Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by Unit520 » Thu, May 05, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

Hello HN!

You can read this [1] blog post if you want to know more about some ideas that I have for this thing. This is just an experiment right now, there isn't any real game (yet). Any feedback would be appreciated, do you think this could become something that would be fun to play?

[1] https://unit520.net/posts/dead-trees-an-absurdist-block-layi...

Show HN: Tetris, but silly
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Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 05, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by _Microft » Thu, May 05, 2022, 4:54 PM UTC

I like it!

For other players: you can pull and push pieces around if they do not align into proper lines by themselves. Clearing lines works!

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by hubblesticks » Thu, May 05, 2022, 5:55 PM UTC

Love this! I tried this on my phone and instinctively tried to turn my phone to make the pieces slide around (after seeing the falling/sliding physics), expecting them to react to the gyro in the phone. Then realized, right, this is a web app!

Great work, fun!

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by stavros » Thu, May 05, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

hubblesticks wrote: post #4

Love this! I tried this on my phone and instinctively tried to turn my phone to make the pieces slide around (after seeing the falling/sliding physics), expecting them to react to the gyro in the phone. Then realized, right, this is a web app! Great work, fun!

I'm confused by your comment, web apps can access the accelerometer fine.

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by shaunxcode » Thu, May 05, 2022, 6:41 PM UTC

_Microft wrote: post #3

I like it! For other players: you can pull and push pieces around if they do not align into proper lines by themselves. Clearing lines works!

nice. I figured out just holding down space eventually starts clearing a lot of lines until it crashes.

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by hubblesticks » Thu, May 05, 2022, 7:13 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #5

hubblesticks wrote: post #4

Love this! I tried this on my phone and instinctively tried to turn my phone to make the pieces slide around (after seeing the falling/sliding physics), expecting them to react to the gyro in the phone. Then realized, right, this is a web app! Great work, fun!

I'm confused by your comment, web apps can access the accelerometer fine.

Sorry not a web dev or programmer, didn't realize that! Well then, that would be cool to enable.

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by stavros » Thu, May 05, 2022, 7:15 PM UTC

hubblesticks wrote: post #7

stavros wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm confused by your comment, web apps can access the accelerometer fine.

Sorry not a web dev or programmer, didn't realize that! Well then, that would be cool to enable.

Yeah, agreed, it's a cool API.

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by goodusername » Thu, May 05, 2022, 8:12 PM UTC

It was pretty amusing to try and guess how to smash the pieces into order, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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Post by Unit520 » Thu, May 05, 2022, 10:30 PM UTC

hubblesticks wrote: post #4

Love this! I tried this on my phone and instinctively tried to turn my phone to make the pieces slide around (after seeing the falling/sliding physics), expecting them to react to the gyro in the phone. Then realized, right, this is a web app! Great work, fun!

Thanks for the feedback, using the phone's accelerometer is actually a great idea! As others mentioned, there are web APIs for that these days, I'll try to include something like that in the next version.