Village Green
Cottages round a green, a well, hedgerows and a lane
Apps · BlockParty
Build a place that is actually somewhere.
Pick a spot on Earth. BlockParty pins a voxel world to those coordinates, puts the real streets under your feet and the sun where it genuinely is for that place and this hour. Build on it with everyone in the room, in a browser, with nothing installed — and it is still standing when you come back.
Nothing to install Peer to peer The world persists
In the demo: Worlds & room → Pin to my location or Travel here → Draw this place. All the paths →
15
game modes
six of them work alone
18
maps built in
caves, a school, an airport
161 × 161
blocks per world
and forty high
1 m – 250 km
per block
the whole scale ladder
Follow along
Every screen below, and where it hides in the demo
Nothing on this page is a mock-up — but almost none of it is on screen when you arrive. A new room opens on an empty world with a build toolbar, and everything else lives behind two buttons in the top bar. Open the demo beside this page and work down the list.
Press Connect on the card that greets you — the name, room and password are already filled in. You are on your own in there, which also makes you the host, so every control below is yours to press.
The world standing on real streets
Worlds & room → Pin to my location, or type coordinates and press Travel here → pick a Ground (Coastline or Ground & sea) → Draw this place. The strip at the top of the picture above names the place and the scale it was drawn at.
The eighteen maps, and the fifty real places
Worlds & room → scroll to Load a map. Three tabs: Built in · 18, Real places · 50, and Saved here, which fills up with whatever this room has kept. Below them, Or make one builds a map From a picture, From a real place or From a save.
The scale ladder
Worlds & room → the dropdown beside Pin to my location. Eight rungs, from Street · 1 m per block up to Planet · 250 km. The world stays 161 × 161 blocks at every rung — only what a block means changes.
A photo turned into a building
Worlds & room → Or make one → the From a picture card. Brightness becomes height, so a light sky and a dark skyline come out as a ridge line.
The 15 modes
Play in the top bar. The picker lists all 15 with rounds, blueprint source and round time along the top. Six run with one player: Blueprint Race, Where on Earth, Team Build, Memory Match, Earthquake and Demolition Party. Voxel Charades and Territory need two. Relay Sculptors, Postcard, Saboteur and Block Rush need three — the picker greys those out and says “Needs 3+ players — you have 1” rather than letting you start something that cannot finish. That is the likeliest reason a mode on this page looks missing.
Getting a second and third player
Share copies the room link. Open it in another tab, another window, or on your phone — each one joins as a separate player, which is enough to unlock every mode. No account, no install.
Memory Match and Postcard, round by round
Play → Memory Match (works alone) or Postcard (needs three, because the room votes and you cannot vote for yourself). The scoreboards further down this page are what appears when the round ends.
The time-lapse
Worlds & room → Time-lapse → Play the time-lapse. It replays the room from whatever it looked like when you arrived, on your screen only — build something first or it has nothing to show.
The map under your feet
Map (or press N) opens the minimap, with the coastline, the lat/lon grid, what has been built and where everyone is standing. Walk (or G) drops you into the world in first person to walk it.
What people make
Eighteen places to start, before anyone lays a brick
Every map is generated from a fixed seed, so it is the same scene every time — somewhere to play in, or a foundation to build on. These are six of them, straight out of the game.
Harbour
Deep water, a working quay, cranes and boats at their moorings
Castle Keep
Curtain walls, corner towers, a gatehouse and a moat
Old Town Street
A parade of shops you can walk into — a bakery, a bookshop
Winter Village
Snow on the roofs, a frozen pond, lit lanterns and snowmen
Speedway
A banked oval, pit boxes, a grandstand and a start-finish gantry
The ground
The map is under your feet, not in the corner
Anchor a world and the floor knows where it is: the real coastline, or the real streets, parks and building footprints, stitched from map tiles at that world's own scale — and carried out across the plain that runs nine worlds further in every direction.
- Plain, coastline or streets — your choice, and it is a picture rather than a hundred thousand cubes to clear
- Draw this place turns those footprints into blocks you can actually build on
- Zoom is the scale ladder: a metre a block up to 250 km, each rung its own saved world
- The minimap stays offline on purpose — it draws its coastline from a file that ships with the game
In the demo: the Worlds button in the top bar (it opens Worlds & room). All the paths →
Scale
Zooming out means a block covers more ground
The camera has a limit, and past it "see more" stops being a camera move: a world is one tile of the Earth at one scale, which is exactly why two rooms standing in the same place see the same world. So zoom is a ladder, and every rung is its own saved world — move in a rung and your street is still a street, not a shrunken county.
