THE 3D PIT CONCEPT

You are looking straight down into a vertical rectangular pit shaft. Polycubes fall from the top opening towards the bottom floor.

OBJECTIVE: CLEAR LAYERS

Completely fill any horizontal plane (width × height) with cubes. When a full layer is completed, it flashes, clears, and all cubes above it drop down!

3D KEYBOARD CONTROLS

• ← → ↑ ↓ : Move piece across the X and Y grid
• Q / A : Roll (Spin Clockwise / Counter-clockwise along Z-axis)
• W / S : Pitch (Tilt Forward / Backward along X-axis)
• E / D : Yaw (Turn Left / Right along Y-axis)
• SPACEBAR : Hard Drop (Instantly slam piece down to the floor)
• SHIFT : Soft Drop (Accelerate descent)
• P / ESC : Pause / Abandon Game

MYSTERY & BONUS DROPS

Keep an eye out for surprise mystery drops!

• Golden Salvage 1×1 Cube: Slips into tricky gaps to complete and rescue deep layers!
• Mystery Detonator Bomb: Explodes on landing with a booming blast, vaporizing several surrounding blocks in a fiery crater!

LEVEL UP

Every 5 cleared layers advances you to the next speed level, rewarded with a sparkling XP chime!

AUTHENTIC CLONE STATEMENT

DropOut! is an authentic web clone of the legendary 1989 DOS game Block Out.

It faithfully recreates the original's top-down perspective shaft, 3D polycube mechanics, wireframe aesthetics, and challenging rotational kinematics for modern web browsers.

ORIGINAL BLOCK OUT CREDITS

Original Game: Block Out

Designers / Authors: Aleksander Ustaszewski & Mirosław Zabłocki

Original Publisher: California Dreams (1989)

All trademarks and original game concepts of Block Out belong to their respective original creators and California Dreams.

WEB ARCHITECTURE

• 3D Engine: Three.js (r128) WebGL perspective renderer with authentic vector wireframe tunnel and phong-shaded voxels.
• Physics Engine: 3D discrete spatial voxel collision detection, 3-axis rotational wall-kicks, and gravity cascade physics.
• Audio Synthesizer: Pure Web Audio API retro sound synthesis (including block impact thuds, Minecraft-style XP orb chime for level-ups, and procedural 8-bit/16-bit chiptune music).
• Web Server: Tailored for Apache XAMPP environment with optional PHP scores API.

HOW TO INCORPORATE YOUR OWN MUSIC

You can easily add your own soundtrack to the game! Simply place your MP3 files into the assets/audio/ folder:

• start_music.mp3 — Start Game / Intro Screen Music
• game_music_1.mp3 — Gameplay Track 1 ("Pit Master")
• game_music_2.mp3 — Gameplay Track 2 ("Deep Wireframe")
• game_music_3.mp3 — Gameplay Track 3 ("Retro Velocity")

If no external files are placed, the built-in procedural synthesizer plays automatically!