About Bounce Path
Bounce Path is a classic paddle-and-ball brick breaker, distilled into a mobile arcade game and quietly modernized with a CRT-style retro aesthetic and an anonymous global leaderboard. The paddle sits at the bottom, the ball bounces up the screen, the bricks come apart β the loop is the same one that has worked since 1976, because it still works.
The aim of the game is simple: keep the ball alive, clear every brick on the screen, and advance to the next level. Each level you clear becomes part of your record. The highest level you have ever cleared is what the leaderboard ranks players by.
There are no in-app purchases, no energy bars, no waiting timers. Bounce Path is free to play, supported by a single banner ad β no interstitials, no rewarded ads, no full-screen interruptions when the ball is about to drop. The game is intentionally minimal: paddle, ball, bricks, and a level number that keeps going up.
Key Features
Pure Breakout, Modernized
Slide the paddle left and right with your finger to bounce the ball up into the bricks. Every brick the ball touches comes apart. Miss the ball, and the round ends. Clear the bricks, and you advance to the next level. No story screens between rounds, no menus to navigate β just the next layout, immediately.
Global Leaderboard, Anonymous by Default
The first time you launch the game, the App quietly creates an anonymous identifier for you in the background β no email, no account, no sign-in. If you want to appear on the global leaderboard, type a nickname (1β12 characters). If you skip that step, you get an auto-generated placeholder name and your score is still tracked locally.
The leaderboard ranks players by their highest level cleared and shows a 2-letter region code derived from your device’s language and region settings. No GPS is used; no personal information is collected.
CRT Visual Mode
The game ships with an optional CRT screen effect β scanlines and the kind of phosphor glow that older monitors used to have. It is purely a visual filter; you can switch it off in settings if you prefer a flat modern look. Either way, the gameplay underneath is the same.
Haptic Feedback
The paddle gives a small tactile thump every time it makes contact with the ball. This too is optional β turn it off if you would rather not feel anything in your hand while you play.
Banner Ads Only, Nothing Else
Bounce Path uses a single banner ad to keep the lights on. There are no interstitial ads (the full-screen kind that interrupt you between levels), and no rewarded ads (the kind that ask you to watch a video for a continue). When the ball is in play, the game is yours.
Offline Once Installed
Game progress and settings are stored on your device. You do not need an internet connection to play β the only network call the game makes is to upload your best score to the leaderboard and to fetch banner ads. Lose signal mid-level, and the level keeps going.
How to Play
Touch the screen to control the paddle at the bottom of the play field. The paddle follows your finger left and right. Bounce the ball upward into the bricks, watch them disappear, and try not to let the ball fall past the paddle.
When you clear all the bricks on a level, the next level begins automatically. As you advance, the brick layouts get tighter and the ball behavior gets harder to predict. Your highest cleared level is what gets uploaded to the global leaderboard.
If the ball drops, the round ends and your run is logged. There is no continue button, no “watch a video to revive” β restart and try to beat your previous best.
Target Audience
Bounce Path is for anyone who grew up on Breakout, Arkanoid, DX-Ball, or any of the dozens of brick-breakers that have lived on every platform since the late 1970s β and who wants that same one-more-round arcade loop on a phone, without the modern mobile-game baggage. No accounts. No paywalls. No energy. No interstitial ads between rounds. Just the paddle, the ball, the wall of bricks, and a leaderboard that quietly tracks how far you got.
It also works as a short-session game for anyone who wants to fill three minutes between meetings or on a commute. A round is as long as you can keep the ball alive β sometimes that is twenty seconds, sometimes that is much longer.
Technology
Bounce Path is built with Flutter and runs on both iOS and Android from a single codebase. The global leaderboard is powered by Google Firebase: Firebase Authentication creates the anonymous identifier each device uses, and Cloud Firestore stores the leaderboard records (nickname, region code, best level, timestamp). The fonts the game uses at runtime are loaded from Google Fonts; ads are served by Google AdMob.
All local game state β current level, cleared levels, your nickname, your haptic and CRT preferences β is stored on your device in the App’s private storage area, and is removed when you uninstall. The full breakdown of what data the game touches lives in the privacy policy.
Get Started
Bounce Path is currently in development and will be released on iOS and Android. Once it goes live, links to download will appear here. Until then, you can read the privacy policy for an exact, line-item description of what the game does and does not collect.
Developed by Steven Huang at Atlantis Kid.