Krakout: Game graphics

Loading screen

The picture loaded into screen RAM before the game starts.

Title logo

The KRAKOUT wordmark on the front-end title screen, a 14-column by 3-row block of 8×8 cells. The cell bitmaps are stored in order, and the per-cell attributes that give the wordmark its color follow them. The render below reads both:

Character font

The game's own 8×8 character set, shown here from 0 to Z. The font entry charts every glyph against its character code.

Player bat

The bat in its normal, expanded and missile forms, and the missile shot.

normal bat

expanded bat

missile bat

missile shot

Ball

The ball.

Walls / playfield frame

The indestructible border around the brick interior. It is built from tile glyphs. The colors below are the ones the game writes.

Side wall

The band down the edge opposite the bat. It has the same pattern and colors on either edge. Within the band the left column is bright cyan and the right bright green. The band repeats every 8 rows. One period is rendered here:

Top / bottom strip

The strip along the top and bottom edges. On both edges, its upper row is bright cyan and its lower row bright green. It is five segments. Each opens on a post cell, closes on an end cell, and holds plain cells between them. The second and fourth segments also hold two cells of a second fill. Rendered here is the center segment, both rows:

Corners

The four corner blocks, all bright cyan. Rendered here as they sit on the playfield:

Bricks

The brick field is a 9×9 grid of bricks. A brick is a 2×2 block of tile glyphs plus one color. Each design appears in up to seven inks, and the brick fixes its ink. The table below shows each design once. The tile-glyph groups entry renders each one in every ink it takes.

Design	Slot codes	Class	Colors (inks used in levels)
solid	$04–$50	1, 7–15	blue, red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white
window	$51–$57	1	blue, red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white
rounded	$58–$5E	1	red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white
ornate	$5F–$65	1	red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white
hatched	$6D–$73	1	red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, white
golden	$01	2 (top-left $59)	cyan
silver-1	$02	3 (top-left $5F)	cyan
silver-2	$03	5 (top-left $63)	cyan

Shatter – the animation a brick plays as it is destroyed. It is the plain shatter in the break-animation table. The brick's design is gone from the first sub-frame. All four quadrants take the same tile.

Golden-brick twinkle – the golden brick's idle flash.

The omitted angry-face brick and golden-brick gleam are shown under Unused resources.

Prizes

The reveal – the animation a prize brick plays as it gives up its prize. Every prize plays it; only the glyph left in the cell at the end differs, as the glyphs below show.

Letter	Tile(s)	Prize, with its effect
S	$6C	Safety net
G	$79	Glue
B	$7D	Bomb
M	$81	Missile
E	$85	Expand
D	$89	Double bat
x2	$8D	Double score
X	$91	Extra life
animated	$95–$A4	Slow ball

Inhabitants and the ball gem

The objects a level spawns during play, ordered by the level whose wave script first spawns each.

face monster

debuts at Level 1run by its handler

Wanders at random. A ball hit destroys it.

hive

idle

spawn burst

debuts at Level 3run by its handler

Wanders sideways and homes on your bat's row. Spawns bees.

ball gem

debuts at Level 4run by its handler

Wanders. A hit from ball A puts ball B in play.

bee

a level spawns it from Level 4run by its handler

Flies across at your bat and stings it. A sting freezes your control of the bat until the last ball in play is lost or the next level starts. A hive spawns it from Level 3.

diamond

debuts at Level 6run by its handler

Homes on the ball.

bowling ball

debuts at Level 8run by its handler

Homes on your bat. When it reaches the bat, the bat locks for a moment, and the bowling ball is gone.

warp gate

debuts at Level 8run by its handler

Sits in your bat's column. Reach it with the bat to skip levels. The ball destroys it.

hockey mask

armed with a comet

unarmed

debuts at Level 11run by its handler

Travels in a straight line, and turns only at walls. Drops a comet while you hold fire.

capsule

debuts at Level 12run by its handler

Wanders until it walks into a brick, which ends it. The brick takes a hit: a golden brick survives and a silver brick steps down. An orb that gives up becomes one.

orb

hunt

chew

spit

spat-out ball

debuts at Level 13run by its handler

Hunts the ball, catches it, chews it, and spits it out over your losing edge: the ball is lost. If it cannot catch the ball in time, it turns into a capsule.

visor

debuts at Level 15run by its handler

Sits still for a while, then homes on the ball.

dart

debuts at Level 17run by its handler

Wanders. When the ball destroys it, the other inhabitants freeze for a while.

starburst

debuts at Level 21run by its handler

Wanders. A ball hit knocks it into a slide along the ball's heading, through bricks – golden included. The slide ends at a wall, past your losing edge, or when a ball hits it again.

H-rotor

debuts at Level 24run by its handler

Travels in a straight line, and turns only at walls.

wheel

debuts at Level 25run by its handler

Bounces off walls and bricks, and zig-zags up and down as it goes. When one spawns, wheels fill every free inhabitant slot.

comet

a level spawns it from Level 52run by its handler

Falls straight down until a wall or a brick stops it. A hockey mask drops it while you hold fire, from Level 11. From Level 52 the level also spawns it on its own.

UFO

run by its handler

Never appears. The shipped game has no script that spawns it.

Shared animation

Every animation here is a table of frame pointers, and a sprite listed twice in a row in its table holds twice as long. The ball-gem animation is one such table.

Inhabitants and the ball gem spawn in the spawn flash. A comet that a hockey mask drops skips it and appears at once. An inhabitant destroyed in play dies in the death burst.

spawn flash