Lighthouse-Breakout

A Lighthouse-CAU submission in Wintersemester 22/23 for the module Einführung in die Informatik created by Eisiges Eis. It is hardcoded for a screen-size of 28x14 and was not displayed on the high-rise building due to energy saving measurements.

Quick Start

1. Clone the Repository to your local machine.
2. Install the requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt. You may have to manually install the latest version of Pyghthouse due to reference of a non-existing version of numpy within that package.
3. Place a file named login.py in the same folder. Within it, define username and token accordingly.
4. Start the game through either python breakout_re.py or usage of the controller.ahk file.

Playing Guide

Level Selection

• Press a and d to select a level with the grey bar.
• Press w to confirm your selection.

In-Game

• Destroy all blocks with the ball to win the round. If your ball hits the bottom, you lose a life. You have a total of 3 lives.
• When the ball is above your grey bar, press w to initiate movement.
• Press a and d to move the grey bar. When the ball is touching the grey bar (dark red indication), you can inflict momentum on the ball by moving the bar.
• Press s to pause the game. Then press w to resume.

Block Guide

Color	Effect
Red	1 Strength: destroyed upon hit
Green	2 Strength: Reduced to Red upon hit
Blue	3 Strength: Reduced to Green upon hit
Fire	Speeds up Ball and increases maximum speed
Ice	Slows down Ball and decreases maximum speed
Bomb	Explodes and instantly destroys Blocks within a 4x4 range around the Bomb
Grey	Unbreakable Block

To be implemented: de-buff, buff

Controller.ahk Controls

I was not able to find a python module which instantly recognizes keys being held down. Controller.ahk is my attempt at a workaround. It provides bulk movement operations as well as options for managing game instances.

• You can configure the controls yourself within controller.ahk.
• You may have to restart controller.ahk (using ß) after each window switch for the movement operations i, j, k, l to consistently work.

Key	Usage
ö	start new game session
ä	toggle suspend hotkeys
ü	close all open game sessions (active as well as inactive)
ß	reload script
i	w press
j	bulk a press
k	s press
l	bulk d press

Ideas for improvement

Unskippable

• With higher max speed facing illogical physics (prob. something with framecount logic and speed_x being higher than speed_y => frame skipping) and no x movement (x movement being within frames skipped)
• Make fire and ice blocks stable with framecount logic
• Only call wall.update_img() when block collision happened (causes ball trace for some reason, even with value declaration of new img)

Relevant

• Delete broken items when strength reaches 0
• Add functionality for special blocks
• Add custom block build functionality (x, y, width, height)
• Add more Levels and difficulty setting

Look-Ahead Collision

• Optimize collision check to only check in range or route of ball

minor

• Create ball start and reset animations
• ball color turns grey on impact with unbreakable block or high speed (hardly reachable with current speed levels)
• Implement own FPS Clock
• Optimize keybind hold-down recognition <- workaround using autohotkey controller.ahk

License

APGL License