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Blockland is a multiplayer computer game built on the Torque Game Engine, in which players build objects using virtual "blocks". Building is currently limited to 128,000 bricks per server to keep the game running properly. In 2008, Lego were in talks to Eric "Badspot" Hartman about selling Blockland.[1] It has been featured by The Screen Savers[2] and Shack News.[3] In 2005, when Blockland was in its beta development stage, Blockland was featured in an article on Globe and Mail in which Eric claimed 20,000 people had downloaded Blockland in the ten days since it "became big".[4]
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Structures can be built in a single-player or multiplayer setting. Using tools in the game, a player can add effects to bricks, such as lighting, specularity and animated particles, although these are not the only effects available. The game also features a variety of vehicles players can control, weapons, saving and loading of constructions, automated construction through macros and a mini-game system. The minigame system enables users to create configurable and self-contained game modes using options and then play in the world they create.[5] These can range from a simple deathmatch to a zombie survival game. This system can allow players on a server to be in a minigame while the others continue to build. It also features a downloadable modification that allows the player to build special blocks ranging from refrigerators to computer screens. Any player who buys the game can create a server. A standard server is able to hold up to 32 players.[6]
Blockland allows users to build with bricks of different shapes and sizes.
Blockland uses a trigger and event-based system that uses a scripting language to create basic interactive objects such as light switches, missile launchers or arcade-like games such as Pong. Players can also script triggers and events.[7] Blockland features an add-on system to aid users in managing custom content, such as weapons, vehicles, types of brick effects, player commands and game modes.
Large builds with thousands of bricks can exist on one server.
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