Hey there, We had a discussion on our Discord Server about whether some games are Block Stacking Games or not. So now let’s, quite arbitrarily, define what we want to include as a BSG. Here are some game examples:
Games that are BSGs
- Tetris
- Tricky Tower
- Puyo Puyo
- Lumines
- Some parts of Art Of Balance, though not Everything
Games that are NOT BSGs
- Stack (thingy by Ketchapp)
- Minecraft
- Wilmot’s Warehouse
- Jigsaw Puzzles
Now let’s take all the things in common between those games and define some ground rules:
- The game must have blocks, we’ll call a block an object, whose colliding box is an assembly of regular convex polytopes (e.g. Square, Cube, Hypercube, Hexagon etc.)
- The blocks must be stackable with one another: There is a mechanic which allows the player to assemble the blocks together in some way (don’t hesitate to comment a more specific definition)
- The objective of the game must be to optimize a definite variable (general term) (e.g. Score, Speed, Number of moves etc.)
- The game does not have a fixed, set, number of solutions: it is NOT a puzzle game.
Note: during the jam, we will stay flexible, as the point of this is to promote creativity. In other words, if you are a bit off-topic it’ll be fine, don’t worry :)