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Blockland - Play with Legos on Your Computer

blockland.us — Looking for a free game that's fun and lets you build with Legos? Then Blockland is the game for you!

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  • madformadness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Now you can build huge lego creations without family members destroying them!
    • brokekneck, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2its is pretty sweet.
    • baldr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5This game was great when it came out, and it could have continued to be great if the creator didn't become a sell-out. Anyone remember when Kevin Pereira featured this on G4, and every server was overloaded with people destroying others' structures? This is game is best for lan parties, because you get to talk to other people about what you are building easier.
    • skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I always had the best lego ship when I was little but my older brother would always come up with something stupid that would beat me every time.
    • JeremyL, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1Just wait. Someone will come a long and write a virus to destroy all your block buildings ;)
    • gravis86, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Free?

      FTA:
      February 11, 2007

      That is the estimated release date for the shiny new version of Blockland. It will be for sale right here on the internet for the low low price of $19.95.

      As it is now the game is quite playable and fun, but I really want to take the time to tighten everything up and ensure a quality release. I also want to make sure that my ducks are all in a row legally.
    • edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If you want to subsequently build in legos what you've built virtually, try LDraw (nee LCAD).

      Free to boot.
    • leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15What's wrong with charging for something this guy obviously spent an enormous amount of time creating?
    • gravis86, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16@ leobaby

      There's nothing wrong with charging. But the description says free:

      "Looking for a free game that's fun and lets you build with Legos? Then Blockland is the game for you!"
    • LegalSatire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The current version available on the site is free, the final release (which runs a lot smoother) will be released soon for the price listed. I met the creator two nights ago, and they were really putting it on hold to make sure it's completely polished for release and running smooth as silk. As far as "sold out" as someone said above, what the heck are you talking about? The creator is having it produced through GarageGames - a smalltime company that makes some great things.

      Looking forward to the final release.
    • Hippo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Dude, I remember The Screen Savers showing off this game. I used to play that game all the time and made a few hacks and worked on add on's for it called AiO and AiO-r. This is old, old news but the game is awesome. This story should hopefully get more people to start (or re-start in my case) playing the game again. *fires up blockland* ... I'll see you on the servers
      - PhatHippo
    • daridave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yeah, I'm willing to pay for that... but what are the tilesets?

      Better be big, or else... no deal.
    • mocheeze, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Just thought I'd let you guys know that most people run the "Return to Blockland" expansion mod for Blockland. If you try joining [RTB] servers while using the vanilla Blockland install, then your loading screen will hang forever. Get RTB at http://returntoblockland.com/download.htm . RTB gives you more colors, bricks, accessories, game modes, server options, admin abilities, protection schemes for your bricks (no more random assholes destroying your builds), more maps, and a bunch of other stuff that I'm not going to bother listing. :P

      Full disclosure: I help work on RTB. :)
    • Brishen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Quite a lot of 0's in that version number
    • H3LLSL337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Doesn't work on Vista :(
  • Okari, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3I'm hoping it's just me, but the thing crashed my comp. It almost completely killed my hard drive.
  • cruzlee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This game sucks up till now. I ran around a little, but it's still far from finished.
  • mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Works great in Wine if anyone with something other than Windows wants to play with it.
    • Zerosan, on 07/14/2008, -0/+0And there is also a Mac version of it.
      I still hope Badspot will release a native Linux version, at least for the dedicated server.
  • spd998, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5return to blockland and blockland aio (all in one) are better.
    • Zerosan, on 07/14/2008, -0/+0This has changed, there is Blockland Retail now, well, it's not for free, but it's worth it's money, hit over 4000 players some time ago.
  • Rambyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Sweet! No more sore thumbs!
  • drlha, on 10/12/2007, -16/+14I love the way Americans say "play with Legos" instead of "play with Lego". ;)
    • BoomShockaLocka, on 10/12/2007, -15/+14Each piece is a "Lego" genius. Hence playing with multiple pieces being referred to as "playing with Legos"
    • stupidbrowner, on 10/12/2007, -17/+11I don't think it's Americans. I think it's just generally ignorant people.

      Edit: And just to correct boomshockalocka (ie one of the ignorant people) Lego is like fish and sheep. Plural and singular are the same.
    • GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Surely you mean "play with LEGO® Bricks" :)

      @boomshockalocka: hey genius - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego#The_Lego_trademark
    • kayosthery, on 10/12/2007, -13/+11People usually use more than 1 block....hence, "Legos". You would have to have a pretty wild imagination to be entertained by A LEGO.
    • BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8I'm not sure, but a lego in the US usually refers to one small building block, when we play with "legos" that is plural, meaning more than one. If we where playing with lego, wouldn't that be just one block, or playing with the actual brand name "lego"? xl
      Edit- Sorry about late post
    • BoomShockaLocka, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Bryan.... prepare to be destroyed by the Lego Nazi's above. Your logic is to clear and simple for them.
    • luvkit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Clearly the plural of Lego is Legi.
    • Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8From the Wikipedia link above:

      "... many refer to the bricks themselves (collectively) as "Lego" or "Legos" (the latter term being common in US English, but rarely used in British English) ..."

