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Cool! I made a demo playable in the browser: https://repl.it/@amasad/tinytetris Or run it directly here: https://tinytetris.amasad.repl.run/
I needed to allow requests to five 3rd party domains for this tiny Tetris to load (uMatrix)
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If you're referring to the game pieces, the creater probably just used these Unicode characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
As you can see from the program and screenshot right in front of you, xe did not. It's one of only two printw()s in the code, and the screenshot shows the result quite clearly.
But the large comment at the top of the tinytetris.c file is made of the block drawing characters :)
The attron sets terminal attributes which presumably cause it to flip the " " into a solid block. I haven't decoded what exactly the number it's feeding in represents, but 262176 is 0b1000000000000100000, and the attributes are defined around line 1100 of curses.h on my system (/A_NORMAL will find it).
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That doesn't sound right. Physical, non-video-game instantiations of tetrominoes exist, and Tetris Holdings, LLC presumably doesn't hold trademark over those. It'd be like trying to trademark a d20. Sure, one with symbols/numbers on it, as viewed from a certain angle, stylized a certain way, might be trademarkable as a mark (i.e. a logo.) But isocahedrons generally? They're mathematical objects. Which means that, pre…
Trademarks are funny in that they are confined to certain markets. If you do not compete in a trademark owner's business, you can use the mark. You see this in the wild: the word Namco, for instance, is trademarked to a Japanese video game company and an American swimming pool company. The word Shazam can refer to a superhero owned by Warner Bros., an app owned by Apple, or a financial services company called Shazam…
Tetrominoes are not a Tetris Company trademark. They have, however, trademarked the word "tetrimino."
Cool! I made a demo playable in the browser: https://repl.it/@amasad/tinytetris Or run it directly here: https://tinytetris.amasad.repl.run/
> Or run it directly here: https://tinytetris.amasad.repl.run/ I needed to allow requests to five 3rd party domains for this tiny Tetris to load (uMatrix)
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Xio did, in fact, attempt to point out that the shapes of the tetrominos are functional elements and not subject to trade dress. The judge disagreed. The judge also said that while copyright does not protect the abstract concept of a falling block game, he specifically cited the shapes of the blocks and the playfield size as copyrightable. It's settled U.S. case law. If you develop a clone of Tetris, you are infringi…
In the ruling, the judge states, "The style, design, shape, and movement of the pieces are expression; they are not part of the ideas, rules, or functions of the game nor are they essential or inseparable from the ideas, rules, or functions of the game." Clearly the judge disagreed that these elements weren't protectable, but do you agree? I'm say that I don't agree with the judge. Changing the the kind of polyominoe…
As things stand, though, the law of the land as established in federal courts says those elements are copyrightable, and under copyright. So it doesn't matter a fig what you or I think of the judge's ruling -- the law is clear.
I didn't think i'd ever read a Tetris implementation more incomprehensible than sedtris [1], but here we are. [1] https://github.com/uuner/sedtris
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In the ruling, the judge states, "The style, design, shape, and movement of the pieces are expression; they are not part of the ideas, rules, or functions of the game nor are they essential or inseparable from the ideas, rules, or functions of the game." Clearly the judge disagreed that these elements weren't protectable, but do you agree? I'm say that I don't agree with the judge. Changing the the kind of polyominoe…
Well if you're sitting on a pile of startup exit cash and can hire a Boies-tier attorney, go ahead and write that Tetris clone. You'll get your day in court to test those theories of yours, soon enough, and you can appeal it all the way to the Supremes if you wish. As things stand, though, the law of the land as established in federal courts says those elements are copyrightable, and under copyright. So it doesn't ma…
There used to be a playable Tetris in the favicon, which I found from HN[1], but it looks like the website[2] is dead now :( [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3873623 [2] http://favris.info/
There was also a suite of Windows games I played back in ~2003 that occupied maybe a 32x64 window each, and one of them was mini Tetris. As I recall, the developer was Israeli. Anyway it was awesome for playing casually in stealth mode; there were no window decorations and the games were well made. I think one of the other games was pool. I haven't been able to find them since.