Breakout is a 1976 Atari game that expanded the arcade game Pong. In the gameplay, the player hits a ball with a paddle in order to break the rows of bricks. There are eight layers of bricks; every two rows use a different color. From top to bottom, the colors are red, orange, green, and yellow. The player bounces the ball off the paddle or the wall to break the bricks and score points.

Breaking bricks earns points, and the player will have three chances to break all the bricks. The ball speed will increase at defined intervals.

You can read about the history of Breakout on its Wikipedia page. We'll mimic the evolution of Pong into our own variation of a Breakout-style game. By the time we finish this chapter and the next one, we'll have a clear understanding of just how powerful remixing can be.

Let's get started so that we can create our own version of this game.