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General Discussion / Blockland Machinima: Misadventures On A Wrong Earth

« on: January 26, 2021, 01:27:40 AM »

Created by Baked (40609) and AlexK (3689), Misadventures On A Wrong Earth is a comedy series that spans across various locations and realities by way of a man discovering a surreal teleportation device; fueling troublesome encounters. I, on behalf of The Blockbusters productions, was involved with the creation of the second episode, and it was a riot to make.


Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnXlT139wOs
I had no involvement in this one, but I recommend you should still watch it to get an understanding of the conflict. Quote "The biggest enemy of the U.S government, A̶g̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶N̶i̶n̶j̶a̶   Baked, has fled to a predetermined location with a stolen teleporter from the pentagon." A lot of the humor is similar to that of Nekram, but uses storytelling and dialogue to set up the humor.

Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYOPNLkDKPg
If you liked "The Swashbucklers", you'll really like this. The crew and I spared no expense with use of events for mind-blowing action scenes. Combine that with some astonishing voice acting by Billywws (251582) as the captain, and great improvisational contributions from the whole crew (credited at the end). This is a film worth watching. To quote: "Escaping the threat from before, Baked stumbles his way to a pirate ship after finding a disc of unknown origin". The comedy in this more similar to that of Filipe1020 or Teneksi, with early 2000s videogame soundtracks, voice acting, and major usage of explosions.

If you like these videos, please share them. Also, check out The Blockbusters productions.

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Off Topic / Re: Parler Pantheon Thread | Twitter, except less degenerate.

« on: January 13, 2021, 02:46:31 PM »

I used Parler for a while. About 5-6 months on and off.

In my opinion, Parler is not suited for anyone who considers themselves a fan of Blockland. It's content is almost entirely political, and homogeneous at that. There isn't much to look at when it comes to memes, video game media, movie media, or anything like that. ANd even when there are, it's still politically charged; something along the lines of "Boycott X because it is Y or supports Z".

I'm not trying to discourage people from using it, I just don't think anyone here would have a fun time getting invested in it, unless they're invested in politics... That is, unless a bunch of Blocklanders trail-blazed a new sub-culture on Parler and started posted original, funny, new esoteric memes. Now that would get me back in!

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Off Topic / Re: vhina will ruin blovkland

« on: January 13, 2021, 02:48:43 AM »

Introducing:

(The Democratic Republic of)
BLOCKLAND
That Game Where You Build Stuff*
(*For Export)

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General Discussion / Re: How do you get better at building?

« on: November 22, 2020, 07:08:06 PM »

A good start is to brown townyze existing builds for inspiration, especially the default ones.

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Machinima: Halloween Special!

« on: November 16, 2020, 04:43:26 PM »

That was a lovely animation, I don't browse blf much these days and this almost flew under my radar.

Glad you liked it!

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Machinima: Halloween Special!

« on: November 13, 2020, 03:03:08 PM »

This is really good and it's a shame there's not more of an audience for BL machinima these days, you guys deserve the recognition for the talent on display here.

Thanks a lot! We're doing what we can to advertise, and we hope these films will inspire other people to make their own.
If it's not too much trouble, could you tell people in your inner circles about our work? We're trying to attract more seasoned, dedicated film-makers to join.

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Faces, Decals, Prints / Re: [Face] Soy

« on: November 08, 2020, 01:27:59 AM »

That's pretty clever the way you Frankenstein'd multiple default faces together. You should've used one of the Mythbuster faces' glasses to mix it up though. Just my opinion.

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Machinima: Halloween Special!

« on: October 30, 2020, 04:31:33 AM »

I'll probably release all the custom add-ons on BLG soon.

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General Discussion / Blockland Machinima: Halloween Special!

« on: October 30, 2020, 04:30:03 AM »

Our latest film is out, just in-time for Halloween! Done over the course of a week and three days - beginning with the conception, this film was a bit of a douse to make. There was a large crew behind this film, consisting of eight real players (with absolute minimal usage of film-bot).

