Blocks That Matter
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| Developers | |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Developer website | |
Purchase via Humble Widget. | |
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| GOG.com | |
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| Humble Store | |
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| Steam | |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
| Steam Cloud | Syncs save games. |
Video
General settings.
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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| 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. |
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| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | May require disabling Vsync in DisplayOptions.xml. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Windowed
| Edit DisplayOptions.xml[citation needed] |
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Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| OpenGL | 1.2 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| macOS (OS X) | |||
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Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Audio | OpenAL |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | XP | 7 |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 4 | Intel Core 2 |
| System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 250 MB | 400 MB |
| Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | 256 MB of VRAM |
| macOS (OS X) | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | Leopard | Snow Leopard |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 | |
| System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 250 MB | 400 MB |
| Video card (GPU) | Intel HD Graphics | AMD Radeon HD |
| Linux | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 12.10 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 | |
| System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 250 MB | 400 MB |
| Sound (audio device) | Integrated chipset OpenAL compatible | |
Notes
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).