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Falling Block Game

"Simple and Polished" - Free Gamer

Falling Block Game is a free, open source block stacking game available for Windows and Linux. The object of the game is to move and rotate pieces in order to fill in complete rows. The more rows you clear at once, the more points you score!

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Releases: FBG2 v0.4 Released

2011-09-14T04:35Z

Improved special effects

Falling Block Game 2 v0.4 is now available for Windows and Linux:

This release includes the following new features:

Smoother special effects and graphical cleanup
Improved sound effects
Linux desktop entries and binary packages

As always, Falling Block Game includes high resolution graphics, background music, retro sound effects, customizable controls (defaulting to "z" and "x" for rotate and arrow keys for movement), joystick support, high scores lists, and two gameplay modes.

Falling Block Game's new buttery smooth special effects can be seen in the following gameplay video:

On a personal node, I'm proud to say that, after over 10 years of on-and-off development (mostly "off"...), Falling Block Game finally has all the features that were ever planned for it. Please give this release a shot and send along any bug reports. Once everything stabilizes, Falling Block Game will (finally) be declared complete!

Developing Falling Block Game from the ground up (twice) has been a great experience and I've learned a lot about writing/debugging cross-platform code, creating sound effects and 2D/3D graphics, promoting beta releases, and listening to feedback. Thanks for your support and I hope you enjoy playing Falling Block Game as much as I do!

If you'd like to keep up to date on my future work, check out the "Other Games" links on the left (namely Avoision). You can also head on over to the Radius Engine web site or follow @RadiusEngine. Most recently, I participated in last month's Ludum Dare 21 48-hour competition. Here are links to my entry and a post-mortem of the whole experience.

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Releases: FBG2 v0.3 Released

2010-12-27T04:13Z

Falling Block Game 2 v0.3 is now available for Windows and Linux:

This release is a minor update that adds background music by Vhiiula and fixes a few small bugs. The game is completely playable with multiple gameplay modes, customizable controls, high scores, etc.

By request, I've also added a simple zip file of the game for Windows (which can be used instead of the installer).

Releases: FBG2 v0.2 Released

2010-12-22T20:08Z

Row-Clearing Effects

FBG2 Main Menu

Falling Block Game v0.2 is now available for Windows and Linux:

New in this release:

Cleanup (a.k.a. "B-Type") mode (score as many points as you can in 25 lines with configurable "garbage")
Special effects and animations
Retro sound effects
Updated menu graphics

With this release, Falling Block Game 2 now has all of the important features of the original (along with many new features). The only remaining planned features are music and mouse support. Once those are done, Falling Block Game will finally be complete.

If you run into problems or would like to request a new feature, go ahead and open a new tracker item.

Releases: FBG 2 v0.1 Released

2010-12-12T23:28Z

Falling Block Game v0.1

Updated: Added download link for Linux version.

After about two and a half weeks of development (using the Radius Engine), an alpha version of Falling Block Game 2 is ready for download.

Download Falling Block Game 2 v0.1 for Windows

Download Falling Block Game 2 v0.1 for Other Platforms

The default controls (customizable from the "Options" menu) are:

Left, right arrow keys to move the piece
z, x to rotate
Down arrow key to drop
(The up arrow and enter keys also rotate the piece)

This is only an alpha version (it doesn't have all of the planned features yet), but here's what works:

"Survival/Endless" mode
High scores list
Updated graphics
Customizable controls
Integrated menu system

The following features are planned, but not yet available:

"Cleanup/B-Type" mode
In-game music and sound effects
Special effects/animations
In-game mouse support (allowing the game to be played using only one hand)

As always, if you run into any problems or would like to request a new feature, open a new tracker item.