What became known as Bloxorr began in 2006 under the code-name "POBloquer." The idea was the brainchild of Argant-Roland Hervé, a Spilvel engineer from Bethany who coded homebrew computer games as a hobby.
While Spilvel as a company rolled out many new products following its relocation to Plaisance, Saintonge from Hildisey, Prydania in 2002 the "POBloquer" project from 2006 was the first "major project" since the move.
Hervé, among the first of the engineering hires among the company's arrival in Saintonge, began experimenting with reproductions of Spilvel bricks in his homebrew games. The sandbox nature of the experiment convinced him that there was potential in a Spilvel-based video game "system." It was the emphasis on the term "system" that really captured Rochedragon-Höj CEO Charles-Ardouin Lavicomterie de Rochedragon's attention. Hervé was not pitching a video game per se. He was pitching a virtual Spilvel sandbox that also included a catalogue of virtual reproductions of Spilvel's popular properties. Consumers would be drawn in by the promise of video games based on Spilvel's product line but could explore the sandbox nature to build new things and share across the internet. Online gaming had just started to take off, and the promise to carve out a niche for Spilvel was too much for Rochedragon to pass up.
It was, unfortunately, delayed by a number of factors. Rochedragon-Höj did not want to over-extend the company following its relocation, and so the "POBloquer" project was not given a priority for funding. Charles-Ardouin, however, believed in the project and refused to shut it down. He told Argant-Roland to continue to develop "POBloquer" as best he could.
Spilvel continued to grow in Saintinge and "POBloquer" continued to be quietly developed. The break the project needed came in 2012. The smartphone market had grown considerably over the previous five years and smartphone gaming began to take off. The advent of mobile gaming began to eat into the market share and profits of traditional toy companies whose target demographics become more and more tied to phones and tablets rather than physical toys. Spilvel was spared to a degree as the novelty of the building block system still pushed consumers towards physical purchases, but the Rochedragon-Höj board saw the writing on the wall; toy companies would need to embrace digital space or die off.
Charles-Ardouin convinced the board to pour more money and resources into the "POBloquer" project. By 2013 Hervé presented a prototype- Bloxorr.
The first prototype was a virtual reproduction of Spilvel's football minifigures in a football game. Fun animations flashed across the screen as players could switch out the minifigures' torso pieces to choose jersey styles for each team. The demo was well-received by the R-H board and tested well with focus groups. By 2014 the game catalogue was finalized; Spilvel's licensed Bass Pro Shop, Spilvel Football featuring licences from the world's top domestic leagues, Glass Maze, Lootblox!, licensed Quatris games in both Classic and Adventures! styles, Rockband, Skeleton Invasion, and two forms of Trivia; classic and Zombie. The Zombie Trivia and Skeleton Invasion games were rumoured to be included because of Argant-Roland Hervé's love of B-movie horror flicks.
Spilvel's Bloxorr launched in time for the 2014 holiday season, on 2 November across all major platforms. The game continues to be supported today with regular patches and updates through Spilvel Gaming, a subsidiary setup to manage development and support. Bloxorr's mix of free-form play and standard gameplay in a variety of scenarios have kept it popular among children, gamers, and Spilvel fans alike.
Bass Pro Shop
Bass Pro Shops has been providing families with their fishing and outdoor needs for decades! Hop into Bloxorr and take command of BPS Spilvel sets to accumulate as much fish as you can while trying to survive the dangers of the great outdoors!
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Football
Create your own football team and hold matches with your friends! Build the best team ever and climb your way up to the top of the leagues! Spilvel Football also lets you take Spilvel's popular Footballers of the World sets and bring them to life! Fast past arcade-style football action will excite fans of all ages. Play as your own team or teams licensed from the world's top leagues such as the 1° Ligue, HPL, SL, and PFB!
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Glass Maze
You are trapped inside the glass maze. You can see the exit, but all of those glass... is confusing. Can you work your way out to freedom before the maze shatters and you're dropped into the Nexus? The maze is your only way home, but will it lead you there or to your doom?
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Lootblox!
Buy a locker and win its content! Will it give you a jackpot of gold, or will it bring you misery and shame? Find out in Lootblox! Find auctions to compete with cut-throat bidders! Trade what you've won for more goods, or keys to try your luck again!
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Quartris Classic
The classic block puzzle game is live with Spilvel in Bloxorr! Create lines to dissolve pieces to keep the blocks from piling to the top! The further you go the faster the pace. What's your limit, and are you willing to break it?
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Quartris Adventures!
Use your Quartris skills to solve puzzles to unlock magical spells, free princesses, and defeat powerful monsters!
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Rockband
Make a rock band with your friends and create awesome music! Join battles of the bands and win the right to be the best rock band ever! Can you rock out like the stone cold legends of rock 'n roll?
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Trivia
Test your knowledge against the clock! Geography, pop culture, history...it's all here! See how high you can push your score and where your intellectual aptitude ranks from players across the world! Uses state of the art LeanIt technology to always keep the questions new and challenging!
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Zombie Trivia
A freak laboratory accident turned your professor into a trivia-wielding and facts-reciting zombie! It's now survival of the fittest! Weak brains deserve to be zombie fodder. He and his minions had trapped you in his classroom and the only way out is by convincing your professor that your brain is worth more than a zombie buffet. Answer all his increasingly difficult questions correctly and he might just free you!
Your brain: Use it or lose it!
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Skeleton Attack
The dreaded Skeletons are taking over the town! Can you save yourself, your friends, and the townspeople from being eaten by the skellies? Transverse the city to survive!
credit- @Kyle 2020
credit- @Kyle 2020
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credit- @Kyle 2020
credit- @Kyle 2020
OOC Note: A huge thanks to @Kyle, for encouraging me to worldbuild Spilvel, for coming up with the Bloxorr idea, and for taking the pictures used as the basis for the games here! They were pretty intricate and they came out beautifully!