Ricochet: Bricks & Balls

Drag to aim, let go, and a stream of balls tears into the board. Every brick takes one hit per ball, the number counts down, and the colour cools with it - magenta and red are the hard ones, teal is about to break. You read the colours, not the digits, because you only get about half a second between shots. After every shot a new row drops in and everything shifts down. You are never really fighting the bricks in front of you. You are fighting the ones behind them. The aim line is the honest part. It stops at the first thing your ball touches and refuses to guess any further, because the rest depends on what breaks. A line that promises a path the ball never takes is worse than no line at all. Two modes that reward opposite habits. Endless counts the rows you survive and wants a tidy board. Rush gives you ninety seconds, counts the bricks you break, and wants you firing without thinking. Green rings add a ball for the rest of the run. Circles scatter wider than flat bricks. Fast-forward at 1x, 2x or 3x, or recall a shot early.