omg, this is awesome!
I used to play Tetrinet years ago, and I loved it!
Tetr.io
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#72Reminds me of the original version of blockles [1] on i'minlikewithyou (later OMGPOP) [2]. That was one of my favorite games back in the day. From reading the Wikipedia article, it looks like they were a YC company too. [1]: https://youtu.be/-JziMvyIyKI?t=24 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMGPop
IIrc they had to drop that game cause of The Tetris Company, and replaced it with a puyo puyo clone?
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#73Is there a way to play with a gamepad controller?
This is the coolest web game I've ever seen. So fast and smooth even on my ancient laptop.
I didn't know you could do this in a browser. Now I want to see a Subspace remake to complete my 90's nostalgia trip.
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#74This has to be some kind of wasm construction right? I've hardly ever seen such a smooth but rich experience on web.
Not everything this fancy is wasm. Obvious example: https://acko.net/
the website may look cool, but judging from the first article (at the time of reading), the content is atrocious.
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#75OMG, this brings back memories. I miss Quinn so much on OS X. With its lovely community I spend endless hours over the years with this addicitive game (play). As cool as Tetr.io is, out of the box it does not compare to the smoothness of the Quinn experience. But maybe there are more tweaks to the game options to come closer to Quinn. But I will never know as I cannot allow myself to be drawn back into that black hol…
Hooray! I built the Quinn website[0] and user/high score/game tracker back in the day when I was learning PHP. The archive of that site is pretty great! Even has my own player page[1].
I found and played Quinn and really wanted to play with others so I reached out to the developer to ask whether there was a community of players anywhere and that led us to a conversation about building the site and system. It was great fun.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20121217095902/http://www.simonh...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090326045241/http://www.simonh...
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#76Are there people using bots to play this? I played in one of the 100 player matches and the top players were just ridiculous.
Haven’t tried multiplayer yet but there are definitely bots on the solo play leaderboard. The fastest time for getting 40 lines in blitz mode is 15 seconds. It’s not humanly possible.
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#77This is highly subjective, but I spectated a few games and the amount of shaking that is happening seems excessive to me. Maybe the kids are impressed by all the shaking going on, but I find it hard to focus when the thing I'm focusing on keeps jumping around. On a related note, I think screenshakes are extremely overused in indie games. It's so cheap to add that it cheapens the games. - Threw a grenade? Boom. screen…
> Maybe the kids are impressed by all the shaking going on, but I find it hard to focus when the thing I'm focusing on keeps jumping around.
No need to be snobby. For the record, I'm in my 30s, and I disagree with the central thesis of your comment.
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#78No way to turn the music off? Couldn't find a "settings" or gear icon anywhere.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried the TGM series? https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_The_Grand_Master
While both are Tetris, TGM is very different, and closer to modern Tetris than the NES version. The NES version is much less forgiving when it comes to rotation, locking, random generator, etc... It also has a single preview, no hold piece and no hard drop. At high level, a major challenge is to move pieces fast enough to reach the sides, including a technique called "hypertapping" where you mash buttons extremely qu…
I would argue that TGM is closer in spirit to NES Tetris than to modern Tetris. In both NES and TGM, the speed of the game is extrinsic - it comes from the game itself, forcing you to play faster and faster.
In modern Tetris, the speed is intrinsic - it comes from the player skill. Even with forced 20G the rotation system and the wall/floorkicks mechanism makes it much more easier to both move and recover from screwups.
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#80Are there people using bots to play this? I played in one of the 100 player matches and the top players were just ridiculous.
no they just are really good
it’s insane how good you can get in so little time tbh