BrickWarrior, in a word, can be defined as: 'TREMENDOUS'. It simply cannot be boxed in by some stereotypical comment, as a 'mere computer game'. In fact, the only thing that has ever come even close is MacBrickout, except for the fact that MacBrickout runs on Mac's, while BrickWarrior runs on the far superior PC platform.

All right, maybe that was a bit biased :)
BrickWarrior started off in early 1998, when I discovered MacBrickout, and upon being told that we wouldn't be using the Mac's in year 12, some of my friends and I went about developing a version for the PC, so we could still (in a sense) play MacBrickout. Our initial mission statement for the development of BrickWarrior was to 'clone MacBrickout, and surpass it', and that mission statement is now being fulfilled.

BrickWarrior is a brick game, where the game screen consists of several rectangular 'bricks' on the screen, a ball, and a paddle (see images below). The player can control the paddle with his/her mouse and bounce the ball off it, and every time the ball hits a brick, that brick either disappears or gets weaker. The twist? If the ball goes off the bottom of the screen, you lose it. You start off with four balls (three in reserve and one in play).

Bricks:

Ball:

Paddle:

At the time of typing this, there are currently 90 levels in total in BrickWarrior, which are divided up into 3 episodes, with each episode containing 30 levels.

BrickWarrior has the following features:

• Powerups that fall when you destroy bricks
• High score table
• Save game capabilities
• 90 levels!
• Full-screen, 256 colour background images for each episode
• Every level from MacBrickout
• Many sounds (approx. 400Kb worth)
• DirectX 5 API support (DirectX 5 comes with Windows 98)
• Moving bricks!
• Comes with level editor
• Totally FREE!