Blokz (video game)

Blokz is an openworld multiplayer sandbox game released on April 4, 1999 on PC.

Beta stages:
The game started out as a computer design project where you could place and move different colored blocks in an open enviorment. The game released on April 4, 1999 as BlockBuilder.

1999 - 2002:
The first game was created the same day the website went live. It was called Cool puzzle i made in under ten minutes. It got 3 visits within the first day. In 2000, the website reached 50 players and in 2002, it reached 100 players. Also in 2002, the website had 50 games.

2002 - 2008:
In late 2002, the website was renamed to Blokz. In 2003, the game was ported to the Nintendo GameCube. It came bundled with the GameCube Online add on and a 1 year subscription to the GameCube Online service. In 2006, the game reached 10,000 players (including GameCube players) and 100,000 games. In 2008, the official Blokz YouTube account was created. Also in 2008, the GameCube version was shut down, along with the GameCube Online service.

2008 - Present:
In 2008, friends were added to the game. In 2008, the game recieved a new logo. In 2008, the game revieved a huge spike in popularity, recieving 146,849 new players in just one day, and recieving 5,997,679 new players throughout the year. In 2012, the Nintendo 3DS version of the game was released. A year later in early 2013, the mobile version was released on iOS and Android. Another huge spike in popularity happened in 2016, recieving 96,505,289 new players and over 1 billion games. In 2018, the game was ported to the PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.