I was, sadly, hoping for Resident Evil 1/Tomb Raider 1 style controls where up is ALWAYS forward. It increases difficulty ten-fold.
First-person Tetris
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Re: First-person Tetris
#72I was hoping for a first-person 3d tetris
but the way it's made here, I think what it's missing is that gravity should be replaced by maneuvering to whatever side of the square is "up"
like aiming a spaceship
that would be challenging to play!
Re: First-person Tetris
#73This is not what I thought, but it was just as awesome. Great job!
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#74Darn, I was hoping for a perspective from the block itself looking down on the already placed blocks. Second-person tetris then? [on a side note, I really need to learn how to game the front page. 2 year old, minute twist on 30 year old game -> front page. write a new game from scratch -> dustbin]
Pretty simple, really. (The following is fairly cynical, and a hyperbole. Most of it isn't actually good advice, but I've seen all of these methods work).
Try to post when the post the the bottom of /newest is close to an hour old.
Avoid posting during times of big events (e.g.: not when Google kills off Google Reader).
Have a linkbait title. Don't worry, it gets edited by friendly neighborhood moderators later, so you don't look like a jackass.
Need to re-post an article that didn't gain traction before? Add #SOMETHING to the end of the URL. The matching algorithm will think it's a new link.
Create a voting ring. Make sure to do some actual posting/upvoting, as there is voting ring detection. The simplest prevention is that upvotes from the same IP don't seem to count.
Have a short article, instead of a long one. By my estimate 90% of people upvote based on title alone, 9% upvote based on the first paragraph of the article, and 1% actually reads it.
Post something as "Show HN: please review my X". These seem to gain a lot of favor. Brag about how it was a weekend project, took you 2 hours, etc.
Have high karma and lots of fans.
Post "What I learned from building my tetris clone" article
Talk about how Paleo diet changed your life
Promise to teach us how to stop eating/sleeping/wasting time/driving/having stuff.
Write an article about how your work environment is different and how it makes you productive.
Do something that is otherwise trivial using only CSS. Apply the same approach to Haskell to get a PhD in Computer Science (I literally saw a thesis a while ago about memoization techniques in Haskell.)
Post a short angry rant or make a wild claim. This is especially helpful if you are a mildly popular blogger. Accuse Google/Apple of doing something that will ruin their business. Make a wild prediction about how the Entire Google empire is based on a dozen bloggers using Google Reader.
Read: http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homep...
Re: First-person Tetris
#75This is by David Kraftsow aka dontsave (http://dontsave.com). His projects are consistently awesome. Check out http://yooouuutuuube.com
Re: First-person Tetris
#76Darn, I was hoping for a perspective from the block itself looking down on the already placed blocks. Second-person tetris then? [on a side note, I really need to learn how to game the front page. 2 year old, minute twist on 30 year old game -> front page. write a new game from scratch -> dustbin]
Pretty simple, really. (The following is fairly cynical, and a hyperbole. Most of it isn't actually good advice, but I've seen all of these methods work). Try to post when the post the the bottom of /newest is close to an hour old. Avoid posting during times of big events (e.g.: not when Google kills off Google Reader). Have a linkbait title. Don't worry, it gets edited by friendly neighborhood moderators later, so y…
Here are a few more:
Write a post about how to get on HN's front page.
Write a post about how you got on HN's front page and how your traffic increased as a result.
Write a post about how you failed to get on the front page, despite your best efforts.
For comments, try saying "OK, now you can downvote me".
For comments with negative votes, say "what's with the downvotes?"
Re: First-person Tetris
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty simple, really. (The following is fairly cynical, and a hyperbole. Most of it isn't actually good advice, but I've seen all of these methods work). Try to post when the post the the bottom of /newest is close to an hour old. Avoid posting during times of big events (e.g.: not when Google kills off Google Reader). Have a linkbait title. Don't worry, it gets edited by friendly neighborhood moderators later, so y…
Here are a few more: Write a post about how to get on HN's front page. Write a post about how you got on HN's front page and how your traffic increased as a result. Write a post about how you failed to get on the front page, despite your best efforts. For comments, try saying "OK, now you can downvote me". For comments with negative votes, say "what's with the downvotes?"
Thanks for the tips, assuming you're being serious. I tried it again half an hour ago. Chose the time carefully and added a little profanity based on a few posts analyzing HN. No votes at all within the time it was on new and 1 comment complaining about the profanity. Yay.
I'll try again in the morning sometime. Something about spamming the site bothers me. Guess I need to get over it.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here are a few more: Write a post about how to get on HN's front page. Write a post about how you got on HN's front page and how your traffic increased as a result. Write a post about how you failed to get on the front page, despite your best efforts. For comments, try saying "OK, now you can downvote me". For comments with negative votes, say "what's with the downvotes?"
Thanks for the tips, assuming you're being serious. I tried it again half an hour ago. Chose the time carefully and added a little profanity based on a few posts analyzing HN. No votes at all within the time it was on new and 1 comment complaining about the profanity. Yay. I'll try again in the morning sometime. Something about spamming the site bothers me. Guess I need to get over it.
It's mostly not serious. Most of the "advice" I gave will decrease the quality of this site, and if it becomes widespread, it will be detected and the community will respond. You can use these tricks to try to game the system, and "spam" HN for your own gain, but I think you can also try to be above this stuff and actually post quality stuff instead. What are you trying to post, and why do you think it's not going through?
P.S.: Another evil technique that may or may not work: flood the /newest page with crap articles, and then put yours at the top. I remember reading an urban legend about a couple of guys that flooded a dating site (OKCupid?) with profiles of gorgeous women, then messaged real women, while other men were messaging the fake profiles. Dilute the market and you might tip the scales in your favor.
Edit: Do you mean? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5385857 The game is kind of odd. The way you move is somewhat confusing, though I did figure it out after a second. Having a hard time figuring out what I'm supposed to/can do.
Re: First-person Tetris
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Several years ago I ported and tweaked Bastet to Flash. http://blahg.res0l.net/2009/01/bastet-bastard-tetris/
Nice job, though if I'm completely honest, I found that version quite easy compared to the Hatris.
Yeah. As I said, I tweaked it. The breakdown for statistics on pieces given is (I believe) in the text. It doesn't give you the worst piece always as that's not fun. Even so, it's still not fun. :)
Re: First-person Tetris
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the tips, assuming you're being serious. I tried it again half an hour ago. Chose the time carefully and added a little profanity based on a few posts analyzing HN. No votes at all within the time it was on new and 1 comment complaining about the profanity. Yay. I'll try again in the morning sometime. Something about spamming the site bothers me. Guess I need to get over it.
It's mostly not serious. Most of the "advice" I gave will decrease the quality of this site, and if it becomes widespread, it will be detected and the community will respond. You can use these tricks to try to game the system, and "spam" HN for your own gain, but I think you can also try to be above this stuff and actually post quality stuff instead. What are you trying to post, and why do you think it's not going th…
>Edit: Do you mean? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5385857 The game is kind of odd. The way you move is somewhat confusing, though I did figure it out after a second. Having a hard time figuring out what I'm supposed to/can do.
Yea, it is a bit odd. The movement is intended to disorient you. You can pick up any items you want and try to use them. You're supposed to make enough movement in the specified direction so you can escape.