Brick Breaker
By Jake Gordon · MIT license. Source · All credits
About Brick Breaker
Brick Breaker is the timeless bat-and-ball arcade game. Bounce the ball off your paddle to smash every brick, and don't let it slip past you. Clear the wall to move on.
How to play
Drag the paddle left and right to keep the ball in play.
Controls
- Drag to move the paddle
- Arrow keys on a desktop
What makes it worth playing
- Clear every brick without losing the ball
- The angle depends on where the ball hits the paddle, so you steer with position
- Rows are colour coded by how much they are worth
- Score and lives on screen throughout
Screenshots
Captured from this build on 2026-08-26.
Tips from playing it
- Hit the ball with the edge of the paddle to make it travel sideways.
- Work a channel up one side and let the ball run along the top. It clears rows on its own.
- Move to where the ball is going, not to where it is.
Why this game is here, and what we changed
Chosen because it is genuinely good and its licence (MIT) allows us to host and modify it, which we verified in the project's own files. We host it on our own servers, so it loads straight into the game with no third-party ad code and no pre-roll video. The version here needed real work: it laid out a fixed 640px court with no breakpoint below it, so on a phone the right wall, the paddle and half the bricks sat off-screen, and its viewport tag was malformed so nothing it declared after the width actually applied. Both fixed, and the court now fills whatever frame it is given. Its background was a stone texture whose origin the project does not document, so we replaced it with one we generated ourselves rather than serve an image we could not account for. It arrived using a gameplay screenshot as its icon, which looks poor at tile size, so we drew it a proper one. We played it through on a real Android handset on 2026-08-27 before publishing this page, and the screenshots above are from that session rather than from the original project.
More on how we pick and fix these: what we changed in the open-source games and how we test a game.
- Category
- Arcade
- Plays in
- Your browser, no download
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Players
- One player.
- Difficulty
- Easy early, the speed climbs
- Typical session
- 3 to 8 minutes a run
- Last tested by us
- 2026-08-26
- Created by
- Jake Gordon (MIT)
