======Blockout Wiki====== **Welcome to the first dedicated Wiki for Blockout !** This Wiki is intended to collect all available informations about the Blockout Video game. Please feel free to add all sorts of informations related to Blockout, the //3D Tetris//. {{ wiki:blockout_master.jpg }} ====== Blockout! ====== {{quint2_scr2.png}} Blockout is a 3D Block dropping game, that greatly exercises the 3d spatial capabilities of the human brain. The Original Blockout is in fact a subgame of the board game [[http://www.gamepuzzles.com/polycube.htm|QUINTILLIONS]] and Super Quintillions, an invention of Kate Jones from http://www.gamepuzzles.com . Super Quintillions features the block shapes you very well know from Blockout. Originally, Blockout was a 2 player game played with the quintillion pieces. The target of the game was to place your own pieces and to "block-out" placement of the opponents pieces. In 1989, Blockout was designed as a Computer Video game by Aleksander Ustaszewski and Mirosław Zabłocki. Several Version for different Platforms were released. Among them are the widely known DOS, Atari and Amiga versions, developed by California Dreams, a subsidiary of LDW (Logical Design Works) Software, a California company (San José, actually almost all development was done in Poland, they might have an office in California only...). (stub. please complete..) More info at http://www.gamepuzzles.com/polyintr.htm#Blockout ===== Gameplay ===== The game allows the player to choose the set of blocks they will play with and the size of the pit. Pits range from 3x3x6 to 7x7x18, giving a total of 195 possible pit sizes (counting e.g. 3x5x6 and 5x3x6 as identical). Three block sets are available — flat, basic, and extended — making a total of 585 possible game modes. * The **Flat** block set (8 flat polycubes): {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p0.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p1.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p2.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p5.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p6.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p7.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p8.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p9.png}} * The **Basic** block set (7 polycubes): The 7 polycubes of the basic block set can be assembled into a 3x3x3 cube: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_cube|Soma cube]]. {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p5.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p7.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p8.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p9.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p32.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p33.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p34.png}} * The **Extended** block set (all 41 possible n-polycubes n∈[1..5]): {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p0.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p1.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p2.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p3.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p4.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p5.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p6.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p7.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p8.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p9.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p10.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p11.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p12.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p13.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p14.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p15.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p16.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p17.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p18.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p19.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p20.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p21.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p22.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p23.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p24.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p25.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p26.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p27.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p28.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p29.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p30.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p31.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p32.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p33.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p34.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p35.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p36.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p37.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p38.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p39.png}} {{http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/images/p40.png}} ===== Blockout Writings ===== * [[Blockout Game Guide]] by PARANOMIA ===== Official Blockout Versions ===== * [[DOS Blockout]] by California Dreams. * [[Amiga Blockout]] * [[Arcade Blockout]] The Blockout playable in Arcades worldwide * [[Lynx Atari Blockout]] * [[Sega Megadrive Blockout]] Blockout for the Megadrive console * [[3D Blockout]] for Palm PDAs by www.pda3dware.com - very accurate and perfect blockout! ===== Commercial Blockout Versions, under a different Name ===== * [[Geom Cube]] for Sony Playstation * [[3D Tetris]] for the Virtual Boy ===== Blockout Clones ===== * [[Flash Blockout]] programmed in Flash. Online Playable, with Highscorelists. * [[http://www.blockout.net/blockout2|Blockout II]] for Windows/Linux (DirectX/OpenGL) the currently most perfect Blockout Clone. * [[Java Blockout]] running in the Browser by Nerius Landys (thanks for www.blockout.net donation) * [[XBlockOut]] for Unix/Linux (X11) * [[BlockAway]] for mobile phones (J2ME) * [[FEItrix]] for Windows (DirectX). Though graphically nice, its missing some wall-kicks. * [[FredOut]] for Windows * [[Blockout Millenium]] * [[Blockout Resurrection]] * [[Gnome 3D Tetris]] for Linux running Gnome Desktop. * [[AresTris]] graphically impressive, but gameplay is lacking. DirectX 9 * [[Polycubes]] A nice OpenGL/OpenAL clone of Blockout (Windows) * [[SDLBlock]] Not very good one. * [[http://pblocks.com|Pblocks.com]] A flash version of blockout * [[http://tlogic.de/home/products.php?p=tblocks|TBlocks]] For mobile phones (J2ME) ===== Blockout Variants ===== * [[Sphere Out]] A spherical variant of Blockout * [[4DTris]] A 4D variant of Blockout ===== Blockout Experimental ===== * [[QU4TRO]] high quality, polished 3D Tetris, featuring new approaches to 3D Interaction. ===== Other Blockout Sites ===== - [[http://www.blockout.de|Blouckout Site by Uwe Gladasch (DOS Game)]] - [[http://www.3dtris.de/blockout_essay|Blockout Tatics by Igor Vukomanovic]] - [[http://ausserfern.at/pbeck/blockout|Blouckout Site by Peter Beck (Java Applet)]] - [[http://www.sonic.net/~fryman/blockout|Blouckout Site (DOS Game)]] - [[http://www.3dtris.de|3dtris - Blockout clone in flash with highscore list]] - [[http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/blockout.htm|Blockout site by Theodor Lauppert]] - [[http://jsoft.ws/index.php?key=Old%20Games^Windows^Block%20Out|Blockout by Jafar N.Aliyev(Jeff) (Win32 Game)]]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Virtual-Boy-Set.png