# brik.ing

> A breakout game made of your own words. Type anything (or doodle something) and it becomes the wall of bricks, then break it with a paddle and ball. Free, runs in the browser, no account. Made by blnkhz (https://blnkhz.me).

## What you can do

- Type up to 40 characters, or switch to doodle mode and draw the bricks by hand (brush sizes 1, 2, 4 and 6, with erase and undo).
- Pick a font: fraktur (UnifrakturMaguntia), comic (Comic Neue) or mono (Space Mono, the default). Doodles have no font.
- Adjust the text size, its position, and the tile (brick) size.
- Pick a theme: holo (with an animated holographic gradient), mono (the default, black on white), blush, sage, lavender, dark, pool, smog or tomato.
- Turn on special tiles: tough (takes three hits), steel (unbreakable), bomb (blows up its neighbours), and capsules that drop when hit: multi-ball, wide paddle, slow ball, fast ball and extra ball.
- Choose how many special tiles there are: none, few, some, lots, or chaos (every tile is special). Their colours can also be hidden, so where they are is a surprise.
- Win by clearing every breakable brick: the board then spells out "woohoo".

Controls: move the paddle with the pointer or the ←/→ keys; click, tap or press space to serve; esc goes back to the editor.

## Sharing a board

The whole board (text or doodle, and every setting) is packed into the link, after the #. There is no server or database, and nothing typed or drawn is stored anywhere else. The share button copies the link, or opens the share sheet on phones.

Boards can also be described in plain words in the query string:

https://brik.ing/?text=hello&font=mono&size=80&pos=30&tile=150&specials=tough,bomb&density=lots&hidden=1&seed=42

- text: up to 40 characters; a | marks where a word may break onto a new line and is never drawn
- font: fraktur, comic or mono
- size: 30 to 100 (percent); pos: 0 (high) to 100 (low); tile: 50 to 300 (percent)
- specials: a comma-separated list of tough, steel, bomb, multi, wide, slow, fast and life, or all, or none
- density: none, few, some, lots or chaos
- hidden: 1 hides the special tiles' colours
- seed: 0 to 65535, where the special tiles land

## Embedding

Any board can go on another website in an iframe. In the app, options → embed opens a dialog with a live preview and the code to copy:

<iframe src="https://brik.ing/?embed&theme=sage&text=hello" title="brik.ing: hello" width="100%" height="480" style="border:0" loading="lazy"></iframe>

- ?embed turns on embed mode: just the board and a play button, no editor.
- theme sets the embed's theme; mesh=1 animates the holo theme's gradient (off by default in embeds).
- The plain-words parameters above work in embeds too.
- The embed tells the page around it what happens, with postMessage: { source: 'brik.ing', event: 'start' }, then { source: 'brik.ing', event: 'win' | 'lose', broke, total }.

## Privacy

Visits are counted with Google Analytics only if the visitor agrees in the cookie banner. Even then, it only gets the page address without the board, so what anyone types or draws is never sent. Embeds never load it.

## Links

- [brik.ing](https://brik.ing/): the game
- [blnkhz.me](https://blnkhz.me): the maker's site