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Nice going!

It's not necessary to destroy invisible bricks in order to complete the level as long as they're still invisible. Once a brick has become visible it has to be destroyed.

Wednesday Treat

Debug Commands (a.k.a Cheats)

To apply debug commands, you need to edit StartFireQuark.bat. Commands are added to the end of the line, separated by spaces and can be added in any order. See the bottom of this post for an example.

• -m = Start muted.
• -i = Infinite lives.
• -l = Specify starting level. The following will start the game at level 6:
  

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  -l 6
• -p = Specify power-ups. This command forces the game to only produce the power-ups you specify, all with an equal probability. A full list of power-ups is below. The following will only produce fire quarks and bigger paddle power-ups:
  

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  -p FIRE_QUARK_SHORT SINGLE_BIGGER_PADDLE
• -f = Display frames-per-second counter.
• -w = Start game in windowed mode.
• -e = Start level editor (not fully functional in this release).

Power-ups:

• SINGLE_PADDLE_GROW
• SINGLE_STICKY_PADDLE_SHORT
• FIRE_QUARK_SHORT
• SLOWER_BALL
• SINGLE_PADDLE_SHRINK
• FASTER_BALL
• CRAZY_BALL
• ALL_PADDLES_GROW
• SINGLE_HUGE_PADDLE
• SINGLE_STICKY_PADDLE_LONG
• ALL_STICKY_PADDLES_SHORT
• MULTIBALLS
• EXTRA_LIFE
• FIRE_QUARK_LONG
• SNAIL_BALL
• MANY_MORE_ORBS
• PADDLE_LASER
• ALL_PADDLES_SHRINK
• SINGLE_TINY_PADDLE
• CRAZY_PADDLE_SHORT
• ROCKET_BALL
• QUICKLY_ACCELERATING_BALL
• ALL_HUGE_PADDLES
• ALL_STICKY_PADDLES_LONG
• FIRE_QUARK_EXTRA_LONG
• SUPER_MULTIBALLS
• SUPER_PADDLE_LASERS
• ALL_TINY_PADDLES
• ALL_CRAZY_PADDLES_SHORT
• SUPER_QUICKLY_ACCELERATING_BALL

Example

The example below will start the game with infinite lives, the FPS counter displayed and with only the ALL_TINY_PADDLES and EXTRA_LIFE power-ups:

Really nice little game but I'm crap at it. Could be a bit more forgiving with e.g. collectable lives or some continues.

You do occasionally get extra life power-ups but they are, admittedly, quite rare. Glad you like it, though! What level did you reach? You know you want to be on that leader board.

I got to level 2 before it drove me mad and I had to go to bed.

I'm sorry Pilcho, I could only get to level 3. I will try again soon. Must best Gorrable's score.

I'm also using the old laptop touchpad excuse by the way.

Level 5 was my best - I'm using my laptop's touchpad as well as my usb mouse has disappeared.

Fire Quark feature here!

Hey pilch I was working on putting together a mac packaged version of FireQuark for you, i'm nearly done, got it all working, just wondering if you have an icon I could put on for you? Otherwise I'll just upload the finished Mac app and you can advertise as having ~~Mac Support~~

So yeah, got an icon?

Do you know, making an icon was always on my big bumper list of things to do, but I never actually got around to it. Thanks very much for doing the MAC version - very much above and beyond the call of duty! I'll try to get around to doing the icon today or tomorrow. Shouldn't really take long.

Also, what dimensions do you require?