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Blocks That Matter

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Blocks That Matter
Blocks That Matter cover
Developers
Swing Swing Submarine
Release dates
Windows August 20, 2011
macOS (OS X) August 20, 2011
Linux September 7, 2011
Reception
Metacritic 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Scrolling, Side view
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform, Puzzle
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Fantasy
Blocks That Matter on HowLongToBeat
Blocks That Matter on IGDB
Blocks That Matter on MobyGames
Blocks That Matter on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Tutorial: How to add a custom text database to the game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
Purchase via Humble Widget.
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config\[Note 1]
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\BlocksThatMatterUserDatas\config\
macOS (OS X)
Linux $HOME/.BlocksThatMatterUserDatas/
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Blocks That Matter Save\[Note 1]
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\BlocksThatMatterUserDatas\Blocks That Matter Save\
macOS (OS X)
Linux $HOME/.BlocksThatMatterUserDatas/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud
Syncs save games.

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Vert- in behavior. See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
Pillarboxed.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Limited resolution settings; see Windowed to set it manually.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Windowed to set the resolution, then use a borderless method.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Disable it by setting the vsync value to 0 in DisplayOptions.xml.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
May require disabling Vsync in DisplayOptions.xml.

Windowed

Edit DisplayOptions.xml[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open DisplayOptions.xml.
  3. Set the fullscreen value to 0.
  4. Set the values of windowedWidth and windowedHeight to the desired resolution.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Single volume slider only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page.
Czech
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page.
French
German
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page.
Italian
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page.
Japanese
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page – delete by authors.
Korean
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page.
Portuguese
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page.
Russian
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page and ZoG-installer.
Spanish
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page.
Turkish
Fan translation, Steam Workshop page

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 1.2
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Leopard
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) Intel HD Graphics
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 12.10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Sound (audio device) Integrated chipset OpenAL compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References