Ninth Street
Where Joey grew up, and where Ninth Street runs the corners.
Brick & Signal presents
A crime strategy game about a painter, his dead brother’s block, and a ledger worth his whole family.
- In your browser now
- Coming to iPhone
- Five acts · Fourteen endings
Your tag is your flag
The first thing you do is pick a name and paint it.
You are Joey, nineteen. Three years ago your brother Dre was killed and everybody said Ninth Street did it. Your piece follows you through the whole game. It goes up on every block you take, and where it ends up on the rail bridge, next to Dre’s or under it, depends on how you finish.
- Red brick
- Store shutter
- Boxcar
- Handball court
The hood has sides
Four sides of town. Four ways of saying no.
You take the hood back one block at a time: a crew on the corners, product from the connect on each side of town, and fights you watch and call yourself.
Vic’s
A jazz club, soul food and a barbershop.
Madam Oh
A pharmacy out front. The real business is in the back room.
Uptown
The Professor sells out of the back of his gallery.
The reason to finish
Find out what happened to your family.
Every ending is about which man Joey turns into. That’s why people talk about them afterwards.
OPEN
Precinct file · Joey
- Father
- In County, nine years.
- Mother
- Hospital, the night after. That’s what Dre said.
- Brother
- Dre. Killed three years ago.
- Lives
- With Uncle Lou, two doors down.
The folder gets thicker every time somebody says your name.
Watch it play
Held upright. Played with one thumb.
Trailer
The story, the block, the night it ended.Gameplay · Act 1
Two minutes of a real Act 1 run: corners, crews and a fight.
Next from the studio · In development
Gatebound
A dark, consequence-driven hunter RPG. Clear the gates, climb the ranks from F to S, and build a guild that outlives your hunters. Permadeath. Hard but fair. Fully offline, on iPhone.
The studio
One person. Built after hours.
Brick & Signal is an independent game studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, run by Manny Mendoza. I’ve wanted to make games since I was a kid. Block by Block took a year of design, and I built it on my own, using AI tools along the way for the art, the music and the code.
Press, partners and players: write any time.
manny@brickandsignal.com