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Bloxels: Build Your Own Games

A Tier

Excellent

4.427.8K ratings

4.1recent reviews

FreeIn-App Purchases

6mosince update

Adventure game

Education
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9+age rating

1language

Made for iPhone

Made for iPad

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What is Bloxels?

Makes pixel art characters and no-code top-down or side-view video games, which can be published to the Bloxels Arcade.

Bloxels lets users create pixel art characters, art, and games without writing code. Games can be top-down adventures or side-view platformers, built from blocks such as terrain, hazards, enemies, doors, keys, and story dialogue. Finished games can be published to the Bloxels Arcade, where users can play games made by others.

Pricing. Bloxels is free to download, with in-app purchases on the App Store.

Good for

Making pixel art and exporting it as a GIF
Building a platformer or top-down game without code
Educators using standards-aligned activities for K to 12 grades

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Why this app is in A tier

85/100The average of 4 parts, with no weights

Rating80

Ratings84

App Store search rank96

Update recency81

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Description

Anyone can make a video game with Bloxels.

YOUR CHARACTERS: Create your own pixel art characters. Give them special powers in the Character Lab. Customize power-ups to change their size, speed, and abilities.

YOUR ART & ANIMATIONS: Create your own pixel art to decorate your game worlds, or customize free-to-use assets, including pirates, ninjas, and even pigeons. Export your art to share it as a GIF!

YOUR GAMES: Build top-down adventures or side-view platformer games, without any code. Configure everything about your games with simple but powerful behaviors and blocks. Blocks include terrain, hazards, enemies, collectibles, liquid, power-ups, action blocks, and story blocks for adding dialogue. Create logic puzzles with doors and keys, triggers, warps, and more.

THE ARCADE: Publish your games to the Bloxels Arcade, and share the link to promote your game. Play any of the thousands of games in the Arcade for more inspiration.

FREE PLAY: Play any Bloxels game in the Arcade for free. Get a Bloxels subscription to build and publish your own games. A Bloxels account code is included in the Official Bloxels Build Your Own Video Game Kit. For more information go to bloxels.com.

Bloxels & Education: Are you an educator? Bloxels EDU plans include added features and resources specifically for education. Educator plans include access to the EDU Hub, where you can see and showcase student work, and access resources, including standards-aligned activities across subjects and grade levels K-12. Learn more at bloxels.com/education

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Questions about Bloxels

Is the app free?

The listing shows the app as free. Playing any Bloxels game in the Arcade is free. Building and publishing your own games requires a Bloxels subscription.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The listing says games are built without any code, using blocks and configurable behaviors.

How do I get a subscription?

A Bloxels account code is included in the Official Bloxels Build Your Own Video Game Kit. More information is available at bloxels.com.

Is Bloxels right for me?

Bloxels is built for making pixel art and exporting it as a GIF, building a platformer or top-down game without code, educators using standards-aligned activities for K to 12 grades. It sits in the game development list on AppTierList.

Is Bloxels worth it?

Bloxels is A tier, ranked #4 of 6 game development apps with a score of 85 out of 100, from a 4.4 App Store rating across 27,754 ratings. It is in the list's top tiers; 3 apps rank above it.

How does Bloxels compare to GDevelop?

Bloxels is A tier at 85; GDevelop is A tier at 88. GDevelop ranks higher. Bloxels is free to download, with in-app purchases, GDevelop is free to download, with in-app purchases.