Blockships

Imagine you're walking along a busy convention hall and wander past the dedicated indie section of the game stands. There's alot going on, but one stall catches your attention... a big screen and a few guys stood there. A charasmatic cheeky chappie on a PA system is explaining the controls to some players before looking around the room. "We need one more player!" he says with passion equivalent to a herald of the gods on mount olympus declaring the next ascendant of a mortal. You turn and raise your hand, can't be that difficult right? The lads eyes flare into life, "Yes sir. Right this way!" he says, ushering you into the spotlight, the gathering growing crowd ushering you forwards with applause. You take the controller, he rushes through the controls. "Well i'm gonna mess this up" you think fumbling the controls. The game begins, instantly you scramble to build a ship, "What am I dodging? What am I shooting? Who am I?" you think to yourself as you're eliminated by the man next to you. You look to the screen, these guys have you by the tail and you know it. There's no hope for you now. They're weaving, holding corners, dogding and diving.... How can you beat that? The round ends, you get back in the game. Another round, another loss. But you learnt that the green blocks give you power. Should have spotted that earlier right? You get into it, managing to take out two players, then that one guy gets you again. It's 2 rounds a piece, you're dead last but hey you're having fun right? You're dam right, that adrenalines flowing and your palms are ready to give up on that controller but never fear, You're in for the long haul! The round starts, if you're going out then you're gonna make sure they know you fought hard to get this far. One ship down, you're wiedling a comparable star destroyer at this point against the tiny interceptors, you destroy one more of them as they fall into line. You detach a block as the last intercepter out manouveres you... it's so close, the block swings. Blocking their stray rocket. A new tactic... You detach two points of your ship as you drop down, the block hits his core and the ship blows. The crowd go wild, your friend on the PA shouts in amazement as you take your first point. The crowd thought you were a gonner but not today zerg! The second round begins, you've scared them straight now. they're gunning for you. You get that speed boost, dodging your buddies rocket. Too predictable.. you dive into the gun and let loose a fire storm, he's always gone for power over speed. it's finally let him down, he hasn't got the skill to dodge your rockets. He falls. The PA goes nuts, you pick up his cannon and begin covering fire. Red block and blue block ignored you, they know eachother already and have been having a mini fire fight. Blue moves in for the kill, as your rocket plows through his defences and destroys his core. Red panics, and flies into the crusher. One more point. The PA is filled with the sound of amazement as the crowd are in disbelief, "YOU WERE A GONNER!" The PA rings out through the crowd. He asks you your name just before you start the round. Adding it to a board. The round begins, Your buddy tries to be eratic and flies up for more upgardes. But you have him now, the patterns are memorised. You fly up and grab the gun, hammering the shoot button for all you're worth. He crashes and burns. You detach your cannon and fly to the battling friends. They've teamed up, but never fear. Your star destroyer has it in hand, you unleash a barrage of missiles, Blue explodes and red is dodging debris and missiles left right and centre. He gets a lucky few shots, it's ok. You love the faster ships anyways, and dive towards his core. He's done for. You get the point, the crowd go insane and everyone shakes hands. You go to leave, the guy on the PA stops you and says "we'll be back soon folks!" as the crowd ramble. "Well done mate! You're in the finals!" he says. "What?" you ask, as he moves your name to the final leaderboards..... you walked into a tournament. But you were so caught up in the adrenaline of this finely master crafter 8 bit shooter that you didn't realise! THAT IS WHAT THIS GAME DOES TO YOU. You stand there shaking, it's surreal how much you've got into this game. You enter the tournament, and after everyone gets 2 points, you lose.... but you're still shaking. The dev shakes your hand and you leave. Still high on adrenaline you walk off into the sunset, ranked 4 on blockships in London.... And you're dam right I returned the next day to shake that devs hand again for that opportunity. This is what this game did to me.... and i'm still recovering.

It´s an really awsome Game and makes a lot of fun, and it makes even more fun when you play wih more Players. It´s still in a very early stage of development, there are no settings etc. but worth every penny. Also for me I have to use controllers because keyboard doesen´t work, at least for me. I would recommend this Game to everyone with friends, because right now you can´t play it alone. 10/10 Edit: Keyboard is working

First played this at a gaming event and thought it was a great party game. It has that sense of drama that all good party games need, players being able to come back from near defeat and then clinch victory. Also it's very easy to just pick up and start playing . The player selection screen is cleverly turned into a practice area before the match starts so any new people can get the hang of things very quickly. Recently downloaded so I could play some younger relatives aged 5, 13 and 16. All had great fun playing and requested it again. Will def play agian with friends/family especially as new content gets added.

I played this game in a tournament at I58 and also came back and back to the stall as it was highly addictive. I absolutely love this game and am going to buy it for my friends.

Super fun game to play, I found this at EGX. It's simple and fun, and when the online multiplayer hits I'll be playing it a lot more

V.good if you have someone to play with. Played it at gadget show live and loved it and then went on to win the game free. all it needs is multiplayer and it is perfect (Edit) so after over 2 years with no updates i would say this game is dead now. It looked so promising and it had so much wasted potential.

Great game, much fun. But just so that you now, there IS keyboard support, you dont need an controller adapter, or a controller at all, I just use two keyboards instead of one so that four people aren't crammed onto one. Here is a link to the keyboard controls: http://steamcommunity.com/app/504700/discussions/0/350540974002544648/

no single player mode

I got this game for free when I won the tounament at it's unveiling at The Gadget Show Live. It is a amazing game, but it needs online multiplayer as well as local.

Now this game... I'm so happy I went to EGX: just for finding out about this game. You will not find anothergame quite like this. It is so fun. The game is so well refined, being a bit fiddly to rotate blocks and remove blocks from corners of a cube structure. But this shouldn't push your choice away from it. If you think you could enjoy it, even if the features such as online multiplayer and bots arn't there yet, support it, buy it, try to get some friends to try it out with you. Bottom line is you won't regret backing this game as that £4.99 / $6.25 / €5.89 will aid these talented people form a full game of content. This game is amazing!!!!!! Why hasn't this been done yet, 90s?! what the hell where game companies doing?! So simple and yet so amazing.