Rating: 77.8%
Platforms: DOS, Amiga, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Arcade, Atari Lynx and Apple IIGS
Genres: Puzzle and Arcade
Themes: Action
Keywords: blocks and block-breaking
Perspective: First person
Developer: Logical Design Works
Publisher: California Dreams;Rainbow Arts;Tec Toy
Blockout
Summary:
Blockout is a puzzle videogame, created in 1989 by Polish developer - California Dreams, designed by Aleksander Ustaszewski and Mirosaw Zabocki. The game is the logical extension of Tetris into the third dimension. In Tetris, the player manipulates a set of tetrominoes which fall into a two-dimensional pit (seen from the side). The aim is to solve a real-time packing problem by forming complete rows, which then disappear and score points. Poor play leads to incomplete rows, caused by inefficient arrangements of tiles; these rows do not disappear, giving the player progressively less space and less time to play subsequent pieces.Similarly, in Blockout, the player manipulates a set of polycubes which fall into a three-dimensional pit (seen from above; the pieces appear in the foreground and fall away). The pieces can be rotated around all three axes, and moved horizontally and vertically. The aim is to form complete layers.
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