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An action-packed two-player local-coop 2D puzzle platformer with a focus on teamwork. Use one player's ability to place blocks and the other's ability to break them to create a path to your goal while escaping the rising lava from below!

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Dev_Update!

Jan 21

Hey everyone! New Dev_Update coming your way!

Magma Blocks are Reworked!

We never quite liked how magma blocks caused an instant Game Over, exploding at the slightest touch. They were needlessly punishing and frustrating to play with, and because of that it was difficult to make fun levels with them. So we used the opportunity of the re-write to re-work!

(bear in mind, the Blocklets are still placeholdering!)

Magma blocks are still scorching hot, and the Blocklets really don't like touching them - but at least they don't explode in your face anymore!

From Hot to Cold

The ice block is our newest addition to our roster. Within its freeze zone, all special traits of other blocks are turned off: sand stops falling, bouncers stop being bouncy, teleporters deactivate...

Oh and - by popular demand - frozen blocks are now slippery! You're welcome!

Alright, that's all from me for now, but we've still got a little something for you from our level designer - a little behind the scenes of how our levels change over time!

Level Design and the Power of People

So as the level designer of your own game, you'd think you'd know everything, right? That's the attitude we had at our first conventions.

You guys picked up the game incredibly fast - some of you even delved into speed running our levels! And that's where the magic happens. Standing next to the players, watching and silently thinking: "Nah, you have to go left. That won´t work.. that.. wait what?!" And boom, there goes your brilliant puzzle.

You can't beat the swarm intelligence of all possible players, so we learned to embrace it! Don't restrict them: If players are smarter than you, give them a nice bonus hat and celebrate together!

In many cases, we did just that! Players found ways to reach new, unexpected places and we realized we could add a bonus star right there. Sometimes, we learnt of entirely new traversal techniques through play-testing at events.

It's all part of the fascinating journey of making a game with your audience, and we are incredibly grateful that you're here with us!

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Hallo, ich hatte euer Spiel auf der Gamescom angetestet und eine Visitenkarte mitgenommen. Da ich die nun endlich mal alle durchgehen wollte und das Spiel wishlisten hatte ich nach dem Namen des Spiels auf Google gesucht: "Steam Block Up". Der Unterstrich auf der Karte ist nicht als solcher erkennbar wenn man nicht weiß dass er da sein soll. Ohne den findet man aber absolut gar nicht diese Seite hier. Nur wenn man auf Steam selbst nach "Block Up" sucht kommt sie. (Den QR-Code wollte ich nicht scannen weil...

dot.dot.dot.

Dec 26, 2023 @ 10:12am

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Dev_Update!

Dec 4, 2025

Hey everyone!

Coming out of the developer cave for a bit to give you guys an update on where we're at.

So... Online Multiplayer is surprisingly difficult to do!

Those of you who've followed us for a while know that online multiplayer is the main thing missing for us to do a full release - we want you to be able to play Block_Up with your friends regardless of whether they're sitting with you on the couch or if they're on the other side of the world!

Block_Up started as a game jam project, and the original code ran on the programming equivalent of duct-tape and hope. As we continued development on it, it grew organically into a chaotic - but functional! - mess. Think of a charming, blocky little robot with terrible cable management, where the leg joints are for some reason connected to the eye sensors - that was Block_Up. Changing anything came at a pretty big risk of things breaking - I distinctly remember one day, trying to change jumping mechanics and it destroyed the UI for no discernable reason. That's not something that should happen.

The amount of changes needed to add online multiplayer would've broken everything. Easier to just throw the old code out and start from scratch.

So we did!

So where are we at now?

The game mechanics themselves, as well as most of the visuals, are almost fully ported over! And the rewrite even allowed us to update a couple things to make them smoother!

Here's pic taken from our current version:

The Blocklets currently have placeholder visuals and are waiting for their fancy new animations. Portals have a snazzy new look, and the ice block is looking pretty cool! Any ideas on what exactly its mechanics are?

We've still got a long way to go - UI, control rebinding, lobbies... all the vital things which will ideally be practically unnoticable in the final game.

This is taking too long, I want to play the game now!

We get ya - we want you to play the game too! We've set the original game as the Demo with a selection of levels. Feel free to show your friends and try speedrun them (and share your times on our Discord server[discord.gg])!

Thank you for following us as we make our little block game. We'll try and keep you updated a bit more frequently from now. We have plans! They'll all just take a little time...

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Dev_Update!

Jul 8, 2024

Hey everyone!
We've been a bit quiet the past few months, but that's 'cause we've been cooking! Let's catch you up to speed.

What's changed?

This (Bl)Oc(k)tober will be the 2 year anniversary of the GameJam in which Block_Up was born. A lot of things have changed since then. Look at that glowup!

Apart from the visual update, we've also added a bunch more block types for you to break and place as you please, controller support for most things, tons of small QoL changes, as well as a fancy level editor! We look forward to seeing all the blocktastic levels you come up with.

Why's the blocking game not released yet?!

Whilst the core game itself is basically done, a lot of the stuff around the game isn't yet - the biggest and most important being online multiplayer. But trust us when we say the game will be out as soon as it's ready - we want you to be able to play it too!

You mentioned Blocktober?

Oh yeah! To celebrate, we'll be holding a small event on our Discord[discord.gg] in October. Don't forget to join it to stay updated - be there and be square! There may even be free keys to be won...

Until then, we'll return to our blocky game-making cave. Until next time!

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Coop play

Only one controller works in coop play. Both are selected in the settings menu, how do we get two controllers to function?

Beach Bum

Jul 26, 2025 @ 10:09am

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