Figlet Breakout

Play the demo!

What is Figlet?

Figlet is a tool for generating banners with ASCII characters. There are a large number of contributed fonts, all of which can be used to turn a banner into a game of break-out. For more information about figlet, see any of the following pages:

• http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Graffiti&t=Type%20Something%20
• http://www.figlet.org/

What is Figlet Breakout?

Creates a Breakout game from a Figlet ascii banner. (Demo)

Why?

Why not?

This is an old project that I had from awhile back that I dusted off to use as the winning screen for the site cmdchallenge.

Installation

bower install figlet-breakout

HTML for the game

See the example index.html.

<div id="breakout-box">
    <div id="msg-flash"></div>
    <div id="breakout"></div>
</div>

Initializing the Board

FigletBreakout.init({
    font_size:  8,     // font size for the bricks
    p_font_size: 12,   // font size for the paddle
    game_str: "Play Figlet Breakout!" // what text to display
});

Starting the game

Once the board is initialized it can be either call play() or reset()

Reset will return everything to the default settings:

FigletBreakout.reset();

Play will start the game:

FigletBreakout.play();

There are many other settings that can be overridden, auto word wrapping and line breaks are also supported. See the default settings