add more concept immersion.

Kosai106

I'm going to install this on both my phone and tablet!
We need more awesome games for Android.

MikeF

tried it on my nexus S and i just get a crash after signing in or playing as guest

brwnbread

Thanks for the compliments

We would like music, but just haven't found anything we could use for free that we think is suitable yet. I think either extremely suitable and cool music or no music at all would be best...

MikeF, if you can replicate the crash, can you report it? so the programmer can check it out? Thanks!

MikeF

no problem, report sent!

HardBaller

Going to see if this works on my Arc a bit later. Though seeing it worked on the play i guess it will. As to the music. Isn't there some nice license free 8bit music. Idk why but for some reason i get a feeling this would fit great with the game. Maybe because of old memories of the Arkanoid time period.

brwnbread

HardBaller wrote: »

Going to see if this works on my Arc a bit later. Though seeing it worked on the play i guess it will. As to the music. Isn't there some nice license free 8bit music. Idk why but for some reason i get a feeling this would fit great with the game. Maybe because of old memories of the Arkanoid time period.

I dunno, I am having trouble finding any. I will add music as I find it if I ever do find any though.

Thanks MikeF

brwnbread

brwnbread wrote: »

Hey,

This is a simple breakout style game that me and a friend created. It's our first game for android, try it out:

Google Play

weekend bamp

brwnbread

OK, so Atari took it down because 'breakout'. So, we lost all our ratings and downloads lol. However, we put it back up under the new name...

and also, here's a recording so people without androids can see: http://youtu.be/B2thaq-dsEg


MikeF: We cant test, but the crash might be fixed now

brwnbread

OK, so Atari took it down because 'breakout'. So, we lost all our ratings and downloads lol. However, we put it back up under the new name...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=deaus.dnabreaker

and also, here's a recording so people without androids can see:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2thaq-dsEg"]DNA Breaker Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

MikeF: We cant test, but the crash might be fixed now

MikeF

gave it another shot, still the same error unfortunately, sent another report

Muzzoid

Hit animations guys, screen shake!

It looks really good from screenshots but where is all the effects animation?

That's pretty much what makes a breakout game fun,

Here give this a watch. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg"]Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho - YouTube[/ame]

brwnbread

Muzz wrote: »

Hit animations guys, screen shake!

It looks really good from screenshots but where is all the effects animation?

That's pretty much what makes a breakout game fun,

Here give this a watch. Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho - YouTube

haha, it wasnt really planned to be an awesome game. We originally wanted to just get sumthing on the market... but then we kept polishing lol. And we still might polish and add features if we get time in the future. Was a really fun project.

We are planning to add differnt difficulties for now, btw. But other than that, I dno yet

Muzzoid

Yeah it just seems really strange to me, the graphics look really polished, but then the gameplay is really lacking.

If you aren't attempting to make it the best it can be its a bad foot to start on .

brwnbread

Muzz wrote: »

Yeah it just seems really strange to me, the graphics look really polished, but then the gameplay is really lacking.

If you aren't attempting to make it the best it can be its a bad foot to start on .

We most probably will fix it up more, but I really don't know when . But you know when u do a doodle, then u turn out fully rendering it and making a 3D model of it, but it was just meant to be a doodle to pass the time. It's kinda like that.

brwnbread

Just updated with 3 difficulties! and finally found some music!!!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=deaus.dnabreaker

SA_22

get on that windows phone version!!

Pola

For audio, you could look into Newgrounds, I think there are some pretty good skilled audio people there that collaborate for free if it's a game their interested in.

brwnbread

Pola wrote: »

For audio, you could look into Newgrounds, I think there are some pretty good skilled audio people there that collaborate for free if it's a game their interested in.

no it's cool, I mean we found audio and updated with it

flaagan

Trying it on a Galaxy Nexus, get the crash at launch or after the login screen. Just sent a report for it, included my forum username in the notes so you can identify who it's from.

brwnbread

We updated again! This ones for the tablets/nexus people lol. Made the graphics good for HD tablets, and the crash should be fixed.

We also added a new block! If you tap it when it shows up... it clears an entire row!

I don't have any screenshots or videos yet, but check it out! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=deaus.dnabreaker

Also please rate/review, we would really appreciate it

SA_22 wrote: »

get on that windows phone version!!

Lol, the reason it's only on android is because we dont have a windows/iphone to test on lol. I don't even have my own android lol..