It doesn’t - but it does allows you to rotate your perspective around that character. My initial instinct was to play with the circle-and-arrow icon that appears around the selected character, thinking that would make the character move. Here's the thing about this app: it’s not immediately obvious how its controls work.

To select the color of your blocks or paint, tap an icon in the top right corner to access a color wheel. (You can also turn off the paint function so that the character can move without releasing any paint.) Jum-Jum sprays paint at a target, which you can move onto your block creations or anywhere on the platform. Cooper balances on a ball of paint, which you can roll to paint the ground. Connie, a crane-like builder, took me the longest to figure out: in order to lower blocks onto a surface, those blocks have to be retrieved from elsewhere, which means moving back and forth between a source of blocks and your current building site.Ĭooper and Jum-Jum are painters. If Stretch is below an existing block when you tap the block icon, it will explode. Stretch has exactly the sort of neck you’d imagine from that name turn a dial to expand or contract it and place a block anywhere, even in midair. Blox can lay out blocks from an apparently limitless supply in a backpack, or smash them with mallets into a cloud of realistic-looking dust. The Vex character jumps, releasing blocks from its feet.

The six builder characters (whose names and attributes are listed in the section for parents) have different construction-related abilities. Each grid floats in what appears to be water neither the builders nor the blocks are able to move beyond the edge. That work involves constructing towers (or whatever you want) with colored blocks and painting these structures and/or the space around them. Toca Builders (Toca Boca, May 2016 iOS and Android) opens with a choice of an empty platform or one of several options where work has already started.

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