Every world is 161 × 161 blocks and 40 high, at every rung. The size is part of the address.
- 1 m Street 161 m across
- 2 m Block 322 m across
- 5 m Neighbourhood 805 m across
- 20 m District 3.2 km across
- 100 m City 16 km across
- 1 km Region 161 km across
- 20 km Continent 3,220 km across
- 250 km Planet the whole Earth
In the demo: Worlds & room → Or make one → the From a picture card. All the paths →
Bring your own
Point at a photo, get a building
Drop in a picture and BlockParty reads its shape as well as its colours: the background is flood-filled away, depth is read off the brightness, and every column is pushed back by how far away it looks. What you get is a painted shell you can walk around.
- Five styles: mural, mosaic, relief, solid relief, or terrain read as a heightfield
- True colour, or dithered down to the twelve you build with
- It never leaves your browser, and it arrives as one edit — so one undo takes it back out
- One photograph knows the front of a thing. Walk behind it and it is a shell — that is the honest ceiling
Modes
Fifteen ways to build, race and laugh together
Every mode runs in the same world, on the same blocks, and starts from the same button. Six of them work with one player; one of them works best when nobody trusts anybody.
📐
Solo ok
Blueprint Race
Copy the model before the clock beats you.
🖼
New
Postcard
One picture, no model. Build what you think it shows.
🕵
New
Saboteur
Build it together — while one of you quietly wrecks it.
🧠
Solo ok
Memory Match
Study it, lose it, draw it back from memory.
🤫
2+
Voxel Charades
Sculpt the word. No words allowed.
🎽
3+
Relay Sculptors
Three sculptors, one statue, one word.
🌍
Solo ok
Where on Earth
You are somewhere real. Work out where.
🤝
Solo ok
Team Build
One plot, everyone at once, one model.
⚡
3+
Block Rush
Sixty seconds on a prompt, then the room votes.
🚩
2+
Territory
Take ground off each other, block by block.
🌋
Solo ok
Earthquake
Build tall on a budget. Then the ground moves.
🧨
Solo ok
Demolition Party
A town goes up. You bring it down.
🎞
Any
Time-lapse
Not a match — watch the world get built again.
In the demo: Play in the top bar. All the paths →
A round of Memory Match
Study it, lose it, draw it back
One player builds while the room watches. Then it is taken away and everybody rebuilds it from memory — and at the end you find out which part you actually got wrong.
Somebody builds it
The architect ends their own turn when they are done, so nobody watches an empty stage.
Then it is gone
A flashback outlines the shape mid-round — no colours. Remembering what shape it was stops being the whole game.
What you got wrong
The score was always these three things. This is the first time you get to see which one cost you.
In the demo: Play → Postcard. It needs three players — Share copies the room link, and each tab you open in joins as another player. All the paths →
One of the twelve pictures, full size: sixteen squares across, in the same twelve colours you build with — small enough that a late joiner gets it for free, and coarse enough that what it shows remains your call.
Postcard · new
One picture. No model to copy.
Everyone gets the same picture and nothing else — no ghost, no blueprint, no cell-for-cell target. Work out what it shows, build that in three dimensions, and the room votes for the one it likes best. What the picture is called is only revealed at the end.
- Twelve pictures ship with the game
- Plots stay covered until the reveal
- Three players, because you cannot vote for yourself
Somewhere to start
Eighteen maps, fifty real places, and whatever you saved
Nobody should have to start on an empty floor. Load a map, travel to a real place and have the ground traced from the map, or open something the room built last week — they are all in the same list.
In the demo: Worlds & room → scroll to Load a map. All the paths →
Village GreenCottages, a well, a lane
DowntownBlocks, crossroads, towers
HarbourQuays, cranes, moorings
Pine ForestConifers and a campfire
Winter VillageSnow, lanterns, a frozen pond
Crystal CavesTunnels and an underground lake
Village SchoolClassrooms, a hall, a yard
International AirportRunway, terminal, aircraft
Built in · 18
Real places · 50
Saved by this room
From a picture
Everyone joins free. Standard Party Night has three games. A paid Host Pass unlocks five-game event playlists, verified by the server.
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