The Game

LEGO Stack-It is an addictive singleplayer game of fast-paced building action we designed for Microsoft's Gaming Zone. In Stack-It, you build a structure of LEGO bricks, avoiding obstacles as you climb into outer space to reach the goal line. Rescue the floating crates of bricks to maintain your building supplies, but be careful! If your structure scrolls out of view, you lose. How high can you go before you run out of bricks? With its playful visual and audio design, LEGO Stack-It is stacked full of pop style and elegant gameplay.

The Design

LEGO Stack-It makes use of the established Junkbot interactivity to deliver a more frantic, real-time building game. Originally, the graphics had a more architectural focus, but the game reached Beta shortly after September 11, and LEGO decided that any game about buildings was too sensitive a topic at the time. The resulting aesthetic shift gave the game a more abstract look and feel, which contributes to the somewhat surreal flavor of the game.