HF Breakout 3 - Hitting Bricks

In this beginner tutorial you'll learn how to make Breakout game in HaxeFlixel from scratch!

HF Breakout 3 - Hitting Bricks

Posted March 20, 2021

The point of Breakout is to break stuff, so let’s put in some bricks to break! Welcome to part 3 of this series!

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March 27 2021

That’s a bunch of the interactions done. But of course we need to let players control the paddle and hit the ball with it! We’ll be taking care of that in the next part. Be excellent to each other, and party on!

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Check out the rest of this tutorial series!

HF Breakout 1 - Anatomy of a Project

HF Breakout 2 - Balls and Walls

HF Breakout 3 - Hitting Bricks

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