October 31, 2002

7:39 PM

Friday Fun (posted early). "Do It Yourself" virtual building blocks (similar to the virtual Legos a while back). Addiction Rating: Mid-Range (no worries--it won't eat your life like Bookworm did). Very simple blocks can make surprisingly beautiful, even complex creations (awfully tough to approximate a Gothic groin vault with the available shapes, but trying's half the fun). (Signup 'membership' is free.)
posted by Shane (7 comments total)

Wow, I like the builder, I've been designing (on and off) a lego-like building environment for a few years (backburner thing, mindstorms kind of takes too much time), and I really like the level-control, simple, straighforward and easy-to-use.
posted by jkaczor at 7:52 PM on October 31, 2002

It's pretty cool except I could not get it to load in mozilla, worked fine in IE though...
posted by BackwardsHatClub at 9:34 PM on October 31, 2002

For anyone playing this, there is another glitch. If you sign up and build something then save it, it doesn't seem to save properly unless you enter something in the 'comments' section. It actually does save, but the 'save' window refuses to disappear, prompting you to hit 'save' again, resulting in the same creation being saved multiple times in the gallery.

Just a heads up, if anyone's listening.
posted by Shane at 7:43 AM on November 1, 2002

miguel said "groin."
posted by crunchland at 7:58 AM on November 1, 2002

oops. I could have sworn miguel posted this. wishful thinking, I guess.
posted by crunchland at 10:14 AM on November 1, 2002

oops. I could have sworn miguel posted this...

It was this sentence, wasn't it? It's "Miguelesque": Very simple blocks can make surprisingly beautiful, even complex creations (awfully tough to approximate a Gothic groin vault...

...wishful thinking, I guess.

-sigh- Just can't compete with Miguel. What is it I need? A smoking jacket, cigar, mustache? Please advise...
posted by Shane at 12:17 PM on November 1, 2002

look at this great model!
posted by Satapher at 5:05 PM on November 1, 2002