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Below you will find instructions on keyboard controls, features
of the game play area, and information on game rules and scoring
structure.
Keyboard Controls:
Left Arrow - Moves the block left
Right Arrow - Moves the block right
Up Arrow - Rotates the block
Down Arrow - Fall Quickly / Drop the block
The Drop key has two functions: the first time it is pressed and held down the block will
fall down the screen much faster than normal until released. Pressing it a second time will drop
the current piece directly to the bottom. This is reset for each piece.
Scoreboard Features & Viewing Other Players Boards:
The scoreboard displays the names of all the room members who
are participating in this round of play, their scores, and current
status. This display automatically ranks the players by score with
the top score on top.
At any time you may click on a player's name to view their board.
Your board will temporarily be replaced with a real-time view of
theirs. To return to your board click on your own name.
Be careful though! Your game does not pause while you view another
board. Block will continue to fall and accumulate regardless if
you are looking at them or not.
Objective, Rules & Scoring:
The object of Blockwars is to assemble as many complete lines as
possible out of the falling pieces. When a line is completed it
is removed from your board, freeing up additional space. You will
be eliminated if there is no longer room for a new piece to be added
at the top.
Blockwars is not a solo game however. All players are competing
against each other in real-time.
If you complete multiple lines at once all other players will
have lines added to their boards.
If you complete 2 lines simultaneously the other players will each
receive 1 penalty line.
If you complete 3 lines simultaneously the other players will each
receive 2 penalty lines.
If you complete 4 lines simultaneously the other players will each
receive 4 penalty lines.
Be cautious in attempting to get 4 lines at once. In the time it
takes you to setup four lines, eight other players may have sent
you one line each!
Points are awarded primarily for dropping blocks and completing
lines. A block that falls to the bottom on its own scores nothing
(unless it happes to complete a line, then scoring the line points).
The amount of points awarded for each action:
Dropping a block: 25 points per line dropped (ie the block falls
for 10 lines = 250 points)
Completing 1-3 lines: 1,000 x current level (ie for level 5: 1,000
points x 5 = 5,000 points)
Completing 4 lines at once: 5,000 x current level (ie 5,000 x 5
= 25,000)
The player with the highest score at the
end, not the last person alive, wins.
Levels increase in lockstep - each player is always on the same
level. When a player completes 10 lines within a level the level
increases for everyone.
The player who completed the level will also recieve an additional
bonus of 15,000.
Players do not receive the same blocks at the same time. They are
created randomly to prevent cheating: one player could just drop
blocks one after the other then tell another player what order the
blocks will be dropped in.
This does not favor one player over another or lead to one player
getting better pieces: each player has the same odds for getting
the "good" or "bad" pieces. You have as much
chance of getting a good run as a bad, so do the other players.
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