Beautiful Bricks Presskit

Factsheet

Developer:
Ready Wolf
Based in Australia

Release date:
November 5 2019

Platforms:
Windows
Mac

Available From:
$7.99 - Steam

Description

Beautiful Bricks is the ultimate 4 player brick breaker. A restoration of an arcade great with awesome improvements like physic-based ball behavior, more paddle control (including an ability to jump), 4 simultaneous players and boss battles. All presented in a consistent retro ‘8-bit’ aesthetic.

History

Beautiful Bricks is a true labour of love. Ready Wolf (Matthew Vecchio) started the project three and a half years ago with the intention of ‘reinventing’ the Brick Breaker genre, or at least to try to fix some of the gameplay issues associated with this tiresome genre. From early in development, Ready Wolf’s focus was to make a Brick Breaker ‘new, exciting and fresh for a modern audience’.

Inspiration for the unique ball physics came from real life arcade pinball machines. Ready Wolf purchased his own pinball machine about the same time as he started developing the game. The idea of having more ball control came because of frustration with of the lack of ball control in most Brick Breaker games. Ready Wolf, a retro gamer, drew a lot of inspiration from the golden age of Arcade gaming. The game runs of ‘credits’, 3 letter highscores and game challenges is akin to ‘arcade difficulty’. A love of 8 bit and 16 bit video games is noticeable too with the game’s chunky pixel graphics, 16 colour palette and its aspect ratio of 4:3.

Interestingly, the bulk the soundtrack was written when Ready Wolf was in his late teens, over 10 years ago. Back then he didn’t know anything about programming but dreamed of being a video game music composer. The songs that were used to make up the soundtrack were cherry picked from old compositions, then rearranged and refined to suit the gameplay. ‘It was surreal working with music that I had written 10 + years ago,' he said. ' There are a few things I feel I could do better now, but I was surprised at how good it was.'

Beautiful Bricks is now finished and ready to be mastered. Will Beautiful Bricks inspire a new generation of Brick Breakers? Let’s hope so. Game on.

Features

1 - 4 simultaneous players
230 levels and 15 challenging boss battles
Over 40 innovative power ups
Play with keyboard, mouse or gamepad
Co-operative and competitive multiplayer modes
Special game modes: Endless, Boss Rush, Invader and Marathon
8-bit style graphics and sound
Tracker .MOD style music
Locally savable high scores and achievements
Unlockable secrets and hidden content

Videos

Beautiful Bricks Trailer YouTube

Beauitul Bricks Gameplay YouTube

Images

Download all screenshots & photos as .zip

Logo & Icon

Download logo/icon assets as .zip

Selected Articles

""Don't mistake Beautiful Bricks for an Arkanoid clone: gravity, co-op support, new moves and boss fights are just a few of the things that make it fun. ""
- 1561, 1561's Thoughts
""Really great game of its genre. Tons of features, fun mechanics and tight controls with tons of option.""
- IndieWorld, Steam Curator

Monetization Permission

Ready Wolf allows for the contents of Beautiful Bricks to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from Beautiful Bricks is legally & explicitly allowed by Ready Wolf. This permission can be found in writing at https://www.indiedb.com/games/beautiful-bricks/presskit.