Synopsis: As Halloween grows near, the owner begins to notice supernatural events unfolding at his pumpkin patch.

Watch the full film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YFi0X2FyU

Add-ons used:

• Torch Light
• Candle Light
• Film Mode
• FilmBot
• Farm Truck

Custom add-ons

• Hat_Western
• Hat_BlokoGhost
• Item_Pumpkin

Contact:
Join the Blockbusters Productions Discord server to get involved with the film making process: https://discord.gg/f7ve9XZ

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Related Wikis

« on: October 29, 2020, 04:05:41 PM »

i attempted to make a blockland wikia years ago and it almost immediately went to hell

There's been a lot throughout the years, what most of them lack is a decent foundation, and scope. Most of them just devolve into a micro blogging platform for people to write advertisements for their favorite add-ons/Blockland, videos or just interpersonal drama because the Wikis have an extremely broad focus; usually trying to encompass Blocklands' features, culture, users, and skit-videos all at once.

That's how the Blockland Wiki was until I cleaned it up. And also where I realized that there needs to be multiple Wikis so that each one can be moderated separately. So The Blockland Wiki would be for information relevant to the base game, the BL-User wiki would be for interpersonal drama, add-ons, and etc, and the BL-Films wiki would obviously be for info relevant to films made in-game.

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland Related Wikis

« on: October 29, 2020, 10:54:08 AM »

Which Wiki, and when?

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General Discussion / Re: Blockland's most disturbing images

« on: October 29, 2020, 03:30:25 AM »

Why are the arms floating, but the legs have knees and thighs and what-not? Odd decision.

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General Discussion / Blockland Related Wikis

« on: October 29, 2020, 03:24:38 AM »

I wanted to share some Blockland-related Wiki pages that I've both come across, and personally contributed to. I've asked some people to help me in the past, although have gotten mixed reception. I figure it's best to make an open thread about it, rather than asking person-to-person infinitely.

The Blockland Wiki: https://blockland.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page
A Wiki page dedicated to the essential details, history and trivia of base Blockland, as well as some of its' user-base landmarks such as these very forums, or RTB. I inherited the Wiki
from the user ShockBL, and I've added quite a few pages overtime; mainly of in-game content. It's definitely in need of more contributors, and people who can source information on the chronology of Blockland's evolution.

The Blockland User Wiki: https://blocklandusers.fandom.com/wiki/Blockland_Users_Wiki
This Wiki is dedicated to immortalizing members of the Blockland user-base. In general, it seems like it needs more contributors, and possibly some moderators. I personally don't use this Wiki very much, although I get why it would exist.

The Blockland Films Wiki: https://blocklandfilms.fandom.com/wiki/Blockywood_Wiki
Also referred to as Blockywood. This is my pet project; founded with Joestacos2 and Daffytitanic. It was created to both archive and catalog everything relevant to Blockland's film making subculture. We have categories for film clans, film creators, and series so far. More contributors are definitely needed.

So what are your takes on these Wikis?
I know they're kind of a played-out format, and some have questioned the necessity of having them in general. Personally, I think there are a couple reasons documenting both the development and culture of a game like this could provide some in-sight for new players of the game who may feel a little lost when first joining. Or, it could serve as either an a inspirational or cautionary tale to indie game designers on what made Blockland so special, or where it went wrong. Also, as a Blockland film-maker myself, I see value in preserving the biographies and multi-media creations of fellow users all in one handy spot, so future users can become inspired to try their hand at creating something.

If you're interested, simply hop on, refer to the guidelines, and have fun.

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Forum Games / Re: W.I.P Halloween Film - Actors Needed!

« on: October 23, 2020, 12:41:43 PM »

If we are an actor then do we need to voice act

Optionally. There will be voices in the video, but who's acting and who's voice acting is irrelevant in the final film.

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Gallery / Re: Ranchero (WIP)

« on: October 23, 2020, 03:28:41 AM »

You should add some phone booths, considering they're all gone now, that'd help set the era.