Archive for the ‘BlockBlazers’ Category

Paper submitted to Meaningful Play

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Meaningful Play

We’ve submitted a paper to Meaningful Play, a conference on gamedesign held in Michigan, USA, in October. We talked about the design challenges that we had while making BlockBlazers and how we overcame them. The title of the paper is “BlockBlazers: Serious Decoy”, to give just a little idea what it’s about. I’m not sure what the rules of Meaningful Play are on posting (is that publishing?) the paper here, we’ll first wait to hear if we’ve been selected or not (August 15th) before asking about that. Keep you posted!

At the NLGD

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Busy, tired, but having fun at the NLGD, here are some pictures.

BlockBlazers @ NLGD ‘08 (1)

BlockBlazers @ NLGD ‘08 (2)

BlockBlazers @ NLGD ‘08 (3)

BlockBlazers @ NLGD ‘08 (4)

Karel Millenaar & Chaim Gingold

More pictures and info later..

See you at the NLGD

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

This wednesday, thursday and friday we’ll be at the NLGD (see last post).

We added points to the blocks and smoothed out a number of things.

BlockBlazers

BlockBlazers - Score!

We also updated our blockblazers website.

Did you play the game? Put your feedback in the comments :)

FourceLabs at NLGD

Monday, May 26th, 2008

From wednesday June 18th through friday June 20th, FourceLabs will be participating in the Dutch festival of games NLGD with our game BlockBlazers as part of the Expo program of the festival. We’re really looking forward to presenting our beloved game to a broader audience and are currently working hard on a slicker, improved version of the game. Hope to see you there so you can take a look at the new setup and play a round of BlockBlazers with us :)
We’re expecting to hear which stand we’ll be assigned this week. Keep you posted!

BlockBlazers in-game action

BlockBlazers @ Urban Action ‘07

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

BlockBlazers at Gamezone pictures

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Last week you could play BlockBlazers at GameZone in Antwerp. Here are some pictures:

BlockBlazers @ GameZone, Antwerpen

BlockBlazers @ GameZone, Antwerp (02)

BlockBlazers @ GameZone, Antwerp (03)

BlockBlazers @ GameZone, Antwerp (04)

BlockBlazers @ GameZone, Antwerp (05)

 Alle foto’s copyright Adriaan Wormgoor.

Joyce vond BlockBlazers ook leuk.

BlockBlazers @ GameZone, Antwerp

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

We are proud to say BlockBlazers can be played at GameZone from today up to Saturday in Antwerp, Belgium.

Gamezonedesingel.be (in Dutch)

GAMEZONE is een vierdaags multimediafestival dat de wereld van games vanuit alle mogelijke hoeken bekijkt. Van 7 tot en met 10 februari 2008 wordt cultuurtempel deSingel omgevormd tot een verbluffend lunapark.

Twee jaar na de eerste editie van het festival is de hype groter dan ooit: de industrie legt juichend indrukwekkende groeicijfers voor, nonkel Jef heeft een Second Life en tante Marie doet elke dag haar Brain Training. Games zijn wereldwijd onderdeel geworden van onze digital lifestyle. GAMEZONE DESINGEL kijkt voorbij de hype en beschouwt gaming als een cultuurfenomeen dat net als de film of de strip boeiende, vervelende, vernieuwende of interessante producties oplevert.

Vier dagen lang kan je het allemaal ontdekken: de allernieuwste games op de allernieuwste toestellen, een indrukwekkende collectie uit de jaren ’80 en ’90, films over games en internet, games van kunstenaars, studenten en alternatieve producenten, lezingen over effecten en controverse, over opleidingen en de beste games voor kinderen. En om helemaal in conditie te komen: een speciale sportafdeling! Uplay2?

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(picture: BlockBlazers @ Industrion, 2007)

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BlockBlazers.com

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Information about our game BlockBlazers can now be found here:

http://www.blockblazers.com

Video of BlockBlazers @ PICNIC’07

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Also check out our other BlockBlazers videos.

Pictures PICNIC 2007

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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(c) Adriaan Wormgoor, FourceLabs

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(c) Adriaan Wormgoor, FourceLabs

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(c) Adriaan Wormgoor, FourceLabs