Demo Release!

This is the demo release of Hot Spud and there's a lot here! There's also still a lot to do to consider the game complete, but this game is a brick breaking game with heavy influence from pinball and high score games like shoot-em-ups. 

The game is currently split into two adventures that feature different "tables" and brick styles. The first adventure has big bold bricks in a wide playing area, and the second has a more narrow playing area with smaller more traditional bricks. Each adventure has a choose your own route style stage select.

In Hot Spud there's a streak counter that increases every time a brick is destroyed, and resets when the ball goes out of bounds. At certain intervals the streak will cause a point multiplier to increase. This multiplier is applied to _all_ points earned, and can go as high as 10x. The streak even carries over between stages, so playing perfect and taking the long route will lead to the highest scores! You can also exit the game in between any stage and all progress will be saved for the next time you return.

There are several powerups in the game that are not yet explained, but the screen at the top will announce what they are when acquired which helps to learn. I will add explanations of them all soon though! This is pretty high up on my todo list. There are also coins, and an anti-coin that can spawn, along with several other obstacles like portals, warp pipes, moving objects, and bumpers.

Getting the game to this state was a monumental amount of work due to only my own mistakes. I learned a lot with this, took a very long break to practice on some smaller projects, and recently came back to this to try to finish it. I ended up doing a massive refactor just to keep the code in a manageable state, but I think it's been worth it!

Check out the 'how to play' menu for a quick rundown on the controls and game concepts. There is controller, and keyboard support at the moment. The menus are still a bit rough, but functioning. I would love to hear feedback about what people think as they play to help shape the rest of this game. Thank you for reading, enjoy!