Block Party
Launching today
Collect, Combine, Create: We gamify creativity with AI!
5.0•15 reviews•196 followers
Block Party is the first AI-native world building game. The real-world map started off as a blank canvas, but has been transformed into a whole new world. Players have purchased land, collected cards, and combined them to create new places for you to explore.
We built Block Party because we’re gamers who have always wondered what it would be like if a game world were generated by its players. When image models like Dall-E and Flux came out, we experienced the joy of being able to generate any image you could imagine, but we also knew from experience that sitting in front of a Midjourney or ChatGPT text box was paralyzing. We felt that creating with AI could become a lot easier by gamifying it, and building simple and delightful UX around it.
What has really worked for us:
Human-Model Interaction: Block Party is the easiest way to interact with an image model leveraging cards and simple modifier switches. Players have control and are able to see out their intended creations, but are able to do so without prompt engineering.
Game Item Generation: All game items are generated using AI. This allows us to add 50 new items a week in minutes, not days.
Constraints Birth Magic: Players’s outputs are constrained by their inventory and the input modifiers. Players have to navigate a latent space for how the cards work and figure out how to leverage them to get the outputs they are seeking, which has led to some really amazing creation.
Variable Rewards: Every time we take an action like opening a drop or creating something new we are excited to see what comes of it. This variable reward makes for a strong game loop.
What we've found difficult:
Content Control: Image models have a mind of their own sometimes and we’d be lying if we said there weren’t images generated that were NSFW, contained copyrighted material, or drifted away from our trained art style. Our solution has largely been to rely on user-reported content moderation, but in the future intend to leverage LLM’s to support this.
Choosing the Right Art Style and Sticking with It: For the game to feel consistent, we’ve trained a LoRA on an art style to use throughout the game. It’s often tempting to add more art styles, but doing so in a clean way that is coherent with the game is a challenge.
Please give the game a try and let us know what you think!
What's working for you?
What could be improved?
We'd love to hear your feedback.
@anthony_parente2 More avatar slots when?
@generaltso More avatar slots will be available within the next week!
@anthony_parente2 This is my number one game right now! Awesome community and a next generation mobile game design embracing AI in the best way.
@anthony_parente2 Been playing for a long time and can’t be more satisfied, but you Could enhance the property owning aspect, some rewards for holding property especially in high real estate?
I LOVE Block Party!
I’ve never played a video game in my life and I am absolutely hooked on this one!!
Collecting has been one of my favorite features of the game.
This community is growing so quickly and it’s been so awesome to see and the Devs are working overtime to add new features as the community grows. Love love love it!!!!!
@leanarae Thank you so much Leana! We're glad you are having so much fun playing :)
Started playing this game back in January, haven’t put it down since. Between how much fun the game is and the social community that has grown around it, this is easily one of my favorites.
@mistyyyyyy We're glad you're enjoying and are happy that you're part of our community!