Controls

• Left Arrow: left
• Right Arrow: right
• Space Bar: release ball
• N: toggle 'floor is lava' (i.e. death upon hitting floor)
• I: toggle 'blind mode'
• P: toggle pause
• O: step to next tick when paused

A list of Cool Things®

Not necessarily exhaustive, nor in order of coolness

• Three states: idle, playing, victory (Game says 'Huzzah!' upon winning)
• Side collision on both paddle and bricks
• Paddle moves with inertia
• Paddle bounces off walls
• When ball bounces off paddle, it pushes the paddle in the opposite direction
• Ball is a light source and other entities cast shadows. This also affects gameplay, since the paddle is partially obscured when the ball is at the top and the bricks inbetween them.
• Light around ball pulsates very slightly
• Ball leaves a particle trail
• Screen flashes when the ball hits bricks or the floor
• 'Blind Mode' where you can neither see the bricks nor the paddle, only their shadows. (Toggle with "I")
• Bricks come apart upon impact and scatter particles. (Yes, I know the fragments are circular)
• Level editor
  [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], [1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1], [1, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 1], [0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 0, 0, 0], [1, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 1], [1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1], [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
  Start level
• Bricks can have up to 6 lives and can be indestructible (use -1 for indestructible bricks)
• Code adheres to the Revealing Module Pattern; objects have private and public members, implemented via closures