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 :)
