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Sinheliopistostopheles
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So with the recent announcement of the Lego MMO being released sometime next year, I think nows a good time to revisit BLOCKLAND! A game in which we use Legos to build things, and also do battle.
(Guided) WHAT TO GET:
Unzip/Install all these to the same Blockland directory!
1) REGULAR BLOCKLAND
2) THE BETTER MOD
3) DEATH TO BRICK
4) UPDATE 1!
5) SOME PATCH!
6) IMPROVED HELP DOCUMENTS!
7) NEW PLAYER DECALS!
8) AN AWESOME MAP
(Manual) WHAT TO GET:
The full downloads page.
HOW TO PLAY:
tbmstandard.bat will run standard BLOCKLAND!
dtb.bat will run the same thing except now there is a Deathmatch mod activated that allows you to use weapons and kill people. We will use dtb.bat
Once in game, you can hit alt+o to look at the controls and just figure stuff out. It's not too hard. 1 through 0 control different bricks as seen at the bottom of your screen.
Clicking a spot places the ghost of the current selected brick type down. Use the numpad to fine tune the position of the brick in various ways. Press enter (on the numpad) to place down the brick for real.
To delete stuff you can use a hammer by pressing z (but you have to destroy stuff from the highest brick first). To delete stuff anywhere press e to go into edit mode, hit a brick with the staff thing and then press delete (edit mode also lets you do other weird shit when you press the mouse 3 button or its equivalent.)
g toggles the iGob, which allows you to save anything within a little sphere that it creates. To make the sphere larger, press the * on the numpad. To make it smaller, use the /
Later on you can load this saved stuff as much as you want.
q is the spray can. alt+q shows you a palette of all 96 colors that Lego ever produced.
You can't build on raw ground apparently, but if you go into edit mode, click your mouse3 button, click the "Editor" button in the new window, and then click the little blank box next to "Spawn" and select platform, you can spawn a new platform anywhere to build on. You don't have to learn any of this at all, it comes naturally to you like many other curious things. Now we will give them life.
Move around with WASD, space bar to jump, right click for jetpacks if the server has jetpacks enabled. Hit alt+I to mess with your appearance (you can also do this under options at the start menu). Tab to change views. M to fly around in free look (though I'm not sure how to return back to my own body).
At the moment I'm not even sure how to set up Capture the Flag games or Kings Crown or even allow people to take damage from weapons, but maybe someone will figure it out eventually.
Now, I haven't exactly mastered this game or anything so I'm not really sure how to get Capture the Flag games running or anything.
Edit: Anyway, I tried to create a server for penny-arcade, and failed miserably. So somebody host so we can build massive fortress cities.
(Guided) WHAT TO GET:
Unzip/Install all these to the same Blockland directory!
1) REGULAR BLOCKLAND
2) THE BETTER MOD
3) DEATH TO BRICK
4) UPDATE 1!
5) SOME PATCH!
6) IMPROVED HELP DOCUMENTS!
7) NEW PLAYER DECALS!
8) AN AWESOME MAP
(Manual) WHAT TO GET:
The full downloads page.
HOW TO PLAY:
tbmstandard.bat will run standard BLOCKLAND!
dtb.bat will run the same thing except now there is a Deathmatch mod activated that allows you to use weapons and kill people. We will use dtb.bat
Once in game, you can hit alt+o to look at the controls and just figure stuff out. It's not too hard. 1 through 0 control different bricks as seen at the bottom of your screen.
Clicking a spot places the ghost of the current selected brick type down. Use the numpad to fine tune the position of the brick in various ways. Press enter (on the numpad) to place down the brick for real.
To delete stuff you can use a hammer by pressing z (but you have to destroy stuff from the highest brick first). To delete stuff anywhere press e to go into edit mode, hit a brick with the staff thing and then press delete (edit mode also lets you do other weird shit when you press the mouse 3 button or its equivalent.)
g toggles the iGob, which allows you to save anything within a little sphere that it creates. To make the sphere larger, press the * on the numpad. To make it smaller, use the /
Later on you can load this saved stuff as much as you want.
q is the spray can. alt+q shows you a palette of all 96 colors that Lego ever produced.
You can't build on raw ground apparently, but if you go into edit mode, click your mouse3 button, click the "Editor" button in the new window, and then click the little blank box next to "Spawn" and select platform, you can spawn a new platform anywhere to build on. You don't have to learn any of this at all, it comes naturally to you like many other curious things. Now we will give them life.
