Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the best piece

Post by dagurp » Sat, May 08, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #49

electroly wrote: post #7

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Very nice! My initial reaction is: it's not giving me the piece I want. It's trying to force you to clear individual lines as soon as it is possible to do so. But in real Tetris, you want to clear four lines at a time to get double score, which may mean withholding a line clear when you could have done one. Consider this replay: హටເח௨ඞܗТۑටܢݹ௫੬ຽߢ௧ලບঅযلЈǶ It ends by giving me nothing but S pieces, because it wants me t…

Could someone please explain what the string after "consider this replay" is? I see a combination of characters loosely looking like some East Asian alphabet, I guess that this is some kind of encoding ?

Post by franciscop » Sat, May 08, 2021, 10:07 AM UTC

Grustaf wrote: post #48

franciscop wrote: post #46

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Well they also changed the name, so this new concept of Lovetris is by the new author, even if the code to make it possible is not. Lots of references to the old work as well, similar distribution (e.g. not paid), etc. If I was the author of Hatetris I'd be happy for this version!

> they also changed the name Is that a serious argument? If you write a techno song, and I take it, turn up the BPM and publish it as “by me”, would it help my case that I also changed the name of the song?

Post by frodetb » Sat, May 08, 2021, 10:26 AM UTC

Post by thinkingemote » Sat, May 08, 2021, 10:29 AM UTC

Grustaf wrote: post #41

indigochill wrote: post #8

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This version didn't exist until GistNoesis flipped the sign, so no, it's not. This gets to a larger philosophy of open source: we should encourage people to fork when they want to iterate on someone else's work, however minor that iteration may be. This is open source working as intended.

If you take something that took hours to build and (as is claimed) spend 1 minute modifying it, you absolutely have no right to claim it’s “by” you. I think everyone except you agrees on that.

Post by thinkingemote » Sat, May 08, 2021, 10:33 AM UTC

Grustaf wrote: post #56

franciscop wrote: post #53

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I'd like to welcome you to the world of Nightcore: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nightcore But in more seriousness, a song is normally quite distinguishable from another song than a tetris implementation from another tetris implementation. Conceptually, having a normal tetris vs having a tetris give you the worst solution (hatris) is the same jump as having a normal tetris vs having a tetris give you t…

I completely disagree. I made a hatetris myself (called Lövetris) once, spent a good 20 hours on it. If someone took it, flipped a sign (or even re-skinned it) and published it as “by” them I’d be furious. Yes, the product would be different, but 99.9% (literally) of the work would still be mine. The hard part is building the app, not changing a parameter. I wouldn’t even call that a “remix”.