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Blockland Halloween

Name:	Eric Hartman
Date Posted:	Nov 01, 2006
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So I've had the Torque engine for 5 years, made a couple games with it including two that are still fairly popular and I've never posted a blog. I'm gonna try to start doing this more often.

For those of you that don't know, Blockland is a multiplayer construction game that I've been developing on and off for a bout 2 years now. It's finally starting to come together and a lot of the features really lend themselves to machinima. So with the help of the beta testers, I put this halloween video together in about an hour:

The whole point of the game is to build stuff and screw around, so all of the sets were built in-game and all the characters are just regular people playing the game. I filmed it with an old version of fraps and cut it together in virtual dub.

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List:	07/02/08 - GameDev.net Article #2! 04/03/08 - GameDev.net Article! 02/12/08 - Pong in Blockland! 09/05/07 - Blockland > 1,000,000 03/02/07 - Blockland Released... 11/01/06 - Blockland Halloween

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Steve Flowers (Nov 01, 2006 at 11:48 GMT)

That's pretty cool. What are the other games that you've built? I see you're from Poquoson. We're neighbors (NN) :) Do you know of any groups in the area or other folks that dabble, wade, or swim in game development stuff?

Phil Carlisle (Nov 01, 2006 at 11:48 GMT)

You know youre games are so nice Eric. I cant wait to see what you make in the future.. Waiting for the movie to load right now.. :)

No sound though for me, damn work machine.

Phil.

Phil Carlisle (Nov 01, 2006 at 11:53 GMT)

Hey Eric,

I cant see that movie for some reason.. can you put it on google video or youtube and post a linkie please? pretty please? :)

Eric Elwell (Nov 01, 2006 at 12:02 GMT)

haha! good stuff!

Adam deGrandis (Nov 01, 2006 at 12:25 GMT)

VERY cool :)

Eric Hartman (Nov 01, 2006 at 13:09 GMT)

@Steve Flowers: I don't know of any local anything. But I can't say that I've looked.
My Torque Projects:
Tribes RPG mod: Not torque precisely but I did do some scripting an skinning for this mod.

Sons Of Valor - A sequel to tribes rpg I worked on with 2 other guys. Faded away / lost. Apparently the concept demo is still on fileplanet though.

Future War - Experimental multiplayer team thing. You drive jeeps, fly P51s, build bases out of junk and shoot stuff. Early TGE physics render it too unstable to play Screenshot Screenshot2

Blockland

Age of Time - A persistant online action RPG.

Two Guns - Side scrolling shoot-em-up brawler prototype. Video

@Phil Carlisle
YouTube Link for the above video

Steve Flowers (Nov 01, 2006 at 15:31 GMT)

@Eric - Where are you working now? Looking for a new spot to come to work?

Todd Pickens (Nov 01, 2006 at 16:43 GMT)

Zombies Rock!

Mark McCoy (Nov 01, 2006 at 17:55 GMT)

You sir, have an eye for entertainment. No wonder your games are fun. :)

Tom Eastman (Eastbeast314) (Nov 01, 2006 at 19:43 GMT)

I miss Blockland... Are you coming back to Eugene?

Greg Gardinier (Nov 01, 2006 at 20:26 GMT)

Cool this was by far one of the funnest games I played at IGC.

Eric Hartman (Nov 02, 2006 at 00:59 GMT)

Currently I'm "working" in my parent's house, but in 2 weeks I'm going to be moving out to Eugene to intern at Garage Games.

Joshua Dallman (Nov 02, 2006 at 03:13 GMT)

Sweet, we gonna be roommates! Looking forward to you coming out, you're doing awesome stuff. That video is killer, dig your humor. 2 guns was awesome at !igc, but I just couldn't get past the goofy mouse controls.

Allyn "Mr_Bloodworth" Mcelrath (Nov 02, 2006 at 04:31 GMT)

Newport news devloper here. I have a small team working on a project.

Im feeling a Hamption roads torque devlopers panera outing comming on.

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