Blockships
The illegitimate love child of Space Invaders and Tetris. Blockships is a game about building a big bad ship and blasting your buddies’. A local multiplayer party game where you strike the balance between speed, firepower, and size. Build, blast, and rebuild your ship – all in the heat of battle.
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September 2, 2016
9 years and 336 days ago
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Positive25 reviews96.0%
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The illegitimate love child of Space Invaders and Tetris.
Blockships is a game about building the biggest baddest ship by blasting your buddies’ to bits and stealing their blocks - a local multiplayer party-arena game that challenges you to strike the right balance between speed, power, maneuverability, and of course fun! Build, blast, and rebuild your ship - all in the heat of battle.
"Why do do the bad guys always drop power ups?" Surely blasting to victory using the fallen remnants of your defeated foes would be more fun! Build up your core to take down enemy ships. Grab guns to Blast 'em to bits, add Engines to speed up and give them the slip - or ram them head on and expose their weaknesses. Or bolster your ship with Power Cells and grow to enormous size. Protect your Core at all costs!
Each ship configuration has strengths and weaknesses and is almost infinitely reconfigurable. Experiment with multiple different strategies and rapid reconfigurations to overcome enemy tactics. Beat their firepower with speed, and their speed with size in an infinite number of ship combinations - sometimes its full speed ahead, sometimes its cut and run, and victory can be yours balanced on the barrel of a Gun.
Credits:
Dave Cooper - Game Design / Game Dev / VFX
Emma Kantanen - Pixel Art
Glenn van der Geugten - SFX
David Origlieri - Music
Sujan McGlynn - Addtional Pixel Art
Blockships is a game about building the biggest baddest ship by blasting your buddies’ to bits and stealing their blocks - a local multiplayer party-arena game that challenges you to strike the right balance between speed, power, maneuverability, and of course fun! Build, blast, and rebuild your ship - all in the heat of battle.
"Why do do the bad guys always drop power ups?" Surely blasting to victory using the fallen remnants of your defeated foes would be more fun! Build up your core to take down enemy ships. Grab guns to Blast 'em to bits, add Engines to speed up and give them the slip - or ram them head on and expose their weaknesses. Or bolster your ship with Power Cells and grow to enormous size. Protect your Core at all costs!
Each ship configuration has strengths and weaknesses and is almost infinitely reconfigurable. Experiment with multiple different strategies and rapid reconfigurations to overcome enemy tactics. Beat their firepower with speed, and their speed with size in an infinite number of ship combinations - sometimes its full speed ahead, sometimes its cut and run, and victory can be yours balanced on the barrel of a Gun.
- Local Multiplayer
- Arcade Fun
- Lots of Blocks!
- Cores
- Power Cells
- Engines
- Guns
- More fun
Credits:
Dave Cooper - Game Design / Game Dev / VFX
Emma Kantanen - Pixel Art
Glenn van der Geugten - SFX
David Origlieri - Music
Sujan McGlynn - Addtional Pixel Art
