Tower Bloxx
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Tower Bloxx is a strategy
/puzzle mobile
video game developed by Digital Chocolate
.
The game features two types of gameplay, "Build city" and "Quick game". The "Quick game" is a kind of endless mode, as exists in many puzzle games.
with as many inhabitants as possible, building various types of tower
s: Residential (blue), Commercial (red), Office (green), and Luxury (yellow). The number of people that can potentially inhabit any given building is based on the skill of the player through a "building minigame
." The more precisely the player can stack the parts of the building, the higher the number of people that can inhabit the building.
The higher population
the city gets, the higher "City level" the city will have, at a maximum of 20. Also, each "City level" has its own name (e.g. Town, City, Metropolis). When the player achieves the defined population by placing a new building, he or she will be notified by a popup window.
During some "City level" achievements, the player will unlock the feature to get buildings with "bonus roof
s" when he or she builds a building of a certain type, with a minimum of a special house population (before placing the roof).
In the highscore, the highest score (population) of "Build city" games is stored.
and other planets as well.
Highscore is stored for the top three best quick games, and this highscore also shows the number of building blocks placed in those games.
Strategy video game
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/puzzle mobile
Mobile game
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video game developed by Digital Chocolate
Digital Chocolate
Digital Chocolate is a video game developer headquartered in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins, the entrepreneur and founder of the video game publishing giant Electronic Arts and founder of The 3DO Company. The company focuses on developing games for mobile phones, iOS,...
.
The game features two types of gameplay, "Build city" and "Quick game". The "Quick game" is a kind of endless mode, as exists in many puzzle games.
Build city
The objective of the "Build city" game mode is to build a cityCity
A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.For example, in the U.S...
with as many inhabitants as possible, building various types of tower
Tower
A tower is a tall structure, usually taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires....
s: Residential (blue), Commercial (red), Office (green), and Luxury (yellow). The number of people that can potentially inhabit any given building is based on the skill of the player through a "building minigame
Minigame
A minigame is a short video game often contained within another video game. A minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained. Minigames are sometimes also offered separately for free to promote the main game...
." The more precisely the player can stack the parts of the building, the higher the number of people that can inhabit the building.
The higher population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
the city gets, the higher "City level" the city will have, at a maximum of 20. Also, each "City level" has its own name (e.g. Town, City, Metropolis). When the player achieves the defined population by placing a new building, he or she will be notified by a popup window.
During some "City level" achievements, the player will unlock the feature to get buildings with "bonus roof
Roof
A roof is the covering on the uppermost part of a building. A roof protects the building and its contents from the effects of weather. Structures that require roofs range from a letter box to a cathedral or stadium, dwellings being the most numerous....
s" when he or she builds a building of a certain type, with a minimum of a special house population (before placing the roof).
In the highscore, the highest score (population) of "Build city" games is stored.
- Blue buildings can be built anywhere, but have the lowest population potential.
- Red buildings have the second lowest population potential, but must be built adjacent to a blue building.
- Green buildings have the second highest population potential, but must be built adjacent to both a red and a blue building
- Yellow buildings have the highest population potential, but must be built adjacent to a red, blue and green building
Quick game
The "Quick game" mode is a kind of endless mode, where the player plays the "building minigame" without any limit on the number of blocks one could place. During the game, the background starts at ground (as in the Build city mode), but gradually reaches higher and higher in air, and if you build far enough, you will pass the moonMoon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
and other planets as well.
Highscore is stored for the top three best quick games, and this highscore also shows the number of building blocks placed in those games.
Platforms
- In August 2007 Digital Chocolate released a FlashAdobe FlashAdobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
version of the game. - A special editions of Tower Bloxx, known as Santa's Tower Bloxx and 3D Santa's Tower Bloxx were also released.
- Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D was released February 2008.
- PC-version of Tower Bloxx Deluxe was released June 2008.
- City Bloxx is an identical version of the game release on the mobile platform. It is bundled for some models of Nokia phones such as nokia 5300, 5310, 5700 and so on.
- A Xbox Live ArcadeXbox Live ArcadeXbox Live Arcade is a type of video game download distribution available primarily in a section of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360, that focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers...
version for the Xbox 360Xbox 360The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
titled Tower Bloxx Deluxe was released on October 21, 2009. - A version for the Windows Phone 7Windows Phone 7Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...
was released on January 4, 2011.
External links
- Digital Chocolate website
- Website where you can play the Flash version
- Review from GameSpotGameSpotGameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. The site was launched in May 1, 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. It was purchased by ZDNet, a brand which was later purchased by CNET Networks. CBS Interactive, which...
- 3D-version Review from PocketGamer
- Official site of Tower Bloxx Deluxe PC-version
- Tower Bloxx for Mobile, Developer Postmortem