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Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#71

If you hammer away at the boxes such that it fills up the entire screen the weight of all those boxes is enough to crush the ones at the bottom. Coolness to the max!

Yeah, holding "Down" was an incredibly effective strategy at 5fps. At least until the tab crashed.

According to console, it gives up at 1 << 16 vertices for drawing, so something like 4000 squares or 1000 tetrominos.

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#75
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Love it. Tetris is such a well worn cultural institution that its ripe for parody. Reminded me of this Japanese comedy routine involving Tetris[0] Totally doesn't need any Japanese language skills to enjoy [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXpi3JbQiWU

I turned on CC hoping for translation, and it was captioning in Japanese. Lol.

There is an auto-translate option as well

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#78

Thank you for this, bookmarked this one. Going to be an awesome resource for slapping in the face to all those evangelists that chant "browser games are the future" because once you keep pressing down arrow and the screen is filled with rectangles it crawls to a stop at several thousand of them, while a similar implementation in native C++ using Unreal Engine 5 will not break a sweat even at dozens of millions on scr…

This is actually written in C++ and I compile it to a native executable during development, and yet it crawls to a stop exactly the same, so I'm afraid that that one's on me. :D (It's an inefficiency related to the breakage particles and waits patiently on a big pile of other code TODOs at the moment.)

Nevertheless, I don't disagree with you on your general sentiment towards browser games, I like fast native executables as well.

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

#80

Is there a way to play this on mobile? Tapping makes the pieces drop, but I can't work out a way to control the pieces.

Came here to ask this. Not sure why this isn’t mentioned more — or is it and I’m just overlooking it?

Right now the only controls I can figure out on mobile is touch = drop. No way to move anything that I can tell.

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