WDC World Ocean Day Charity Sale

We are excited to announce that we are supporting WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Ocean Day! The WDC World Ocean Day Sale starts today and runs until 12th June, 10am PDT 2025, and you can save a fin-tastic 60% off Rocket and 70% off Drop It: Block Paradise. We will also donate 50% of our net profits to WDC to support their conservation work.*

Who are WDC?

WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation are the leading global charity dedicated to the protection of whales and dolphins. Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear, pollution, captivity and hunting and whaling. They bring together, and work hand-in-hand with, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins. Their mission is to reverse the global decline of whale and dolphin populations by creating safe seas for these majestic beings. And their vision is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

What is ghost gear?

Ghost gear is fishing gear that has been lost or abandoned at sea. Its a deadly menace to whales, dolphins and other marine life. When a whale or dolphin gets tangled in it, it can kill them in the most horrific way, by preventing them from getting to the surface to breathe. Or they can carry it for days, weeks or even months suffering a slow and painful death as it cuts into their skin, restricts their movement and hampers their ability to hunt and feed. But its difficult and expensive for fishers and other ocean users to dispose of gear they find at sea, or even to responsibly get rid of their own gear at the end of its life. Did you know that about 1/3 of marine litter found in European seas is discarded fishing gear? That's estimated to be over 11,000 tonnes entering the sea each year! It is a massive problem and so WDC are working on some innovative solutions.

How your support will help this year

By purchasing games from this years World Ocean Day sale, you will help WDC continue their global conservation work, as well as their ghost gear removal project, funding 10 missions for divers to remove lethal entanglement hazards to marine life (and scuba divers) from reefs, seabed and shipwrecks in UK seas. Whales and dolphins are awe-inspiring, intelligent beings. The ocean produces more oxygen and absorbs more carbon than all of Earth's forests combined, and whales help it flourish. Yet 300,000 whales die in fishing gear every year. If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here: https://whales.org/ Keep up to date with all the awesome gaming activities WDC does by signing up to their mailing list here: https://games.whales.org/#newsletter And you can find many other amazing games in the sale here: https://bit.ly/WODSale25 Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC! *50% of our net revenue from this sale (after Steam platform fees) will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. WDC is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705).

[ 2025-06-05 17:00:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Why Builder Edition and what is different about it?

Drop It: Block Paradise! Builder Edition is a free spin off of this game. It's focus is on community built levels allowing players to make and play online levels for free. Think of Builder Edition as a nice complement to the main bringing in some fresh new created levels for all to play.

New Demo Information

The Demo for Drop It: Block Paradise! Builder Edition has been updated, just in time for Steam Next Fest! Featuring 50 hand crafted puzzle levels, ability to create your own levels and play other user created levels online! On March 21st 2025, Builder Edition will fully launch on Steam for free! This will contain even more levels, totaling 100 total to wet your puzzle itch, fun achievements to unlock and of course custom made levels made by you and others from around the world! Check out the demo for the new game before it launches: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2894250/Drop_It_Block_Paradise_Builder_Edition/

[ 2025-02-25 19:16:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Version 2.6.0 is now available to play!

• 10 New Bonus Levels - Bringing about total Bonus Levels to 100!
• 5 New Steam Achievements
• Unlockable Original Music from the Nintendo Wii U version
• New Settings Menu
• Ability to fine tune certain game mechanics such as bomb power & balloon speed. This is to help with levels that may be a little too hard due to these mechanics acting slightly different between computer to computer

[ 2025-02-02 19:30:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Version 2.5.2 is now available, this includes the following changes:

• Reworked Render Engine to improve smoother performance for monitors above 60Hz.
• Save File updated to be compatible with upcoming Builder Edition.
• Various game improvements and changes.

If you are curious about the upcoming Builder Edition, check it out below and feel free to wishlist. This will be a Free version that focuses on the Level Editor & Online Levels portion of the game, allowing new levels to be created and enjoyed by all! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2894250/Drop_It_Block_Paradise_Builder_Edition/ If you have any suggestions, bugs or issues - feel free to reach out via the Steam Forums or on Discord.

[ 2024-07-07 23:16:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Happy New Years!

