Today we launch the much awaited CRUSHER update. This adds the new CRUSHER mode and a bunch of bug fixes and improvements.
The crusher brings a new intensity to the game forcing combat as the Arena is reduced in size every 15 seconds. Touching the arena wall whilst the crusher is crushing results in explosions! Go blast some blocks! Fixes ==== * Added Warning Sounds * Added Crusher Sound * Power Blocks Nerfed to 3 Power * Fixed Flashing Power Icon * Fixed Countdown Audio * Added Crusher Menu Option * Added Crusher Warning Message * Added Rounds Menu Option * Adjusted Warning Crusher Sprite * Added Select Icons To Options Menu * Added Audio Menu Integrated * Steamworks.NET * Tidied Scroller Layer * Tweaked Points Size Values * Fixed Stuck Buttons in Tutorials (A B) * Re-enabled Symbol Core for pipeline test * Unnity 5.4.1f1 Update * Updated Readme * PAX changes * Updated Rewired for Digital Joypads * Crusher working 6*15s * Reinstate crusher and fix restart issues * Fixed Tutorial * Balanced Audio * Added Crusher! * Added random soundtrack Music Playing in Menu * Added Trailer on idle

[ 2016-10-26 18:14:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Today we launch the much awaited CRUSHER update. This adds the new CRUSHER mode and a bunch of bug fixes and improvements.
The crusher brings a new intensity to the game forcing combat as the Arena is reduced in size every 15 seconds. Touching the arena wall whilst the crusher is crushing results in explosions! Go blast some blocks! Fixes ==== * Added Warning Sounds * Added Crusher Sound * Power Blocks Nerfed to 3 Power * Fixed Flashing Power Icon * Fixed Countdown Audio * Added Crusher Menu Option * Added Crusher Warning Message * Added Rounds Menu Option * Adjusted Warning Crusher Sprite * Added Select Icons To Options Menu * Added Audio Menu Integrated * Steamworks.NET * Tidied Scroller Layer * Tweaked Points Size Values * Fixed Stuck Buttons in Tutorials (A B) * Re-enabled Symbol Core for pipeline test * Unnity 5.4.1f1 Update * Updated Readme * PAX changes * Updated Rewired for Digital Joypads * Crusher working 6*15s * Reinstate crusher and fix restart issues * Fixed Tutorial * Balanced Audio * Added Crusher! * Added random soundtrack Music Playing in Menu * Added Trailer on idle

[ 2016-10-26 18:14:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

The illegitimate love child of Space Invaders and Tetris

Blockships is 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