MadCowBalls2

I've posted a review of the game over on Steam which you can see HERE  

I will be updating it at some point in the not too distant future once I've got several hours of game play under my belt as the review  needs tidying up and  adding some additional information.  

I'm impressed by the fact you've obviously spent a lot of time on this labour of love and to be honest and  also very surprised that it  doesn't have more reviews;  apart from mine,  I only counted three others (all of which were short but  positive).  For a breakout with so many original features it deserves a much wider  audience, especially as its dirt cheap as well.  Apart from   games on sale, it's among the cheapest games on Steam.

I'd love to see a re-release of this game but with  much better graphics.  If that was possible, I reckon this game would be worth  a lot more money and would also be very popular; especially among  those who, like me, love breakout/arkanoids.  There has been a drought on breakouts for the past  decade, with  only rare releases every so often.  

As I mention in my Steam review; apart from one game called Breakquest, which has beautiful graphics and 100  original looking  levels (each level looks totally different from the previous one with respect to brick types) I've never come across any other game that has so many  original features and  such a large number of  power-up's.  I'm very very very  impressed.

Please do consider the above idea.  Giving the bricks  a fresh and more modern  look (including the power-ups etc) would  be amazing.

Thank you for releasing this excellent game.  :)

Good luck with any future game project you may be involved in.

Well, it took two years to reply, but I'm pleased to say this game works perfectly now.  It's a very unusual  breakout; which is my  main requisite for buying  new breakouts these days  because I have hundreds of this genre collected over the years since I first purchased one back in the early 90's.

I do intent  writing a review of this game over on Steam at some point (again, when I get the time;  at the moment I'm trying to arrange a visa to visit my family in Australia; I've just lost my uncle  a few days ago and want to attend the funeral).    

I'll also be recommending this whenever their is a game given away via the game giveawayoftheday   project site, where I often post reviews of games.  whenever a breakout is given away I tend to post  recommendations  for other breakouts to check out. This will be included from now on.

:)

Stay safe 

Thanks for the information.  I'll   try   your suggestions  then report back to you.  I'm very busy at the moment, so it'll probably be later this week at the earliest.  Regards Whiterabbit

p.s. I emailed a reply as well.

I purchased this via Steam  when it was released as I love breakouts; but I  cannot get the game to work.
  
All I get is the installer window (see attached image) with the two Start buttons for Arcade and normal play plus the other  buttonssuch as Options,  Exit etc, but none of the buttons work.  I've tried every  key on my keyboard and my mouse to no avail. 

To the developer Martin, please help.  You can email me on Whiterabbit-uk@hotmail.co.uk

Regards Stephen Brown aka Whiterabbit-uk

p.s. I've  validated all the files and they work.  My system runs Win 10 Pro