Current Version: 1.37

Project Status: Maintenance

Highest Popularity: #18 during December 2007

Links: Web Site

Category: Puzzle

Developers: Trent Gamblin

Number of Players: 2 (Split Screen)

Ports: Linux, Windows

Source Code: Available

Author's Description: Stax is a collection of falling blocks games where the object of the game is to keep blocks from reaching the top of the screen, and getting sequences of the same colored blocks to pop those blocks away. Each game has a different way of moving blocks around. There are single player modes as well as two player split screen modes.

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What's New:

1.37
Fixed a bug that made the blocks not blink when they should have been. Made movement accelerate if you hold down a button. Blocks can now be moved in mid-air in the Sucker game.

1.36
Fixed some bugs with the input. New block bitmaps and other graphical improvements. Updated the documentation. Other minor changes.

1.35
Fixed some bugs with the help of Miran Amon. Made a few graphical improvements. Improved the music slightly.

1.3
Changed the Shifty game so you can only swap two blocks at a time. Added new music by Andrew Skrypnyk. Added some graphical effects. Made the input more responsive. added bonus points for popping more than 3 blocks at the
same time.

1.21
Mainly a bugfix release that should now work on slower computers.

1.2
This version is a complete rewrite with a new look and interface.

1.13
Now checks all supported video modes before giving up

1.12
Fixed a bug with the screenshot

1.11
Made the game a lot more difficult by making it so that the bottom row of blocks never comes up popping automatically.

1.1
Fixed several bugs, improved gameplay, and added a high score list

1.04
Fixed a few bugs and added single player mode to all the games.

1.03
Fixed bugs that made the Linux version unable to find the datafiles

1.02
Added a -big command line option to run at 640x400. Made the two player games a little more fair.

1.01
Windows version and other minor updates

• 51.3: This is a nice collection of 3 original games based on the same theme. Looks simple and clean and it's complete with sounds, menus and so on. The gameplay is bit slow though and it has technical issues as it likes to freeze a lot.
  miran
• 8Cool, original ideas in this falling blocks type game. Fun to play, and nice to see something other than the done to death Tetris clones. Would've been even better if the 2-player only gametypes could also be played solo.
  Daniel Schlyder

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