Is it just me or does 60MB - compressed - seem a little on the large side for something of this complexity?
Developer here. This game was made in Java+Libgdx so it's coming with a bundled JRE which makes up most of the filesize.
Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
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Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
#22Looks cool. No web version? In this day and age?
It would be worthwhile to phrase this more constructively. They built something cool and they want to share it. The author is gaining nothing by posting this, and owes us nothing.
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#23This is nutty, I love it. One word of caution, I wouldn't mention the word Tetris anywhere, just use "falling block classic game" or whatever else, as it's one of the most trigger happy IP I know of after Nintendo. That said it's so far detached from the original you might be fine.
Have you tried writing a Rubik's cube game? They hire professional law firms to go after you.
No, I didn't know that it was also a touchy one, thanks.
Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
#24This is nutty, I love it. One word of caution, I wouldn't mention the word Tetris anywhere, just use "falling block classic game" or whatever else, as it's one of the most trigger happy IP I know of after Nintendo. That said it's so far detached from the original you might be fine.
Or as the Chinese seem to like to call it, "Russia block".
Yeah block stacking, physics based line assembling, all sorts of names. Everyone is very careful not to say the word Tetris.
Same with the Zelda word...
Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
#25This is nutty, I love it. One word of caution, I wouldn't mention the word Tetris anywhere, just use "falling block classic game" or whatever else, as it's one of the most trigger happy IP I know of after Nintendo. That said it's so far detached from the original you might be fine.
Have you tried writing a Rubik's cube game? They hire professional law firms to go after you.
Also "Magic 8 Ball" is an invocation that will summon Hasbro's lawyers from the nether realms.
Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
#26One of the main elements of Tetris is planning ahead. With this mechanic it becomes harder.
Maybe with 3 colors things might have remained relatively sane, but this looks hella difficult indeed
Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
#27Cool game, pretty hard too, I love it!
If you are trying to get it running on Linux (e.g. in WSL), you need libfontconfig, libxrender and libxtst installed. This worked for me on Ubuntu:
sudo apt install libfontconfig1 libxrender1 libxtst6
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=0
./Setris-1.2
Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
#28Super cool!
One thing that looks a bit off is that part of the physics engine runs in reverse -
When a piece touch the high part of a pile, the sand is going UP from the bottom of the valley to the top, instead of from the top DOWN to the bottom
When the process finishes the end result is the same, it's just a bit strange :)
Example in https://youtu.be/Hp4nV4EjLgM?t=133
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#29Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s also Not Tetris https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/
Also related, Hatetris which always gives you the worst piece: https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html
And, of course, Futilitris: https://tetris.wiki/Futilitris