Blocks In Motion – 2012/11/19

Welcome to Blocks In Motion!

Blocks In Motion is intended to be a mixture of Minecraft like block levels and Portal like physics and logic puzzles that you need to solve to reach the next level.
The game includes 5 challenging levels for you to beat – and if this is not enough for you, a map-editor is also included ;)

Have fun and thank you for playing our game!
We would also love to hear your feedback (CC us via mail, addresses at the bottom)

In-game

Editor

Before you start, please read the following information:

Software Requirements and Important Information:

• on Windows:
  • if OpenAL is not installed already, please do so: http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/oalinst.zip
  • if you have a Nvidia GPU: select the Nvidia “OpenCL Platform” in the “Options” menu, set “OpenCL Devices” to “GPU only” and restart the game
  • if you have an ATI/AMD GPU/CPU or an Intel CPU: please install the Intel OpenCL SDK for Windows (64-bit): http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/opencl-sdk
• on OS X:
  • please install the latest XQuartz: http://xquartz.macosforge.org
  • OpenCL on 10.7.5 and 10.8.2 on non-CPU devices is broken, please use a CPU device for now (this is the default setting, so you don’t have to change anything) or use an earlier version of OS X
  • if you have a Nvidia GPU, you can also use CUDA: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads (select “CUDA” as the “OpenCL Platform” in the “Options” menu and restart the game)

Requirements:

• OpenGL 3.2 Core and OpenCL 1.1+ capable graphics card and drivers (i.e. GeForce 8+, Radeon HD4+ or Intel HD 2500/4000)
• Windows: NT 6.0+ x64 (Vista/7/8/2008/2008R2/2012)
• OS X: 10.7+
• 1 GB RAM minimum, 2 GB RAM are recommended
• 256 MB VRAM minimum, 1 GB VRAM are recommended

Default Controls:

• WASD or arrow keys for walking
• Left Mouse Button to push blocks
• Right Mouse Button to pull blocks and press buttons
• Middle Mouse Button to invert the gravity of blocks
• TAB to open the console
• ESC to open the menu

Notes and Hints:

• for functioning OpenCL support please install current Nvidia drivers (if you have an Nvidia card) or install the Intel OpenCL SDK/redist to run it on your Intel/AMD CPU (http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/opencl-sdk)
• OpenCL on AMD GPUs or on AMD CPUs using the AMD OpenCL redist is not supported (you can try, but this will most certainly fail)
• support for Intel HD 2500/4000 GPUs is considered experimental and was only tested on OS X; if these should work for you on Windows, we’d like to hear your feedback! :)
• HiDPI/Retina support on OS X is enabled; note that the resolution specified in config.xml will be doubled (e.g., the default resolution of 1280*720 will become 2560*1440); to achieve a playable framerate, you should set upscaling to “2.0” in config.xml (the GUI will still be rendered at the native resolution)
• due to platform specific issues, fullscreen/windowed mode switching from within the game might not work (set the fullscreen flag manually in data/config.xml and restart the game if this happens)
• don’t dig down!

Build Instructions:

• install/build a2elight (https://github.com/a2flo/a2elight/blob/master/README.textile), git tag “BlocksInMotion”
• install/build OpenAL (Windows) or OpenALSoft (OS X/Linux), Bullet and MPG123 (links below)
• hint: on OS X: you can also copy all frameworks from within the BlocksInMotion.app to /Library/Frameworks
• on Windows/Linux: run “./premake.sh gcc” (or simply “./premake.sh” on Linux if you’re using clang/libc++) and “make”
• on OS X: open BlocksInMotion.xcodeproj and build it
• read: https://github.com/BlocksInMotion/BlocksInMotion/blob/master/data/music/where_are_the_audio_files.txt

Credits:

• https://github.com/a2flo/a2elight / a2elight
• http://www.libsdl.org / SDL2 and SDL2_image
• http://www.bulletphysics.org / Bullet Physics
• http://www.libpng.org / libpng, http://zlib.net / zlib
• http://www.xmlsoft.org / libxml2
• http://www.industriousone.com/premake / premake4
• http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net / MinGW-w64/MSYS environment
• http://www.freetype.org / FreeType2
• http://www.openal.org / OpenAL
• http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html / OpenAL Soft
• http://www.mpg123.de / mpg123
• http://www.dejavu-fonts.org / Bitstream DejaVu Fonts
• clang/libc++ (http://www.llvm.org) and gcc/libstdc++ (http://gcc.gnu.org)
• Khronos (http://www.khronos.org) / Nvidia / AMD / Apple / Intel (OpenGL/OpenCL)
• CUDA (http://www.nvidia.com)

Background Music:

• Project Divinity / Divinity (Jamendo / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• Silence / Particule (Jamendo / LAL 1.3)
• Kachkin / Sound Crystals (Jamendo / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Game Sounds:

• soundbible.com (Attribution / CC BY 3.0)
• freesfx.co.uk (http://www.freesfx.co.uk/info/eula/)
• soundjay.com (http://www.soundjay.com/tos.html royalty-free)
• GarageBand (http://www.apple.com royalty-free)
• sounddogs.com (http://sounddogs.com/htm/license.htm)
• wikipedia.org (Public Domain)

Licences:

• all audio, font and external source code licences are listed in the LICENCES file
• the source code licence is located in the COPYING file (and all code headers)

Created by:

• Florian Ziesche (florian.ziesche@gmail.com)
• Yannic Haupenthal (y.h+bim [at] posteo.de)