Players love building stuff, as long as it's relatively easy and rewarding, and tetris pieces are the most succesful building blocks in gaming. A combination of house-building and tetris blocks is the basis for today's multiplayer game concept.
A screen is divided in two by a conveyor belt. Each of the sides contains a colored diagram of a house or other structure, built on a square grid. As the game begins, random tetris-like building blocks start rolling down the conveyor belt. The players can lift those pieces with the mouse, rotate them with the spacebar, and slot them into a free place in the diagram. The first player to finish building his house wins the game (or a game round).
To spice things up, several options are available:
- First of all, the structure to be filled up is chosen randomly from a genrous list of pre-fabricated structures.
- Structures may be colored in mutiple colors, and the blocks come in random colors. Slotting a block completely on squares of the same color gives that player a certain advantage - points, if points serve a purpose in the game, a bonus single-square block etc.
- The conveyor belt may deliver special items from time to time: a bomb, used to clear an unwanted piece on your side of the board or blow up a part of the opponent's house; a joker block, used to fill up any generic enclosed space of up to five squares size; etc.
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