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Cool 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 (I use WSL as a more powerful sandbox to run things. Windows Sandbox is, unfortunately, not capable enough to run graphics-heavy stuff a…
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Bricks of Dune is a silly name I just thought up. On second thought, it reminds me of sand art in glass jars, just more dynamic.
Does a sand worm come out and clear a large section of the screen if you get a large enough combo?
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
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.
It was like tetris but with random pieces of trash you dropped a dumpster. Heavy trash could compact lighter trash, you could find a piece of trash that would explode or burn other trash, etc..
Definitely not as elegant and perfect as Tetris but very amusing.
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.
2023: Why can't I run it in the browser? Why can't I run it in a sandboxed environment? Because it is Java...