I don't understand how you play. I successfully made some four letter words by nothing happened
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Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback
#52This idea was developed into a mildly popular game in the early 90’s called Wordtris.
Here’s an example of the gameplay (Not my video): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EYO5WbBfp-E
The copyrights can be traced to Atari holdings, who also have a license for Tetris (who is turn pretty aggressively enforces the brand), so watch out for that.
Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback
#53This idea was developed into a mildly popular game in the early 90’s called Wordtris. Here’s an example of the gameplay (Not my video): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EYO5WbBfp-E The copyrights can be traced to Atari holdings, who also have a license for Tetris (who is turn pretty aggressively enforces the brand), so watch out for that.
Cool! When you think you have had an original thought turns out there is prior art.
Wordtris seems to be better featured; better distribution, list of completed words, eraser block, peek at next block and graphics :)
Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback
#54It didn't recognise 'Arid' or 'Swap' as words, which I was amazed I lucked into. It seems a very hard prospect to get anywhere, otherwise. Is this something to do with my choice of browser? I don't use Chrome, nor ever will aside from testing.
You mention elsewhere in the thread here that you didn't test on Firefox. May I ask what you DID test in?
Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback
#55It's completely broken on desktop in Firefox - they're rectangles and the letters fall outside the boxes one settled, so I can't tell an L from an I without memory. Also, the buttons move at the bottom when you tap on letters so it makes it hard to press them. Consider mapping the arrow keys on a keyboard.
its fixed now.
Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback
#56I don't understand how you play. I successfully made some four letter words by nothing happened
same. got no points for "epic" and "pause"
Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback
#57It didn't recognise 'Arid' or 'Swap' as words, which I was amazed I lucked into. It seems a very hard prospect to get anywhere, otherwise. Is this something to do with my choice of browser? I don't use Chrome, nor ever will aside from testing. You mention elsewhere in the thread here that you didn't test on Firefox. May I ask what you DID test in?
hey, i fixed it on firefox. it should work fine. not sure why it didn't recognise those words, I will check in dictionary.
Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback
#58It didn't recognise 'Arid' or 'Swap' as words, which I was amazed I lucked into. It seems a very hard prospect to get anywhere, otherwise. Is this something to do with my choice of browser? I don't use Chrome, nor ever will aside from testing. You mention elsewhere in the thread here that you didn't test on Firefox. May I ask what you DID test in?
hey, i fixed it on firefox. it should work fine. not sure why it didn't recognise those words, I will check in dictionary.
Also its not automatic, you have click on each letters of word, then if its valid word then it will disappear.
Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback
#59This was fun and kind of addictive. Only right now it seems to be giving letters between "R" and "U" in the alphabet more than 50% of the time. That's very challenging.