Block Attack - Rise of the Blocks

Devlog

• Block Attack - Rise of the Blocks 2.5.0 released
  May 25, 2019 by sago008

  Version 2.5.0 was released today. The changes are minor. The biggest think is that the game will now adapt to widescreen when running fullscreen. Another change is the ability to pick permanent software render. For people with a working hardware render this does not matter but it may save a few people from a massive disappointment. Continue reading

  
• Version 2.4.0 released
  March 16, 2019 by sago008

  This version adds several different starting speeds to "Endless". The Windows version now also has better scaling and works with Unicode paths. On my test machines it is so good that I expect to soon remove the "1024x768" recommended resolution. Continue reading
• Block Attack - Rise of the Blocks 2.3.0 released
  July 19, 2018 by sago008

  Version 2.3.0 of BlockAttack has been released. It does contain some improvements to players using controllers. More importantly for me: I took the opportunity to write down all the steps needed to make a release. While I have a lot of helper scripts there are still a lot of work to be done. Just assigning a new version number is an 8 steps process. Building the files is a 9 step process (includin... Continue reading
• Block Attack - Rise of the Blocks 2.2.0 released
  May 20, 2018 by sago008

  I finally released a new version. Is it exciting? Maybe. The only thing it contains is a new font system... so what? Well, the old font system had serious problems with resolution scaling. It was practically unplayable on HighDPI devices. Not any more. Now it works out of the box. It is a small thing from a users point of view but technically it is a major change. Continue reading
• Linux version now compiled on Ubuntu 12.04
  November 19, 2017 by sago008#Linux

  I updated the Linux version once again. It is now compiled on an Ubuntu 12.04 version. Apparently Ubuntu 14.04 which is the oldest supported version of Ubuntu has major problems with SDL2. Compiling on Ubuntu 12.04 solves a very annoying problem where the game would crash when changing to fullscreen on Linux. Keeping an unsupported OS to compile is very annoying. It is my goal to always support th... Continue reading
• Updated the Linux version with SDL 2.0.6
  October 15, 2017 by sago008

  Ok, so I discovered that Ubuntu had a problem with the SDL 2.0.5 version included whit the release. For some reason the repeat functionality in SDL2 that BlockAttack uses for repeating the keypresses triggered imminently in 2.0.5 and caused problems. This did not happen on Fedora. I have uploaded a new Linux build blockattack-linux-2.1.2-2.tar.bz2 that uses SDL 2.0.6. This version no longer has th... Continue reading