¶ SanityBreaker
The SanityBreaker logo
SanityBreaker is a Breakout clone game created by UW. It is his first finished Unity game, and was developed in 2 days.
While the game is similar to Breakout, it has an unfair twist: random deprimuses can spawn and give you buffs or debuffs. The objective is to break all of the bricks, which isn't as easy as it sounds.
¶ Gameplay
The game plays almost exactly like like a Breakout clone. The player can control the paddle with the mouse, and has to prevent the ball from touching the void (i.e. bottom wall). The goal is to break all of the bricks with the ball. Multiple deprimuses can spawn on the screen.
An in-game screenshot of SanityBreaker. Several deprimuses can be seen on the screen
¶ Controls
- Mouse cursor - paddle movement
- Mouse left click / R - Reset game
- Mouse right click - Toggle AI
¶ Deprimuses
Every second, a random deprimus spawns with a 30% chance. Every deprimus affects the game in one way or another:
- Deprimus - instantly spawns 2 more random deprimuses
- Fericitus - instantly despawns all deprimuses on the screen, and also cancels all buffs and debuffs
- Agillius - doubles the ball speed for
5seconds - Chansus - instantly breaks
1to3random bricks - Ghinionus - instantly respawns
1to3random broken bricks - Confuscius - inverts the player movement for
5seconds (on the X axis) - Crizatus - shows a transparent red screen with Crizatus and gently shakes the camera for
5seconds - Nervosus - slightly more pronounced version of Crizatus, shows Nervosus instead of Crizatus
- Curiosus - the ball will go after spawned deprimuses for
5seconds - Ordinarius - the ball will flee from the closest deprimus every frame, for
5seconds - Dilius - triples the deprimus spawn chance for
5seconds - Disgustus - makes the paddle garnet and changes the game mechanics for
5seconds: you have to let the ball touch the void - Inginius - instantly spawns
2Chansus - Foolus - instantly spawns
2Ghinionus - Hlizatus - shakes the camera greatly for
5seconds - Obsedatus - all bricks are invulnerable for
5seconds
¶ Trivia
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the game is called SanityBreaker because it's so frustrating to play that it might as well break your sanity. It also indicates that the game is a BrickBreaker/Breakout clone
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AndrewIGD was the first one to test and finish the game
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the game originally featured a pause menu, but it was removed because it could be exploited by the player to win the game easily (by rapidly pausing and unpausing while moving the paddle)
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UW created a special build of the game for the other Deprimus members, which didn't include Nervosus (because it was a V3 spoiler, and the others haven't played it yet)