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Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

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Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#71

Why doesn't this run in the browser? :( It's 2023 - and no offence intended - but I would rather not download a binary blob from a random Internet page to execute it outside the browser's sandbox. Especially since it looks this game could easily be programmed with WASM and/or vanilla JavaScript.

Because the developer didn't want to. Instead they coded it in Java and ran with it. Personally, I love it.

It's probably 10x more efficient than a possible JS implementation, tho.

Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#72

Why doesn't this run in the browser? :( It's 2023 - and no offence intended - but I would rather not download a binary blob from a random Internet page to execute it outside the browser's sandbox. Especially since it looks this game could easily be programmed with WASM and/or vanilla JavaScript.

Also... 61MB download!

Smaller than most popular webpages.

Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#73

Why doesn't this run in the browser? :( It's 2023 - and no offence intended - but I would rather not download a binary blob from a random Internet page to execute it outside the browser's sandbox. Especially since it looks this game could easily be programmed with WASM and/or vanilla JavaScript.

Your OS has its own sandbox, so it should be absolutely fine unless you run everything as administrator.

Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#75

Why doesn't this run in the browser? :( It's 2023 - and no offence intended - but I would rather not download a binary blob from a random Internet page to execute it outside the browser's sandbox. Especially since it looks this game could easily be programmed with WASM and/or vanilla JavaScript.

Because the developer didn't want to. Instead they coded it in Java and ran with it. Personally, I love it. It's probably 10x more efficient than a possible JS implementation, tho.

Java 10x faster than JavaScript, in 2023? No.

Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#76

Why doesn't this run in the browser? :( It's 2023 - and no offence intended - but I would rather not download a binary blob from a random Internet page to execute it outside the browser's sandbox. Especially since it looks this game could easily be programmed with WASM and/or vanilla JavaScript.

Someone made something fun in the tools they know and shared it with the public

Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#77

Why doesn't this run in the browser? :( It's 2023 - and no offence intended - but I would rather not download a binary blob from a random Internet page to execute it outside the browser's sandbox. Especially since it looks this game could easily be programmed with WASM and/or vanilla JavaScript.

Also... 61MB download!

Well.. it's a game!

Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#78

Why doesn't this run in the browser? :( It's 2023 - and no offence intended - but I would rather not download a binary blob from a random Internet page to execute it outside the browser's sandbox. Especially since it looks this game could easily be programmed with WASM and/or vanilla JavaScript.

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Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#79

That's really cool :-) I like how it looks and how hard it seems. I see that you're into Java, so I was thinking maybe you could look into transpiring your game into JavaScript so it can be embedded on a website. Checkout GWT for that: https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt

There are much better options than GWT, google’s closure compiler, teawm, cheerpj. Though libgdx might be problematic.

Re: Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

#80

One 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

Played for some fifteen minutes. It feels like there is way too much luck involved. On one run I was able to keep the field almost empty apart from the lower corners as I kept getting colors in nice streaks, and on others I just seemed to get a rainbow of layers.

Due to the sand mechanics you can't just stash pieces to the side and without enough information on upcoming pieces it's just too risky to attempt bridging the edges.

If you like games in which RNG punishes you in ten out of nine runs and then gives you a free pass, this might be for you.

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