Ganymede

The game is - vaguely - inspired by one of my favorite game from back in the days on my old 8bit computer: Titan

A few years back, I set out, as a small challenge, to write a simple game engine entirely in python and using SDL2 (no additional libraries). I spent a few weeks on it then but hadn't really touched it since. Stumbling upon the "Minigame a Month (Feb 24)", it seemed to me I could just revive this project and create a quick game with it.

Ganymede plays similarly to Titan, albeit with only 10 levels, i.e. you must destroy all the red bricks in each level. I tried to improve the physics, which was my pet peeve with the game back then:

• The paddle moves laterally with the mouse
• The paddle can be rotated using A and D keys (respectively rotating counter-clockwise and clockwise)
• By pressing the left mouse button, you may use one of the limited slowdowns (fixed number on each level). During a slowdown, the ball, well, slows down during 10s giving you more control.

Each level has a timer (top left of the screen) as well as a radar (below the timer) showing the outline of the level along with the location of the ball and the remaining bricks. Below the radar is the slowdown counter (and if activated, the slowdown timer will run next to it). You win a level if all red bricks are gone. You lose if you run out of time or if the ball leaves the play area.

I didn't have that much time so there are only 10 levels and only 3 types of bricks: orange (wall - can not be destroyed except with an explosion), red (destructible bricks) and rainbow (explosive).

Credits:

• Music --> TeknoAXE  (Synthwave F and Zen Glitch)
• Graphics --> bricks and paddle are from me (mostly inspired by the FM town version of Titan). Background are the backgrounds from Pixel Frog's Pixel Adventure. The fonts... I certainly have found them some time ago on Opengameart.org but can't find where. If anyone can spot the author, I'd gladly assign credit (and I apologize for not remembering right now)