Move around with WASD, space bar to jump, right click for jetpacks if the server has jetpacks enabled. Hit alt+I to mess with your appearance (you can also do this under options at the start menu). Tab to change views. M to fly around in free look (though I'm not sure how to return back to my own body).
At the moment I'm not even sure how to set up Capture the Flag games or Kings Crown or even allow people to take damage from weapons, but maybe someone will figure it out eventually.
Now, I haven't exactly mastered this game or anything so I'm not really sure how to get Capture the Flag games running or anything.
Edit: Anyway, I tried to create a server for penny-arcade, and failed miserably. So somebody host so we can build massive fortress cities.
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There are actually many blocklands.
One is retail and costs 20 bucks and uses no legos. Another is called Return to Blockland but kinda sucks. And then theres TBM which is the best version of the 3.
I've played all 3
That said, this looks shit hot. I must get into this.
TBM is a derivative of an old version of the old Blockland. They are all legal.
Unless you hate fun.
This next thing is a tough thing to post, because it's going to be easy to misinterpret what I'm saying. I haven't touched BlockLand since 2005. Please don't think I'm taking sides in some battle -- I'm just posting what I remember.
Around July 2005 (when I first started playing with Torque) the author posted a message on the private TGE forum (restricted to people who have at least paid $100 for an indie license for TGE) looking for help handling some community drama on his BlockLand.us. He said one of the mod groups had put some malicious code into their mod, so essentially he was banning them from the community and halting his own site's distribution of their mod. When I saw this topic I didn't remember who it was, so I looked back at my old subscribed-topic emails.
So apparently it was TBM (The Best Mod, I think it stood for) that dared to put malicious code in their mod. I remember some of the drama: TBM believed that some of their freely-distributed assets (code, meshes, textures, etc.) was being used in other mods. They allegedly had put some malicious code in their mod that detected their assets installed in other places, and deleted them. Allegedly they also had added a hard-coded password to the administration tool, so any 'TBM admin' could log into any TBM server and use administrative functions like kicking and banning people, deleting models, etc.
From what I remember, TBM responded to the ban from the community by splintering off, and by claiming they would release their new packages in compiled form only. See, TorqueScript code can be distributed in text (source) form, and the engine compiles it when it first loads it. Or you can just distribute the compiled version, and then people can't see your source code.
I had just finished a class on Programming Languages, where we learned about compiler and interpreter design, etc. I remember telling the community on that forum "I should write a TorqueScript decompiler, and then that will solve your problem." I was pretty naive then -- I didn't actually have the skill needed to write a decompiler. I've just now completed a graduate-level class on type systems -- I now know I'm closer to being able to write a decompiler, but probably not a very good one.
For people still involved in the BlockLand community: what ever happened with TBM? Obviously they're pretty successful if they're the default. Did they get back together with the author? Was their falling-out complete and total, and this is a fork?
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On the plus side, we had some damn nice pirate ships and forts built.
I'm not really too involved with this Blockland community, but I never even knew about TBM until one day I got curious and decided to search for this forbidden thing.
Turns out it kinda kicks ass. I have the retail version of Blockland, and though it has some cool things I kinda like having actual Lego stuff. TBM is better I believe.
EDIT: Damn, my game crashed whilst in that helicopter.
We should plan sometime to build a big detailed city with sky scrapers and roads or something as a group, then fight bloody battles in it.
i still have that ship made out of legos in my room
Just try it and see. They are just bricks. Pretty low polygon count.
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Downloading.
Edit:
F8 will also engage freelook, and center the camera in your body if you're already in freelook. F7 teleports your body to your current camera posistion and puts you back into first person mode.
Edit 2:
This IKEAhouse map reminds me of Toy Commander on the DC. Pure awesome. I want to build an entire city spanning the whole map, including cliff-side dwellings.
Already?! Noooo!
But seriously, not to derail, but didn't we just have the biggest SS13 night ever two or three nights ago?
Cool. We can use some sort of persistent server. Especially if someone figures out how to get the Capture the Flag or King's Crown games running.
Woah. Leagues ahead of what I have so far, yay trying to do 4 things at once. Looks great!
PoS radeon x1300
With a card like that, I don't see how you could run anything at all.
There's only this one from the last time I joined in
You must all call me CAPTAIN OF THE MOON when I'm playing.
because I'm the captain of the moon.