The Game

Get ready for some old-school gaming with Gamelab's X-Pod Play Off game. Launched in spring 2004 by LEGO, X-Pods are small containers of LEGO bricks in 4 different colors. X-Pod Play Off uses LEGO X-Pods as the raw materials for a 2-player strategy boardgame. Played entirely off of the computer, in X-Pod Play Off, you deconstruct and reconstruct LEGO robots, creatures, flying machines, and land vehicles. Part chess, part collectible card game, and part creative construction exercise, X-Pod Play Off brings LEGO building to a whole new level.

The Design

When LEGO approached us about making an X-Pod game, they had already been designed: little jars of color-coordinated and LEGO bricks. We sold them on making not another web game, but a real-world strategy game instead. Different units have different movement and attacking abilities, including the power to deconstruct opponents. But then, of course, you can use those discarded bricks to build new units! We still love this project’s LEGO-meets-Magic: The Gathering game design.

Download everything you need to play at www.lego.com/xpod