Blicblock is a game your Sims in The Sims 4 can play on the computer. I thought it would be fun to recreate the game. Our Sims shouldn't have all the fun!

BlickblockJS is built using AngularJS, Bower, Yeoman, and Twitter Bootstrap.

• Looks like Tetris meets Bejeweled: colored blocks fall down. Combine them into a tetromino and the tetromino disappears.
• Disappearing tetrominos cause blocks on top of them to fall, which can cause cascades of disappearing tetrominos.
• If the screen fills up and no more blocks can fall, game over.
• Five blocks across, seven tall
• Colors: magenta, yellow, green, blue. Note: since the game board is five blocks wide, to make the game have any challenge at all, there need to be >5 colors of blocks.
• Preview of next two blocks shown

You need Ruby, RubyGems, Bundler, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.

1. bundle

2. Create a blicblockjs role in PostgreSQL:

    % psql
    psql (9.2.1)
    Type "help" for help.
   
    sarah=# CREATE USER blicblockjs WITH PASSWORD 'password';
    CREATE ROLE
    sarah=# ALTER USER blicblockjs WITH SUPERUSER;
    ALTER ROLE
   

   Or via command line: createuser -P -s -e blicblockjs

3. bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate db:seed

4. cd client/

5. npm install

6. npm install -g bower

7. bower install

8. npm install -g grunt-cli

9. grunt serve to watch for file changes and to launch the Rails server.

1. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate
2. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rspec

1. cd client/
2. npm install
3. grunt test

1. Create a new Heroku app in your browser.
2. git remote add heroku [email protected]:yourherokuapp.git
3. heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-ruby.git
4. git push heroku master
5. heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql
6. heroku addons:add pgbackups
7. heroku run rake db:migrate
8. heroku ps:scale web=1
9. heroku config:add NODE_ENV=production

heroku pg:backups capture
curl -o latest.dump `heroku pg:backups public-url`

To load the dump file locally:

pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U blicblockjs -d blicblockjs_development latest.dump

• The Sims 4: Play "BlicBlock" On Your Browser - SimsVIP
• The Sims 4 RU - VK
• The Sims 4: Играем, как симы! - RoleSim
• Znacie grę BlicBlock z The Sims 4? - Sims True Life
• le jeu Sims - Blic Block - débarque chez vous! - SimCookie
• Blicblock, playable version of game depicted in The Sims 4 - RunJumpDev
• Play the game your sims playing - Speak No Evil Tumblr

Video of my Sim playing Blicblock