      All you Brits whining about usage can stick it up your bloody arse. You don't hear me smacking you down for calling an elevator a "lift," do you?
    • Kuipo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I believe what you are referencing is the line on wikipedia that says: "Legot" (or "leegot"), plural form of "lego" (or "leego") is used as a Finnish slang term for human teeth, because of the rectangular shape of the teeth. [citation needed]

      There are a few problems with this.. 1. It says right in the article that it needs citation. 2. The word doesn't come from the finish word Legot, it comes from the Danish leg godt, which is mentioned a few lines above in the wikipedia article. Therefor it is simply a word that was made by the company. Legos is perfectly fine to use in a country that refers to each brick as a Lego and pluralizes their words with an s.
    • GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Legos in Amerglish. Most of the rest of the world, including those who speak proper English, say "lego" for the singular and the plural.

      However, LEGO® themselves have said that it is an adjective, not a noun, therefore neither way actually makes much sense, as it's like saying "playing with red" (or worse "playing with reds"!). It should also be capitalised.
    • iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I wonder if that guy gets all pissed when someone asks for a kleenex when they really mean they need a tissue. Sorry chief, companies don't get to choose how language evolves, people do. So forgive me while I google something up about legos on yahoo while blowing my nose on this generic kleenex...
    • GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I duggs this arguments.
    • mrchopper, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2hey boomshockalocka; you mean "lego nazis", not "lego nazi's". that's a possessive apostrophe... and that's exactly why all you people claiming the plural of "lego bricks" is "legos" are wrong - because you know ***** about grammar. unfortunately an entire nation can be wrong... hate to bring it back round to nazis, after all.
    • numptydumpty, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4It's not 'legos' you moron americans.

      Don't you understand that you can't grasp 3 important things in the world?

      1. The correct use of the English language.
      2. The fact that guns are bad, mmmmkay.
      3. There are other countries outside of the US of A.

    • Tochi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Legos, Lego, LEGO® Bricks. It doesn't really matter in because these are Blockland blocks, not to be confused with the very copyrighted LEGO® Bricks.
    • lonnieh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"It's not 'legos' you moron americans...."
      i love reading posts from ***** like you, especially in an article thats all about having fun with virtual lego blocks.

      "1. The correct use of the English language."
      you are pretty naive to believe that YOUR chosen dialect is the end-all-be-all dialect of the english language. languages evolve, with or without you. deal with it, mmmmkay?
  • DigitalJester, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1How does this run in Wine?
    • BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1...is wine really that complicated?
    • TrueVox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It actually runs pretty slow. It swims a little better, if your wine glass is deep enough, but it still tends to get drunk after a little while.
  • JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4From the random quote on top left: "A million times better than that 'Tom Goes to the Mayor' show"

    Not that hard to do...ZING!
  • Scrib, on 10/12/2007, -36/+4Burried as lame for calling them ***** Legos

    THEY ARE LEGO, MULTIPLES OF THEM ARE NOT REFERED TO AS LEGOS.

    I bet you're American, aren't you?
    • swazooe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13nobody cares that you buried it.
    • jivemasta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Get a life. Nobody cares what the plural form is. You know what it means, I know what it means, everyone knows what it means. When everybody knows what a word means(gramatically correct or not) it becomes part of the language. An example, google, once a noun, a few people started using it as a verb, it caught on, it is now both a noun and a verb.
    • JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Just because it is different doesn't mean it is wrong. Languages change constantly based on daily usage. In America we tend to refer to things as their most popular brand, and append 's' when it sounds pleasant:

      Make me a Xerox of that.
      Play with legos.
      Pass me a Kleenex.
      I'll have a Coke. (even if it is Pepsi)


      These companies really don't like their product names being used like this because it degrades their copyright, but we don't really care and do it anyways.
    • Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@jivemasta

      I think the word you're referring to that "used to be a noun" is 'googol,' which is the name of a very large number. 'Google' is a trademark name for the popular search engine, though other uses include bowling a 'google' in cricket, and perhaps having a drink of water (1927 film "Dog Heaven").

      Use of the word 'google' as a verb has been discouraged by the company Google, in attempts to preserve their branding, and not become a generic term.
    • iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5haha. looks like scrib was the one buried for being lame =)
    • Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7'Goodbye' is actually a contraction / distortion of 'God be with you' . You'll notice in Shakespeare the phrase "god-b'wy" or things similar. You aren't going freak out everytime someone says Goodbye now are you?

      Language is constantly changing and that is one of the most beautiful things about it. It's funny how people who are usually language nazi's seem to have no actual instrest in studying it.
    • numptydumpty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1well done Scrib!
  • lordcanyon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this game was great when i first played it and still great today.
    i'd rather play it than any of those official lego games.

    i remember in a room one time we built a bridge of lego out the window that took over 15min of real time just to get to the end. it was funny at the time.

    oh and its one of those words that it doesnt matter which you say for plural both lego and legos can mean many, but lego can mean just one unlike legos.
    • Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In one of the very early versions, if you built a bridge out the window and up to the roof, there's some weapons/paint stuff floating in midair off to one side and some more scattered about the roof. We usually built a platform leading over to them so that we could gain access to them. Easier than trying to jetpack your way over there.

