About Pixel Breaker
What Is It?
A paddle game where the bricks are tiny. The wall is 7,000 pixels, and the ball is just one more pixel. Whenever a flying pixel hits the wall, it knocks one of the wall's pixels loose, and that one starts flying too. One pixel turns into two, two turn into four, and before long the whole wall is coming apart in a storm of color.
How to Play
Tap or click to launch the ball. Then slide your finger, or move your mouse, and the paddle follows. On a phone you can slide along the strip under the field, so your finger doesn't hide the paddle.
Every pixel you catch goes back up and knocks another one loose. Pixels that get past the paddle are gone. When the last one has dropped out of the bottom, you launch your next ball, and you have three.
With a keyboard, press Tab to get to the field. The left and right arrow keys (or A and D) move the paddle, and Space launches.
Why It Explodes
At the start, it's hard work. Each pixel you catch only adds one more, and there are only a few to catch. But the more pixels there are, the faster they multiply, and the wall gets full of holes.
A pixel knocked loose inside a hole doesn't always get out cleanly. It bumps into the sides of the hole and knocks more pixels loose, which bump into more. Once a few holes go off like popcorn, there are pixels raining down everywhere, and the paddle catches plenty without even trying.
There's a gap at the very top, too. A pixel that breaks all the way through the wall bounces along the top of it, knocking pixels down into the wall from above.
The Walls
Each game picks one of five rainbow walls: stripes, a corner-to-corner rainbow, rings, a pinwheel or waves. Every pixel is a little lighter or darker than its neighbors, so you can see them all. A pixel keeps its color when it comes loose.
Best Score
Clearing the whole wall beats not clearing it. After that, a faster clear beats a slower one, and more pixels beats fewer. The clock only runs while pixels are flying, not while a ball sits on the paddle.
Your best game is saved in your browser, so it sticks around between visits. The button below erases it. It asks first, because this can't be undone.