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- madformadness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Now you can build huge lego creations without family members destroying them!
- 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 - 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!" - swazooe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13nobody cares that you buried it.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15What's wrong with charging for something this guy obviously spent an enormous amount of time creating?
- 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.
- 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. - luvkit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Clearly the plural of Lego is Legi.
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Blockland - Play with Legos on Your Computer!
...And then get fired. - mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Works great in Wine if anyone with something other than Windows wants to play with it.
- 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. - 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. - 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.
- 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. - Rambyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Sweet! No more sore thumbs!
- 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. - 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) - nextlife, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Works fine for me in Vista...
- simondotcalvin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5But congratulations for the front row seat on the band wagon.
- spd998, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5return to blockland and blockland aio (all in one) are better.
- 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. - 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...
- 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 - BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Bootcamp, Parrels, VMware, Virtual PC... or are you on a Macintosh II Classic?
- 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? - 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. - iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5haha. looks like scrib was the one buried for being lame =)
- 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. - 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! - 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! - BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Are you running the final version of Vista or still on Beta 1? :)
- inactive, 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.
- AshTR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How can it be a ploy to get traffic when I'm not the creator?
- 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.
- 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) - 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.
- Cdog923, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33 years old, at least.
- 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.
- imerlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Works on Wine, fairly entertaining.
- 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.
- timtimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Still looking.
Enjoy. - cyberpope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember way back when they showed this on the Screen Savers.
- 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.
- inactive, 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 - 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 ***** 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. :) - mocheeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah but you don't have the social aspect of playing online with your friends/clan/whomever.
- 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.
- GrahamStw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I duggs this arguments.
- 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. - Vision2098, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You run Vista. Dead to me.
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