Breakout in Python

Score

Lives

Bricks

Best

⌨️ Controls

← → or A D slide the paddle
The paddle also follows your mouse or finger across the field
SPACE launch the ball • P pause
R start a new game
🎮 Xbox controller? Just plug it in or pair it — the stick and D-pad are the arrow keys, A is SPACE, Menu pauses and View starts again

🎯 How to play

Keep the ball off the floor. You get three lives.
Every brick the ball touches disappears.
Clear all 35 bricks to win.
Where the ball lands on the paddle decides where it goes next — that is your steering.

🏆 Scoring

The top row is worth 50 points, the bottom row 10.
A perfect wall is 1050 points.
Hit the ball with the edge of the paddle to send it sideways at the corners.
The middle of the paddle sends it straight up — safe, but slow going.

🧑‍💻 This whole game is Python

There is almost no JavaScript on this page. The browser downloaded Pyodide — a complete Python interpreter compiled to WebAssembly — and then ran the .py files in funtime/pylib/. Python does the rules, the maths and the drawing.

File	What it does	Good functions to try re-writing
pylib/breakout_rules.py	The rules: the ball, the bounces, the bricks	`hits_rect`, `bounce_off_walls`, `bounce_off_paddle`, `break_bricks`
pylib/breakout_draw.py	Painting the wall — Python calling the canvas	`draw_brick`, `draw_paddle`, `render_game`
pylib/breakout_web.py	The glue: the keyboard, the mouse, the loop	`do_action`, `on_mouse_move`, `frame`

🔍 Compare the two versions. Open lib/breakout-rules.js and pylib/breakout_rules.py side by side — same ideas, two languages.

🛠️ Build it yourself: Build Breakout in Python walks you through the functions one at a time.

⚠️ If the game never starts: the page has to read its .py files, which a browser will not do for a page opened straight off your disk. Use the live site, or run python3 -m http.server in the project folder.