Blast Heroes (early proof of concept)

EDIT: updated the build with a couple QoL changes and some fixes

• changed the controls for shooting and using abilities
• improved the aiming by holding down shift to make minute adjustments
• replaced the duplicate level with a new one
• moved around and added a few abilities
• added a cooldown to the active abilities
• (tried) limiting the framerate
• increased the default resoution and made the window resizable

Thanks a lot for playing and for the feedback, I really appreciate it!

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Blast Heroes is an arcade puzzle game with an rpg-like twist. It can be described as a mix of Brick Breaker and Billiard with a touch of Puzzle Bobble. 

You shoot balls into the board with the goal of destroying all the enemy blocks. The balls bounce around and against each other, creating chain reactions and chaos! If a ball can bounce its way back to the 'safe zone', it can be shot again and again. When none of the balls you shot can return to the safe zone, the turn ends and the balls all return to the cannon area.

As for the rpg-like twist: the balls you shoot are Heroes, and the blocks you destroy are monsters. Heroes and monsters both have stats, and when thw two collide, they both take damage until either runs out of HP and dies. 

Heroes also have skills that activate under certain circumstances:

• active skills require the press of a button 
  • ex: the knight slashes his sword dealing damage in front of him
• -passive skills are automatic
  • ex: the berserker can run through crates and defeated enemies insead of bouncing off
• party skills give a bonus to the entire party
  • ex: when the wizard is in the party, each hero gets a DEX buff (making it more likely to dodge damage in combat) 
• ball-hit skills activate when a ball hits another ball
  • ex: when the healer hits another hero, the latter gets healed

By making use of these skills, the player can create chain together kills or get out of a sticky situation.

This build only contains a handful of short levels and many features are missing, but hopefully it should serve as a good enough itroduction to the game's core gameplay.

This is a very early prototype. I'm looking for all kinds of feedback and thoughts about it since I'm not very confident in its potential and I don't want to spend a lot of time expanding on it, adding content and such, only to realize the foundation just isn't fun.