Graphicless Breakout

Managed to hit the ball in time, once I clear the level, the ball doesn't follow direction, it resets towards bottom right again, and I can't get there in time..

Couldn't see your code, but why not try to give the tail of the ball(those black bricks followed the ball) a transparency fade out? I thought that could be better.

To make the paddle change the ball angle, change the act to this: public void act() { Actor paddle; Trail trail = new Trail(); getWorld().addObject(trail, getX(), getY()); setLocation(getX() + xSpeed, getY() + ySpeed); if(getY() > 398) getWorld().removeObject(this); else if((paddle = getOneIntersectingObject(Paddle.class)) != null) { xSpeed = xSpeed + (getX() - paddle.getX())/10; ySpeed = (ySpeed - ySpeed * 2); } else if(getX() > 398) xSpeed = -xSpeed; else if(getX() < 2) xSpeed = -xSpeed; else if(getY() < 2) ySpeed = -ySpeed; else if(getOneIntersectingObject(Brick.class) != null) ySpeed = (ySpeed - ySpeed * 2); }