+swlovinist Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Today, with the help of many from the Jaguar community, we offer you a free game to download and play on your Game Drive or Skunkboard(Also works on BigPEmu with Force GD enabled). This has been the hard work from many people who made this happen. I would like to first thank Adam Welch(Second-Dimension) for programming Block'em Sock'em, a joint creation of mine and his for the Sega Genesis. This is a game that will be on other platforms in the future with the SNES game being finished and a possible 7800 port as well. I then approached CyranoJ to see if this was possible for the Atari Jaguar. CyranoJ took this project on for free to then offer to the community. R. Strauss did the music. J. Leal did the graphics. On top of being a free download for GD or Skunkboards, I am also happy to announce that this will be offered on cart in very limited supply(next PRGE) for a very reasonable price. Albert made this possible and I am grateful. Later on, it will be offered in the Atariage store and I am delighted to hear that. I also want to thank the play testers for making this a better game(Machine, neo_rg, Spordic, Saturn, Sauron, and agradeneu) Your goal is to control me through 25 different levels to destroy boxes of the same color. Your goal is to get the block counter below the goal number with a limited number of tosses. If you toss a colored block and it hits another color, then your block will change to that color. There are three difficulty settings. This is to be a fun game enjoyed by many and it was great to offer this to the community to play. Below is a video of me playing this on my channel to help describe visually how to play it. Enjoy the game! BlockEmSockem.rom BlockEmSockEm.mrq 33 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo_rg Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Congratulations on the release. Kudos for the free .ROM download. Looking forward to picking up a cart version from PRGE later this year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+evg2000 Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Hey @swlovinist Game looks great, I just watched the video. Haven't tried it yet as I haven't hooked up the jag yet since we just moved into our house. One thing I did notice is that some of the colors might be hard to distinguish for someone who is colorblind (like me). For future releases it would be nice to consider either having the blocks look slightly different, or have an option to set colors for blocks. But what do you want for free! Thanks for making this happen! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted July 8 Author Share Posted July 8 6 minutes ago, neo_rg said: Congratulations on the release. Kudos for the free .ROM download. Looking forward to picking up a cart version from PRGE later this year. Thank you for helping make this game even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted July 8 Author Share Posted July 8 6 minutes ago, evg2000 said: Hey @swlovinist Game looks great, I just watched the video. Haven't tried it yet as I haven't hooked up the jag yet since we just moved into our house. One thing I did notice is that some of the colors might be hard to distinguish for someone who is colorblind (like me). For future releases it would be nice to consider either having the blocks look slightly different, or have an option to set colors for blocks. But what do you want for free! Thanks for making this happen! Thank you friend for that important info. I will try my best for all updates or different versions to consider that and try to incorporate it into my games. One idea would be to number the blocks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadest Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Differents shapes or symbols on the blocks also works. This is just a POC, so not somtehing that should arrive in the future : (And I dont like the blue/green that seems too close for symbol also) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Thanks John! Will fire it up later tonight, it's always exciting to see new homebrew releases for the Jag. Looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynxEffect Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 This is awesome! I will give this rom a play this evening. One request though is for the MRQ file to go with it, as and when someone has the time to create it? I'm not able to myself, sorry, hence seeing if anyone else can put something together. Many thanks in advance. I will enjoy the game in the meantime - thanks to The Immortal John Hancock!! Will grab some popcorn 🍿 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted July 8 Author Share Posted July 8 51 minutes ago, LynxEffect said: This is awesome! I will give this rom a play this evening. One request though is for the MRQ file to go with it, as and when someone has the time to create it? I'm not able to myself, sorry, hence seeing if anyone else can put something together. Many thanks in advance. I will enjoy the game in the meantime - thanks to The Immortal John Hancock!! Will grab some popcorn 🍿 if someone wants to make a MRQ file, I can add it to the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Saturn Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Thank you for this! Hoping to get the full release soon. Excellent addition to the Jaguar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trabucco Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 (edited) Awesome, thank you and everyone involved for this! Just played it on real hardware on easy, very enjoyable! Will try the higher difficulties next. Looking forward to the cart release and keep my fingers crossed it might include more screens👌🖖 THANKS! Edited July 8 by Trabucco 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+madman Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 Will this game have its own exhibit in the museum? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted July 9 Author Share Posted July 9 52 minutes ago, madman said: Will this game have its own exhibit in the museum? No, but my Jaguar collection will be on display at this year's PRGE. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballistik Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 On 7/8/2023 at 9:23 AM, swlovinist said: Congrats, John! I look forward to playing this! Thanks for all you bring to the vintage gaming community! BB BlockEmSockem.rom 2 MB · 135 downloads 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jag_Mag Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 Looks fun swlovinist,thanks for sharing with us bro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutnutmen Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 Nice little game! I really dig those "reggae feel" tunes 😀 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TrekMD Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 This is cool. Thank you, John! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_JaguarVCS Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 Just played through this on my Atari Jaguar this morning! Great fun the game looks amazing on a crt. I'll definitely be interested in picking this up as a physical release for the Atari Jaguar collection in the future. I'm hoping if this game gets a 7800 release it might be possible to bring it to the Atari VCS 800? I think it would be an ideal fit for the VCS 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 I really, really love the fact two of my favorite developers worked on the same game AND enable new homebrew developers: CyranoJ with the Jaguar port and JagStudio Adam Welch with the Genesis version and SecondBASIC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
42bs Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 On 7/8/2023 at 5:23 PM, swlovinist said: On top of being a free download for GD or Skunkboards It seems not to run on BPE. By accident or by intention? (Or am I just too stupid?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporadic Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 19 minutes ago, 42bs said: It seems not to run on BPE. By accident or by intention? (Or am I just too stupid?) You need to enable the "GD Emulation" option in BPE. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted July 10 Author Share Posted July 10 5 hours ago, Gemintronic said: I really, really love the fact two of my favorite developers worked on the same game AND enable new homebrew developers: CyranoJ with the Jaguar port and JagStudio Adam Welch with the Genesis version and SecondBASIC Add yourself to the people that I enjoy working with friend! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UHATEIT Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 I downloaded and then messed with this on the Game Drive just now, got to Level 13 on easy mode. At first I was a bit lost on what to do but I got the hang of it. Sweet game, anything for the Jaguar is great to see these days. I agree with one of the posters above about the mrq file for the game if someone makes one, I've never figured out the MRQ creation thing myself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Here's the MRQ BlockEmSockEm.mrq 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted July 14 Author Share Posted July 14 MRQ file added to the first post. Thank you so much CyranoJ. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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