For all the people stuck in the dark ages of 3.7 with the old Brickbreaker (not the new fancy shmancy 4.0). Post your top score....maybe you lucky few 4.0ers can post yours too.

My Top Score as of 9/3/04 - 6645

My high score was 7060. I am avoiding the game like the plague on 4.0. I posted a story in the Blackberry In The News forum about Brickbreaker.

http://blackberryclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=304

There is a claim by someone in the press that they broke 8000. Personally, I would like to see s screenshot

Same here, my top is 4700 so far, and that was a pain to get lol. In 4.0, my max so far is 3200ish.

Did you say 4700? Mike? MIKE? HE SAID 4700!!!

LOL

Did you see the thread on this topic over on the other venerable forums? Man, they were ABUSING THE HECK out of everyone!

4,700 is pretty low lol no offense.

I think Goth had a finger cramp and meant to type 6700. I think you might get higher than 4700 if you just stood still and let the balls all fall through the floor HAHAHA

I never said I was good lol ;) You asked for the score and you got it. I've only had my BB for 3 weeks now, leave me alone haha

I didn't break 5000 until the month mark.

Hehehe

The problem with the game is two-fold. First, it's addictive as heck. Second, it turns you into a deranged lunatic on the forums

If you have an interest in getting better, there are numerous tricks to try. Some are mentioned in the article. Keep restarting the first level until the first "prize" to drop is a gun (start the first level by moving 3 notches to the left, and letting the ball go -- it will always hit the same place and release a bonus). Guns are the best. You get 50 points for a brick. Only shoot Blue bricks with the gun (that way, you get the multiple points until it turns Blue, then the 50 points with the gun). With the laser, try and hit a brick only once with the laser, then with the ball (the laser gives 5 points, the ball gives another 10 and turns the color -- if you hit it twice with the laser, you'd only have gotten 10 points). On levels 5 and 6, hitting the permanent metal bricks with the gun give you A LOT of points (100?), but you can't hit the ones in the far right column. And on and on and on.

After a while you will develop a healthy loathing for that G*d D@mned brick in the lower right hand side between the two permanent metal bricks in level 5. That one little pice of dirt brick will cost you your sanity, and if you're unlucky your girlfriend, dog, house, etc...

My trick is to keep restarting till I get the gun as the first Option. I only use the gun on Blue Blocks.

The graphics in Brickbreaker 4.0 (with the Arkanoid-style background graphics) seems to have good fluidity in graphics. I wonder what videogame API's it is using. Come and post in the Developer forum if you know!

Its just a shame that at the same time as adding those flashier graphics they have ruined the perfect control you had on the earlier versions.

The obvious thing with 4.0 won't be to compare scores for a long time, since theres a lot more levels to go through.

What do you mean by videogame api, its no different from the earlier versions just with more time spent on the quality of the graphics.

I don't think I ever got past 500.

I agree that the controls are a bit weaker in the 4.0 version. Fewer "moves" or "ticks" from left to right. Also, by adding the direction pointer for the ball release, you lose the ability to move before releasing the ball. It seems that this version will be more about getting extra lives, as the speedup and slowdown combined with the blocks dropping lower, make staying alive the real challenge.

Mark: do you think there is a BB API at work here? The reason I ask is that I have found the Magmic graphics to be equally impressive, and I didn't think those were BB specific.

500??? The game STARTS with more than 500, doesn't it?

Skive,

>>"What do you mean by videogame api, its no different from the earlier versions just with more time spent on the quality of the graphics."

Then by all means, I will rephrase my question. What generic API's are in use for making videogames, and what Java optimizations are needed to make high-performance high-framerate graphics. Perhaps there is a website link, etc. RIM page, SUN J2ME page, etc. It would be useful material for the Developer forum!

Possibly, they could still improve the game for the next revision of 4.0 ...maybe RIM is still getting feedback for BrickBreaker! :D

kirson,

>>"Mark: do you think there is a BB API at work here? The reason I ask is that I have found the Magmic graphics to be equally impressive, and I didn't think those were BB specific."

They may or may not be BB specific, that is a question I'm curious about. It would be good to document the programming techniques since there are probably going to be more programmers making more videogames for the Blackberry in the future, and it would be good to know the techniques (like using partial repaints instead of full repaints; minimizing slow OS calls, etc, whatever techniques are used to keep the framerate high for videogame animations)

I lost my old high score!!!
:D but my new one is.............8350!!!
and I was haft light!!


mike

back on top!!

The new gaming api's are part of the MIDP 2.0 specification that RIM doesn't support yet. So you are out of luck for high quality 3-D games ( unless you can get around that ).

