When you first bought Blockland

[MackTheHunter]

In this topic, post the following things:

1. How you found out about Blockland, what website, etc

2. The first thing you did in the Blockland Demo

3. Why you bought Blockland


This is mine:

I found out about Blockland from a large site on Sandbox and MMO games, I can't remember the name... but it advertised Vanilla Blockland and the link lead me to the main site.

When I downloaded it, the first thing I did was learn to move, look around, etc. I figured out how to use the jets (Oh how fun that was), and eventually how to use the spray paint menu. Then I went to the Slopes and explored a bit - I attempted to jet to heaven while checking out the FX menu for Spray Paint.
Then I learned to build in Bedroom, and discovered Vehicles (Which I nearly peed myself while exploring them) and attempted to build a house... UNTIL, I hit the brick limit.
It was that instant when I thought that I really needed to buy it. So I did, back in 2007-8 :D

Yes, this was my first PC mouse-aimed based game I ever played. This game actually lead me into Steam, HL2, TF2 etc.

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[Wynd_Fox]

I saw an ad for it on the FSG forums.
I first...I don't remember.
I bought it because my mom owed me a game, and this looked fun.

[Muzzles56]

I found out about Blockland on a youtube video while looking at some lego builds people made. It looked really good and was RTB V.1024 or something

The first thing I did in the blockland demo was load the demo house and drive around in the jeep

I bought Blockland because I really loved legos at the time and decided that building online would be even better. After realising that you could DM and everything, I instantly bought it

[KoopaScooper]

I started playing it because Jester installed it, and abandoned it. He probably found it on Brickshelf.

Did the tutorial. I downloaded JVS Doors (the old "JVS_Doors"), and built a nice house that took 138 bricks.

I bought it because it was a very promising building/sandbox game. That, and I had $20 to spare after Christmas morning.

[Tyler66]

I saw blockland as an add on "Gods of time"

I went to slopes and builded my first house with undulo and FX Rainbow

I was very interested what other people built so I asked my dad to buy it.

[Regulith]

1. How you found out about Blockland, what website, etc

I was frequently on Armor Games and decided to check it out after seeing the ad countless times while playing games.

2. The first thing you did in the Blockland Demo

I played the tutorial, then built a staircase made of 150 1x4 bricks.

3. Why you bought Blockland

My staircase needed to be higher.

[Amade]

1. dan-ball.jp, I saw the ad with an astronaut blockhead floating over crysta castle.
2. tried various exploits so I could build with over 150 bricks and then made a sucky recreation of the default DM that Jirue made and played it with zombies and Gikon's weapons, and built a couple big rocket launcher things
3. I wanted to play online

[Leftus]

My staircase needed to be higher.

My brother was playing it on demo and got bored, but I didn't.
Tried to build a half pipe, but I only got one 1x4 row on one side done.
Internet play is dope.

[Hugums]

1. How you found out about Blockland, what website, etc

I was frequently on Armor Games and decided to check it out after seeing the ad countless times while playing games.

2. The first thing you did in the Blockland Demo

I played the tutorial, then built a staircase made of 150 1x4 bricks.

3. Why you bought Blockland

My staircase needed to be higher.

Holy forget, thats the EXACT same thing as me. except my staircase was was 2x8 bricks and was in the bedroom leading up to the shelf. The grand staircase :3

[TMAN7676]

adds on kongertate

tutorial, did stuff

played on bedroom dark, forgot that i could use jets, so i went to make it to the top of the bed

dad bought it for me :)

[Thorax]

I first read about it in Game Informer magazine in their "100 best free games" article. I forgot about it till I saw it on "The Screen Savers" (Now known as Attack of the Show). About a week after that, my friend had me over for a LAN party and we played TBM the whole time. After I got back, I was looking up TBM and couldn't get it to work, so I got RTB. I stayed with RTB, playing it on and off, until 1.045. Then Retail came out and I didn't want to make the switch. Why bother buying a game that lets you do all the stuff I could do for free? Besides, Badspot changed the way the Minifigs looked like. I forgot about BL until about a year later, when I was saving up money to buy a laptop/desktop. I was looking up games to play and I remembered BL. It was about another year until I got my laptop, but a few weeks after I bought it, I purchased BL.

EDIT:

Uhm, I used the tutorial to test how well my laptop would preform. I think I built a small house and tried events.

As for why I bought it, mainly Rotondo's zombie mod and the portal gun addons.

[A.R.C.]

1. How you found out about Blockland, what website, etc

Googled "Free games" before retail and found this.

2. The first thing you did in the Blockland Demo

Nothing, I bought it when I remembered it still existed.

3. Why you bought Blockland

Wanted to play it again.

[Kevdude]

1. Look up Garry's Mod stuff

2. Built a fort

3. To build with other people

[tay104]

Some guy I played run-escape with told me about it back when it was free.  Then when it came out as retail I told my dad to buy it and lo and behold he did.

[John1701]

1. A friend had it at school.
2. I built a large bombing range.
3. I ran out of demo bricks (and had money to burn).