User Tools

Site Tools


start

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.

blockout_master.jpg

Blockout!

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 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):

  • The Basic block set (7 polycubes):

The 7 polycubes of the basic block set can be assembled into a 3x3x3 cube: Soma cube.

  • The Extended block set (all 41 possible n-polycubes n∈[1..5]):

Blockout Writings

Official Blockout Versions

Commercial Blockout Versions, under a different Name

Blockout Clones

Blockout Variants

Blockout Experimental

  • QU4TRO high quality, polished 3D Tetris, featuring new approaches to 3D Interaction.

Other Blockout Sites

start.txt · Last modified: 2020/08/17 11:03 (external edit)