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Hey, thank you very much for the detailed feedback and for playing all the way to level 21. That genuinely made me happy!

About the aiming line: while developing this, I tested many mobile brick breaker games and noticed that small trajectory mismatches were surprisingly common. Later I understood why. Unity’s collider physics and a manually drawn aim line do not calculate collisions in exactly the same way. The line is strict and linear, while the ball and brick colliders calculate collisions between shapes with actual size, especially around corners. I spent quite a lot of time improving it, and the current version is much more accurate even with several zigzag bounces. You would need to see the earlier versions to understand why I was so happy with it :D Still, corner cases can remain.

The game was originally developed for Android in portrait mode. I later made a WebGL version because it was much easier to share it as a portfolio project and receive feedback. That is why fullscreen desktop resolutions can cause some layout problems. I am not sure whether I will have time to fully polish the desktop fullscreen version before starting my next project, but I at least want to fix the mobile edges, since playing it on a phone feels more enjoyable to me.

You are also completely right about the ball count and brick durability increasing together. I noticed the same thing while testing other games in this genre. Mobile versions usually solve it with bombs, lasers, temporary extra balls, or purchasable power-ups. Since I did not add those additional systems, the progression can feel a little neutral even though the numbers increase.

The X2 Power was designed to add some strategy. You first unlock it by reaching the Great Shot threshold, and then you can choose which later turn to use it on. Since the ball position and board situation change after every turn, choosing the right moment can make a large difference. It doubles the damage of every ball for that turn. There is a popup when it is activated, but it seems the mechanic still needs a clearer explanation.

The shot messages are also connected to performance:

• Nice Shot: at least 2× your current ball count in damage
• Great Shot: at least 4×, and it unlocks the power if it is not already available
• Magic Shot: at least 6×

So they show how efficiently your balls performed during that turn, rather than being purely decorative. I also used this efficiency metric while designing the difficulty curve. For example, around level 10, each ball is expected to produce at least about 2.7 hits worth of damage per turn. By level 30, that target rises to around 10.8 per ball. Since the player has 68 balls there, the expected turn damage is roughly 734 or more. The idea is that later levels require better angles and more repeated bounces, rather than only giving the player more balls.

I already knew the game still had some clarity and polish issues, but feedback like this is exactly what I needed. It is surprisingly difficult to know which details deserve the most attention without seeing how other players understand the systems. Thanks again for the careful testing!