Yesterday, we announced the Chocolate Update of Blocks That Matter.
Yesterday, a new Humble Bundle appeared, introducing Voxatron from Lexaloffle Games. What’s the link between the stories?

Well,the Chocolate Update is based on “Chocolate Castle“, another game by Lexaloffle Games. And there’s more…

Blocks That Matter is now part of the Humble Voxatron Debut, beside The Binding of Isaac. Visit the Humble Bundle website and name your price!

Note that the original soundtracks of Blocks That Matter (by Morusque) and The Binding of Isaac (by DannyB) are also included in the bundle.

Last week, we organized a small ASCII art contest to celebrate the Linux version of Blocks That Matter properly and its recent release on Gameolith. We received something like 20 entries and this is really great considering the difficulty of the contest and the short period.

The 10 winners have been divided in two categories, “Probably Handmade ASCII art” (n°1 to 5) and “Probably Assisted ASCII art” (n°6 to 10). They win a code to download Blocks That Matter – Linux version on Gameolith for free.

N°1
“Level 004 – Self Testing” ASCII version (FRiZ)

Lazy, lazy developers!

The most “penguins” of you already know that Blocks That Matter is available on Windows, Mac and Linux through various websites, but for some reason (being really busy at work) we never screamed to the world the fact that the game is REALLY available on Linux and that it’s quite awesome. Well, the fact that the game has been released on Gameolith today could be a great way to make a little something for Linux users.
So, let’s do this, let’s celebrate: it’s contest time!

Linux users, you all know how to have pleasure playing with this, right?

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Well, that’s the first Linux game Guillaume ever wrote: a Tic-Tac-Toe. A cutting edge ASCII art game! Well, it’s time to let us know your skill in making pictures with texts. No no, not literacy: ASCII ART.

Since we released Blocks That Matter on Windows / Mac / Linux last month, something is missing: a playable demo. Yes, we’ve already made a Tech Demo and it would have been really easy to create a version of the game with few levels, but if you follow this devblog since the beginning you should know we love to make strange things sometimes.

That’s why we decided to craft a special demo version that is not exactly the beginning of the game, includes few exclusive levels and 4 brand new BTMs to collect. One of these blocks celebrates the upcoming block-breaking Wizorb developed by Tribute Games.

So, do you want to try Blocks That Matter and see if it deserves to be played in its full version? Visit the BTM store page on Steam and click on “Download Demo”:

But if you already own the full game on Steam, the system will not allow you to download the demo. Don’t worry, you can still download it from IndieDB following this link: