Beautiful Bricks 1.14 Update

This massive update adds new features, squishes bugs and adds a quality of life improvements.

I have been looking at how people play Beautiful Bricks and thinking on how I can make the game a better experience. This big update reflects most of what I wanted to do with this game. I don't foresee another big update like this coming for Beautiful Bricks. Though I still wish to create a Linux version and create Steam Achievements.

There is also a possibility of the level editor and another set of 192 levels. I might do this but I am thinking of just starting to develop a new project instead!

Thank you to all the players out there of Beautiful Bricks and I hope you enjoy this massive new update.

Additions

• New power up 'Ghost Pad'. Collecting a white capsule with a transparent 'G' will turn your paddle into a 'Ghost' making your paddle able to pass through bricks and able to fire of a 'scare' which can hit balls and collect valuables.
• New power up 'Acid Ball'. Collecting a dark green capsule with a light green 'A' will give your paddle an 'Acid Ball' this ball excretes acid on contact which can destroy bricks. The harder the ball hits the farther the acid goes.
• New power up 'Queue Ball' Collecting a black and white capsule with a blue 'Q' will give your paddle a 'Queue Ball' this reserve ball activates into play when the paddle has lost all its balls.
• Filters added to the game. Various cool graphical filters. Find this in the Display Settings There is a CRT one but sadly I couldn't get the screen to bulge correctly. (requested by Gendou_kun).
• New Drone type added to the main game. Drone Miner a drilling machine that can drill up coins or fatal fire.
• Ultra detail mode which gives the balls a slight trail.
• New background based on small checked squares.

Improvements

• Mouse controls are now more accurate with collision detection.
• Mouse controls easier to enter high scores.
• Mouse control UI updated. Now once MOUSE CONTROLS are enabled players simply click on the status bar of the player they want to play with mouse controls.
• Analog stick movement for paddle is now actually analog.
• Options menu layout re ordered and much more logical.
• 'Go Fullscreen' button added to the file menu in Windows.
• Player's Hiscore names are remembered from previous game
• Added a Safety Bar to the bottom of the screen when a player is save from missing the ball.
• Help screen and manual updated to reflect on 1.14 changes.

Gameplay Tweaks

• Sparkball spark's are now white
• If a Wreckn Ball collides with smaller balls it will destroy them.
• Hitting a Coin brick with your paddle from underneath will make the coin fall directly down. Hitting the brick from the sides will make the coin fall towards your paddle.
• Paddle smashing different brick types can yield bonuses. Paddle smashing a bomb brick will give you a Bomb Ball. Paddle smashing a fire brick will give you a Heat Ball
• Volleyball weak hit adjusted for better gameplay.
• Level warps now move slower making them easier to dodge.
• Warp bricks now warp the ball more accurately.

Deprecations

This field is things which are taken out of the game to improve overall experience.

• Warp paddle is taken out of the game. It has been replaced with the Ghost paddle. I was always avoiding this power up in my own play throughs as it was more trouble than it worth.
• Max Fire Power unlockable now is just Max Drones.

Bug Fixes

• A Boss Battle with the Animator no longer loses the player's balls at the start of the battle.
• Music playing two songs are once during the Gauntlet mode has been fixed.
• Fixed masking issue with graphics on the final mothership screen.
• Volume adjustments for music and sound effects now stop on their max values. (You could cheese it to be 1 higher before).
• Birds no longer show up when they are disabled in Volleyball mode (thanks Shepples).
• Operative can now freeze and unfreeze balls if it has the Ice Paddle powerup.
• Menu now displays blocked out values properly.
• Red Brick Dropper no longer drops unbreakable bricks (thanks MrJBRPG)
• Touching a Warp, Teleport or Motor brick no longer instantly kills the player.
• Some menu pop ups removed as they were annoying.