Arkanoid in 3D. My university computer graphics project

Content

There is a playfield with rainbow rows of blocks, a paddle and a glowing ball. The camera follows the ball. The ball bounces off the paddle depending on which part of the paddle it hits, and every destroyed block makes it a bit faster.

Asteroids fly in from outside the walls and destroy blocks on contact. Broken blocks explode into glowing particles with positional sound: bounce, glass break and explosion.

We move the paddle with the mouse. The buttons and keys do the rest: pause [p]/[SPC], reset [r], and row count from 1 to 18 with -/+. The HUD shows the score and the ball speed. Clearing all blocks wins the level with more rows, losing the ball ends the game.

History

I made it in January 2025 in about 10 days. I started with the playfield, the paddle bounce and the setup, then split the code into files. Then I added the explosion effect with the block color, the skybox, asteroids with their collisions and the sounds with async loading. I finished with the wall texture, the ball-following camera and the collision fix.