Mike - 8350??? That seems hard to believe. Why are there not more emoticons in this message???

because i have "no" competion on the new version.....
no offence pls.....
it was only level 14 ...ie no wheres close to beating it yet!!!!!!!

thats why!!!!!!!!!
hahahahaha!!
mike

Ahhhh...you are playing the new version...

My high score is 9420 - I made it to level 16. This new version is, in my opinion, all about staying alive as long as possible. And it is not easy. Level 15, which is very similar to level 6 in the old version, can actually be very challenging. Good luck, and keep us updated on your high score - I expect you will break 10,000 shortly!

6730 is my new high score! Thats on the first one.

My high score: 5530. How does that fare?

If you try to use all the "advanced" strategies on the 3.7.1.41 version of Brickbreaker, you should be able to get to (or break) 7000 in a few days. The key is to get as many "bonuses" as possible, use the gun to knock out blue bricks (and if possible metal bricks - lot's of points for those), and try to hit bricks with the laser ONCE before the ball hits them -- gives you an additional 5 points. If the stars allign, and you get enough guns, you should be able to break 7000. Best score I heard anyone claim in person is 7730. I heard someone in the media claim they broke 8000 (but I doubt it).

My best was 7060. Good luck!

Mine is 6930.... Still have not broken the 7000 level.

M high score was after missing two guns and a long. So I probaly would have easily passed 7k.

are you guys useing 3.7 breaker or 4.0???
I'm sitting at 10,095 on 4.0
and 7875 on 3.7 version.............. :P
I played 3.7 yesterday after 4.0 and it was sooooooo ez!!!!!


did any one hear of the lady who beat 4.0 version in 4 hours?????
wow
if it's at all true all i can say is....WOW

mike

Mike -- you have GOT to get a life

I know

Ian ian ian,
I need to get a life??
You are all over these forms just like me ole pal!! Lol
Brickbreak is a quick fix to get me away from work....
And I noticed you got a little.
Boy just like I have!!!! Mine is almost three!!! \"Non stop\"
Trust me I have a life!!!
Just brick breaker is one of my few breaks from it all!!!!!
And dumb little forms !! Lmao

Mike

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LOL -- my little guy is 21 months old -- yeah, Brickbreaker at night before I crash is a great distraction -- as is this Forum

I must admit, though, that version 4.0 is very frustrating. Game play is not as good as 3.7 and it has lots of bugs. Still damn addictive, though!

I thought it was just mine...
it pauses.......when i get the bomb..the ball will flash off and on!!!
every " prise I get makes the ball magicilly move??
and best of all.......................the tips of my paddle seem to be an illision!!

but I love my 4.0......... i have my little fellow as the time out screen!!
he's here at work with me all day!!!!!!!!!!
plus...he's double quite!!!!!! ahhhhh peace at last!!!

mike

LOL

Yeah, the bugs are a pain. The ball slipping straight through the tips, sometimes straight through the middle of the paddle...sometimes the ball goes "through" the roof, and comes up from the floor...ball sometimes just pops somewhere else...painful...

never had the roof thing happen yet!! (knock knock)...thanks me knocking on wood!!
hahah

still fun though...can wait to beat it!!!
and are you like me??
I almost get excite when I see a level that looks like the fisrt version!!
ie...level 2 was level 1 on 3.7

mike

Yeah -- but some are REALLY hard now -- like the old level 6 is now somewhere around level 12, and whereas you could finish the old level 6 by only moving the paddle ONCE, in the 4.0 version, this is a REALLY hard level -- specially when it starts coming down!

The "through" the roof thing only happens when you hit the EXACT corner on the top left or top right -- it comes out from the bottom corner. Very confusing when the ball is moving fast...

Level 16 kills me every time. Looks like it should be easy, but once the lines come down, if you die, there is no way to get the ball back in action -- you're just too low down, and it kills me as I try to move the ball to the side. I guess if you got a gun, and could blow a hole in the middle of the metal bricks, then you would only have to die once

I NEED TO GET A LIFE!

hahaha
I dubbed it "the big U"

glad ur admitting it now

After thousands of attempts travelling up and down the Northern Line each day travelling to and from work in the City I scored 7,920.

I know I missed one gun shot and shot a red instead of a blue so you can definitely get close to 8000. I want to get there but cant get anywhere near it now. My second highest score is a pitiful 7535

Is there anyone out there with a higher score or am I the world champ? Proof is available if required

hey flashahah
are you usin 3.7 brickbreaker??
if so "you da man"!!
I gave up on 3.7 a while ago....held the title for quite some time my self!!
I have a poor little 7805......which I hoped would keep me #1
but you can have it!!

attention every one!!
flashahah is the new champ!!

BUT !!!!!!!
I have a HUGE head start on the NEW version!!
good luck when you get it!!
I will be there at the top waiting for ya!!

Mcrules,

Yes - I'M ON V 3.7
Doubt I'll be getting the new one for a while though!

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