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Hextris

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Re: Hextris

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Post by cbhl »

When you click on the tweet button after you've finished a game, it might be worthwhile for the tweet text to contain the score a player just received.

Re: Hextris

#45

Post by ams6110 »

stinos wrote: post #27
abritishguy wrote: post #9

It gets too fast - if it had a limit to how fast it got then it could go on forever but with it as it currently is there are limits to how high your score can get before it is too fast for you to be able to react and once you reach that score you aren't very motivated to keep playing. I'm struggling to beat 5863

this. After a while it goes so fast I have no clue what I'm doing anymore and it's not that much fun anymore :P Maybe make the overal acceleration a bit slower? Btw the speed seems to depend on the machine you play it on. On my wife's close to 10 year old laptop it's way slower than on mine. But the rotation is still fast enough, so scores are higher. She's at 20000 now and the speed is roughly similar to what I get…

Yeah I tried it on my PowerBook G4 and it was like molasses

Re: Hextris

#46

Post by kome »

Cyranix wrote: post #44

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Welltris[0]. I was pretty hooked on it at one point in my childhood. Fun implementation! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welltris

"the Soviet challenge continues" cool game!

Re: Hextris

#47

Post by zwegner »

abritishguy wrote: post #9

It gets too fast - if it had a limit to how fast it got then it could go on forever but with it as it currently is there are limits to how high your score can get before it is too fast for you to be able to react and once you reach that score you aren't very motivated to keep playing. I'm struggling to beat 5863

Weird. I got to 80k in Firefox, and stopped because it was pretty slow and not getting faster--not really challenging at all.

I tried again in Chrome and its a lot faster, and does get faster throughout the game as well. More fun and challenging, but yeah--it does get too fast too quickly.

Re: Hextris

#48

Post by lotharbot »

Cyranix wrote: post #44

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Welltris[0]. I was pretty hooked on it at one point in my childhood. Fun implementation! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welltris

My favorite variant was Frac.

3d version: http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/frac.htm

4d version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzyws5ZkSYg

Re: Hextris

#49

Post by zwegner »

Cool game! A few notes:

I think your choice of license may be incompatible with the GitHub terms of service--there's an implied right to fork by using GitHub, but your license states no derivatives are allowed. IANAL, but something to look into: https://help.github.com/articles/open-source-licensing

As I mentioned in another comment, it's pretty slow under Firefox.

Lastly, the game is quite pretty, but I feel that since the gameplay involved is so precise, the imprecise visuals can be confusing. It's hard to tell exactly when a piece is going to set in place, when a group is eliminated, what would happen if you rotate and a piece is blocked by a stack already in place, etc. I went by pure geometry at first, but I definitely got bitten a few times where a piece moved after I thought it was in place, or a piece didn't get eliminated with the rest of a group since it hadn't fully landed in its column. The collision animations don't quite help there either.

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