- Name of the game: BlockPuzzle
- Game size: 32KB
- RAM size requirements: 16KB
- Game genre: Casual puzzle
- Individuals involved: David “turbor” Heremans
Puzzles, a good way to spend our spare time playing with our MSX computer. Here we have a new one that pretends to be casual but also give a good moments of entertainment.
The mechanics are easy to learn but needs some time to master: place the blocks in the grid to fill the spaces. Use ‘M’ key or secondary button to switch between the three blocks available or move them using the cursor keys (or joystick) and confirm position by pressing space (or primary button).
Once those pieces are in place, three new random pieces will appear and we must repeat the process. The aim of the game is to reach the highest score by placing pieces in the spots available. Once there’s no movement possible, the game is over.
This game has different levels of difficulty so you can try each one to find the best that fits your skill level.
According to its author, BlockPuzzle started as an attempt to create a simple one pixel smooth text scroller on MSX1 but then he got carried away. It was intended to be fitted in a 16KB ROM but finally because of the sound, it grew until 32KB by not using compression algorithms.
Downloads and updates
v1.0
Download not available
v1.1
- Improved difficulty selector.
- Easy, normal and hard modes have tweaked random distribution of the pieces, and an extra 3 levels were the difficulty is increasing during playtime making it progressively harder and harder.
Download not available
v1.2
Improved joystick handling.
Download not available.
v1.3 (out of the contest)
The game runs on the Mega Mapper + SofaRun combination of mzoran.