      Eventually I had some neat macros set up for that which would let me build the necessary bridges in just a couple of button presses. Very neat to play around with.

      Networked LEGO building? Winner!
  • OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What's wrong with just using LeoCAD, we've been using it for years. Runs on Windows and Linux, is open source and actively developed.

    http://leocad.org/

    although it's not really a game. it's more of a toy (virtualized legos)
  • TheADOGuy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Doesn't run in Vista. Dead to me.
    • nextlife, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Works fine for me in Vista...
    • BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Are you running the final version of Vista or still on Beta 1? :)
    • simondotcalvin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5But congratulations for the front row seat on the band wagon.
    • Vision2098, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You run Vista. Dead to me.
  • goodnewsevery1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Bah! Go straight to the LEGO source and get LEGO's own Digital Designer for FREE

    http://ldd.lego.com/

    And after you design your master piece you can one click ORDER all the pieces to make it in the real world.
  • lmadsen10, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Doesn't run on a mac. Dead to ME.
  • josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Blockland - Play with Legos on Your Computer!

    ...And then get fired.
  • cyberpope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember way back when they showed this on the Screen Savers.
    • tiny1001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ditto but i still log on to block land when im REALLLLLY bored.
  • nacharya, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1i think lego is the plural of lego, just like sheep. hmm inaccurate? lol
  • mjdjr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2what a ploy to get traffic. its not even out yet!
    • AshTR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How can it be a ploy to get traffic when I'm not the creator?
  • Cdog923, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33 years old, at least.
  • Fjinks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3NOTHING is cooler than building your own base from bricks... then deathmatch!!! Oh lawd I love this game. If it just weren't so buggy and unfinished. But a novel game concept nonetheless.
  • Dharmamooch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Damn. My work IT dept has it blocked.
  • markfulton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3 SecondLife.com is on an entirely different level than this. Higher learning curve for object creation, but the finished products can be absolutely amazing.
  • MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If you're a kid, you should be playing with real Legos, if you're an adult, you should know there's more important stuff to do. Like writing comments on Digg.
  • sloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I figured this would have been in retail by now, since the last time I played it was 2005 before it got super boring.

    I made a lot of cool buildings but until the retail comes out, it's just not worth it.
  • QUAINTMAN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0QUAINTMAN roolz blockland. Quaint Qrew FTW duderz.
  • bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Windows only? No thanks.

    If you're a small time developer keep cross platform in mind from the start.
  • deol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From the Screen Shots, it reminds me of Counter-Strike. Playing one of the de_rats maps back in the day.
  • imerlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Works on Wine, fairly entertaining.
  • timtimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Still looking.

    Enjoy.
  • nufoto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Try this http://www.ldraw.org/ or this App http://sourceforge.net/projects/brickdraw3d/

    open and Free! Lego has there own modeling software as well.
    • mocheeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah but you don't have the social aspect of playing online with your friends/clan/whomever.
  • Coolestdude1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow this game is really old i used to play like 2 years ago but the servers were really slow but this is a great game if you want to get into it.
  • SpazticChips, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have been playing this for years. Funniest lan party game ever, then NetPong. It's a great game and the mods are good as well.
  • Harq, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Another great mod for it is TBM (and DTB on top of that)

    Once TBG comes out, I think it will be a better game though (and it won't be a mod anymore, all textures redone and their own torque license)
    • 2kude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Why are people digging this down? I checked it out, and nobody really plays it for some reason, but it seems a lot better.
  • Outlawstar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Holy crap, 1996 webpage design 4tl.
  • Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I used to play Blockland way back when. (Before Blockland Mods, if any other "veterans" are here...)

    Anyway, I WOULD recommend TheBetterMod, but Blocklands creator (Badspot) seems to have something against it. (The TBM creators apparently put something that interfered with other mods in an attempt to stop their work from being stolen. Badspot never forgot this.)

    So...

    TheBetterMod.com

    If you want to see a game that was way ahead of Blockland and would have been eons ahead if Badspot had supported it. Otherwise, try Return to Blockland as MoCheeze suggested. (Or wait for retail)
  • netferret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the example I seen looked like something of money for nothing by dire straits.
  • darkwolf648c, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0This game died on me when they got rid of the editor wand, started charging for it and the community turned assholish. Get the old free BETA with RTB rather than their crappy retail; you'll have a lot more fun!
  • tommybricksetti, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Your a bastard. Badspot made a great game then he was nice enough to make it muuuch better. And he asks something in return for his great game. If you don't want to buy it (its totally worth the money check out the forum and the demo) then your just a cheap skate who wants to steal from Badspot. Blockland was never suppose to be free that was only a prototype and rtb was a mod for that prototype. The makes of rtb desided to move it to retail so yes if you get retail you can get rtb. Also the only reason you needed an editor wand is because it lagged at around 500 bricks. Where retail lags at around 40000 bricks. Better mods better game the only reason you hate it is because you've obviously never played it.
  • momsruins, on 05/16/2008, -0/+0this game is like the best lego game. but i still only have demo
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