Here is my latest release, please give it a try (An Arkanoid/Breakout Clone)

Here is my latest release, please give it a try (An Arkanoid/Breakout Clone)
You can get it:

http://www.gamedev.net/community/gds...?projectID=595
http://www.libsdl.org/games.php?match_id=1092
or
http://www.conceptofzero.com/downloads/ZB05.zip

(i left out space in the help screen, use it to leave help or credits and also to launch the ball in the actual game)

Once I add an options menu it will be multiplayer, have sound, and will run in a window or fullscreen (they are all off while i add an options menu) And later on I'll implement the power up system.

the menu graphics seem a bit sluggish when i move my mouse over an option. other than that (and stuff you already addressed) it looks fine. good job :)

is it possible to make the playing area full screen? i don't like how big portions show the background image, as well as a status bar at the side of the screen. it would be more fun, imho, if more of the screen was dedicated to the actual game-play.

as for the fullscreen, that's how i originally designed it, but people told me to change it and add a display... i left the implementation so i could change that around, so in the future (if i get more requests to change it back the other way) I will probably make that an option.