Hope everyone had a wonderful 2023 and is looking forward to 2024. Just pushed out a small patch for the game, version 2.5.1, which fixes a few small items. See below:

• Fixed a bug with resizing the Ice & Wind Element in the Level Editor
• Fixed a bug with selecting a Level Size while in High Resolution
• Fixed a Leaderboard bug
• Added a Quit Game button to the Main Menu

[ 2024-01-01 23:06:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

A special wacky and fun Versus Mode is now available for Drop It: Block Paradise for Steam players. This adds a fun mode where you and a friend are pitted against each other to see who will get 10 points first. You can see a nice gameplay video of the game mode in action to see what it will be like. As you destroy blocks, they will appear on your opponents field to hinder them and vise versa. The goal is to have your Star safely on the ground first, but sometimes it's better to let your opponent fail and be knocked out instead. So grab a friend & two controllers and play a round! This update also updates the game with 15 brand new Bonus Levels. Also a big update that adds 2 new game mechanics to the game: Ice blocks and Wind elements. This should make things extra fun! This new update also now makes the game fully possible in Co-Op. So you and a buddy and can play together trying to solve the levels. Drop It: Block Paradise contains over 200 Levels, 90 Bonus Levels, Versus Mode, Online Levels created from other players like you, and more! [previewyoutube=pLhwbRx5Fp8;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2023-12-03 18:00:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Linux build for Drop It: Block Paradise and its demo is now available for all to try out! Got a Linux PC? Well, now you can try the game out natively!

[ 2023-10-22 16:33:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

A quick little patch has been released to help improve performance of the game for anyone with average or below computer specs.

[ 2023-05-19 22:03:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Welcome to the Leaderboard Update! This new update brings about several new changes, including 5 brand new Bonus Levels, 5 brand new Achievements as well of course the Leaderboards. These Leaderboard will bring about a healthy competitiveness to the game. As you play the various levels, you will start to earn points and rank up. These points are earned depending on the level you played, the harder the level, the more points you will earn. Go for #1! Of course it wouldn't be a fun update without new Bonus Levels. You can see one of them below. Don't forget to do all the Bonus Levels, as this will play into the new Achievements the game has to offer.

[ 2023-05-06 21:35:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Version 2.2.1 is now live! This update brings various improvements and performance updates to the game along with 2 major changes: Sound Settings Sound Settings can now be independently changed for Music / Sound Effects. So if you wish to turn down or off the Music but keep the Sound Effects, you can now do it. Native Controller Support! Our puzzle game now natively supports controllers. This means you can fully use your controller to play the game. It's fully integrated for the Xbox Controller, Nintendo Pro Controller and Playstation Controllers. Any generic gamepad controller should hopefully work as well out of the box. If it doesn't, please let me know in the Steam Discussions. Re-mapping a controller to mimic a Xbox controller might also help. If you happen to mapped a controller for the game to imitate Keyboard + Mouse settings, you will want to remove that and set it back to normal Gamepad mode. While the game is now fully Gamepad compatible. You will still need access to a Keyboard/Mouse to use any Input Text fields. These are mainly in the Level Editor & Block Database when naming or searching for a level. The main game itself won't require one.

[ 2023-03-31 18:54:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Version 2.1.6 is now live! This version brings about a smaller game size, closer to 350MB in size, as well as some various visual improvements and enhancements to the game.

[ 2023-03-08 03:17:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is a minor update that fixes a few small minor visual glitches as well as tries tor educe the overall size of the game.

[ 2023-02-19 21:24:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

After a lot of work, the Steam version of our game, Drop It: Block Paradise, is now live! Originally designed and made for the Nintendo Wii U eShop many years ago, this game has been worked on a lot over the last few months and years to add tons of features and improvements to it. Not to mention all the new content added to the game. In fact, we've been working on this game, on and off, for nearly 8 years now. Basic rundown the of the features of the game:

• 5 Unique Worlds
• 150 Levels to Challenge your Wits!
• Special unlocks: Achievements, Music & Art
• Bonus Levels: 50+ Brand New Levels
• Chaining: A new way to complete levels with quick succession
• Level Editor: Create and share your own unique levels with others!
• Block Database: Play more levels online from around the world
• Cross Place & Cloud Saves support

If you happen to own the game on Xbox One / Xbox Series consoles, you can continue where you left off with the Upload / Download Saves option. Also, although the game doesn't directly support a controller, I did share a Xbox Controller mapping of the game that you can use to help get started that helps get it close to the Xbox version of the game. I look forward to working on the game and adding new things. I already have ideas on new game mechanics and modes that could possibly be added.

[ 2023-02-13 23:48:49 CET ] [ Original post ]