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Bloxels is designed to empower

young game designers, artists, story

tellers, and kids alike to create their

own video games.

Meet Bloxels®, a ﬁrst of its kind

technology that enables you to build,

capture, design, play and share your

very own video games. Designed with

blocks, a universal element of

childhood play, Bloxels cultivates

imagination while encouraging discovery

and exploration.

With Bloxels, you can realize your own

video game ideas, build and animate

original characters, develop villains, add

in power-ups, and more - all done

directly on the Bloxels® Gameboard and

then activated with the FREE Bloxels®

Builder App and your mobile device.

INTRODUCTION GUIDE TO BLOXELS

This demo script is great for 20-30 minute Bloxels product

demonstrations to groups of 5-20 who are interested in

learning the basics of Bloxels. It requires just 1 Bloxels

Starter Kit and 1 tablet. The prep time is roughly 1 hour.

Summary of content (13 pages)

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INTRODUCTION GUIDE TO BLOXELS Bloxels is designed to empower young game designers, artists, story tellers, and kids alike to create their own video games. Meet Bloxels®, a first of its kind technology that enables you to build, capture, design, play and share your very own video games. Designed with blocks, a universal element of childhood play, Bloxels cultivates imagination while encouraging discovery and exploration.
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BEFORE THE DEMO A few tips for using the Bloxels App & for demoing how it works. 1 KNOW THE APP Get familiar with the different areas of the Bloxels App and how they work together. Building level layouts, art, characters, backgrounds, and animations and then bringing them together for a full game experience. 2 KNOW THE TYPE OF GAME YOU ARE CREATING 3 MEMORIZE YOUR DEMO FLOW There are many different types of video games. With Bloxels you can create platformer style games.
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DEMO DAY PREP Getting ready to demo and show off Bloxels 1 SET UP YOUR SPACE Make sure you are on a white table and have good lighting. Do a “test” capture with a level layout on the Bloxels board and with the Bloxels App. Assure that capturing your board is accurate. Capturing the gameboard at an angle generally works best.* 2 CREATE A LAYOUT 3 CHARGE YOUR DEVICE Have a game layout ready for the demo. Make sure to use all 8 colors and know their meaning.
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EVENT SCRIPT: INTRODUCTION & DEMO Use this format for what to do and say when demoing Bloxels. DO THIS SAY THIS Welcome everyone & introduce yourself. On behalf of Barnes & Noble and Pixel Press, we would like to welcome you. My name is ______ and today we are going to be creating our very own video game with Bloxels. Discuss what all you can do with Bloxels. Bloxels is a tool that allows you to create your own platformer video games using physical blocks, a Bloxels board, and the Bloxels App.
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GAME LAYOUTS Sharing your pre-made game layout DO THIS SAY THIS Hold up your pre-made game layout that has all 8 colors used. Make sure everyone see's this. We will first create a game layout for our run and jump video game. Each color represents a different video game element. Green is your terrain or ground, your character can run and jump on this. Red is a hazard, this can be a lava pit or spikes but it hurts your player when touched. Blue is water, your character can swim in this.
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CAPTURING GAME LAYOUTS How to capture your game DO THIS SAY THIS Open the App and go to “Start Creating”. Select the Build New Game button. Open the Bloxels App and select the Start Creating button. Tap the Build New Game button. Show the screen with all of the plusses and explain that you can keep adding rooms/boards to make your game bigger. You can now see all of these plusses that you can add rooms/boards to. This allows you to create bigger worlds.
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PLAYING YOUR GAME How to play your game DO THIS SAY THIS Hit the play button in the bottom right corner of the App. Run and jump through your level, collect coins, defeat enemies and show off your creation. After you capture your level, select the green checkmark. You can now play the game that was just on your board. Hit the play button in the bottom right corner of the App. Run and jump through your level, collect coins, defeat enemies and show off your creation.
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DECORATING YOUR GAME Decorating your game layout DO THIS SAY THIS Tap the pause button and back out of your game to the editor. Now that we have created a room in our game we don't want to leave it looking like blocks. You can now create pixel art to add textures and art to your game layout. Tap the decorate tab at the bottom of the screen. Use pixel art from the boards library and the animations library tabs to decorate the level you just built.
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DECORATING YOUR GAME Decorating your game layout DO THIS SAY THIS Decorate the ground, coins, enemies, hazards, etc. Everything in your game can be decorated with pixel art that you create! Select the background button in the lower right within the decorate tab and add a background. Select the background button within the decorate tab in the lower right and add a background.
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CONFIGURING YOUR GAME How to configure your game DO THIS SAY THIS Tap the Configure button at the bottom of the editor. Tap & change a power-up. We have created a game layout. We have decorated and added art to some of the level elements. We have also added a background. Tap & change a power-up. We have also added a background. Now we want to configure some of the objects in the game. When you select a power-up you can make it a bomb, extra health, a jet pack, a map, shrink potion, or invincibility.
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ADDING A CHARACTER How to add a character DO THIS SAY THIS Tap the character icon within the configure tab. Select a completed character that has an idle, run and jump animation. Now we are just missing one thing in our game. Its our character! From the configure tab you can select the character button. Select a character from your library on the left. Select a spot in the game to place the character. You can now drop him in your game and decide where you want to start.
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SHARING & CLOSING Finishing the Demo DO THIS Tap the menu icon in the top right and then tap the infinity wall icon and show the infinity wall to everyone. SAY THIS After you create a game you can share it within the Bloxels App on the Infinity Wall. This is a place to share art, characters, animations, backgrounds, and completed games. You can use creations from other users and earn coins when they use your creations. Bloxels is a complete game building experience.
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for more information including video tutorials visit explore.BloxelsBuilder.com Pixel Press makes games for both sides of your brain. By merging the physical and digital worlds, we develop boundless experiences that empower people of all ages to create, share and play.