Cartoon Bricks

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Do you ever feel the urge to throw a ball at a wall and watch the wall come slowly crumbling down? Well, Cartoon Bricks is kind of like doing that, except it's digital. It's also not a wall, more like a descending body of blocks. However, these blocks pose a threat since they are getting ever closer to your location with the intent to crush you and any balls you've managed to gather while trying to break everything. You've gotta keep the brick forces at bay and use the balls to power through. If you break enough, you'll clear a path to the other side.

About Cartoon Bricks

The original Breakout is a simple and fun game about bouncing a ball with a paddle to brick an arrangement of blocks. This game takes that and combines it with a bit of Space Invaders. The blocks are still there, but they're getting closer to you, and the balls serve as your spaceship that needs to take precise shots. The challenge comes from how you use the block arrangements along with their numbers and how many balls you have. Suppose you can keep track of all that; you can find moves that will keep things breaking. You can't drop the ball, but it can be crushed.

How to Play

Cartoon Bricks is a 2D arcade game about launching balls at layers of bricks to break them by using the mouse. To aim the ball, hold the Left Mouse Button and then drag the cursor to change its trajectory. Release the button to launch the ball in a straight line. The goal is to break all the bricks as they continue to appear and descend toward you. If the breaks reach the bottom line, the game ends.

Before you start, you can visit the shops on the main menu to gather gems and coins to spend on different kinds of balls. When you're ready, you can start the game, and the level will load. The ball will start at the bottom in the center with a random arrangement of bricks above it. After you launch the ball for the first time, bricks will descend and will do so after every launch. Each brick has a number indicating how many times it has to be hit before it breaks. There are shining balls you can hit to increase the number of balls you can launch at once. There's also a Rocket button that will charge as you break bricks, and once it's ready, you can launch it to destroy an entire column of bricks. Keep destroying bricks, and you'll keep racking up points.

Tips and Tricks

Unlike Breakout, this game is more strategic. You have time to decide between shots to determine which will lead to the most damage or net you more balls to use. Aiming for spots where the balls will bounce rapidly between bricks is ideal, but be cautious of the angles since they'll be much sharper than you realize.