Brick Blast

Brick Blast is a brick breaker with a neon Kiloo finish. A ball, a paddle and a wall of bricks: the angle it comes off your paddle is entirely up to you, because the ball leaves where it lands. Catch it near the edge and it flies away flat, catch it dead centre and it goes straight back up.

Eight hand-built boards start with a simple wall of coloured bricks and end with a fortress. Along the way you meet tough bricks that crack before they break and steel bricks that never break at all, so later boards are as much about finding a way in as about hitting the ball. Bonus bricks always drop a capsule when they go: a wider paddle, a slow ball, a sticky paddle that lets you aim the next shot, lasers for ten seconds, three balls at once, or an extra life.

String hits together without touching the paddle and the combo multiplier climbs, so digging a tunnel into the pack and letting the ball loose behind the wall is worth far more than picking off bricks one at a time. You get three lives, the ball speeds up slowly and resets each board, and your best score is saved in your browser. Mouse, touch drag or A and D on the keyboard; press P to pause, M to mute.