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First Person Tetris
- middus 17y agoBeware of sickness! Don't spin your head.
- indiejade 17y agoDefinitely not for the potentially epileptic.
- trafficlight 17y agoI played for about a minute. Now I feel car sick. Or maybe Tetrisick?
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoI've always been crap at tetris - I only got 880.
- tdoggette 17y agoFirstpersontetris.com What you need, when you need it
- kilian 17y agohttp://www.firstpersontetris.com http://www.firstpersontetris.com - the no-www gives me a domain squatter page :( way too addicting, btw.
- khafra 17y agoBoth with and without get me a domain squatter page. We're down to the coralcache: http://firstpersontetris.com.nyud.net/swf/FirstPersonTetris.swf http://firstpersontetris.com.nyud.net/swf/FirstPersonTetris....
- sireat 17y agoI am getting the squatter page in both cases.. :( Curious, why you would have had one version work and one would not work. What could have happened? DNS poisoning, site owned by squatter, or most likely scenario, site is hosted on a low-cost provider, which switches to squatter version when the site gets too much traffic.
- brecht 17y agoI was expecting a view from the block's perspective, looking down. This was a little disappointing, but still quite interesting.
- 10ren 17y agohttp://urbancanvas.net/firstpersontetris/ http://urbancanvas.net/firstpersontetris/ courtesy reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/aoxr9/its_firstperson_tetris/c0ipcws http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/aoxr9/its_firstperso...
- theblackbox 17y agoI apologise unreservedly. I do not use reddit, and found this on some IRC chan to distract me for a few minutes... I figured it would die like all my submissions have with less than 20 upvotes and a few comments about similar implementations or pros/cons of such a drastic change to user interface.
- 10ren 17y agoIt was just that the submission was leading to a placeholder landingpage instead of a game; so I looked it up on reddit to see if anyone had a mirror. But, now, the submission is leading to the game. Odd.
- fh 17y agoI can play first-person shooters all day long, but this makes me motion sick, and I had to stop after a few minutes. It's a shame, because I really like the concept.
- revorad 17y agoThis is way too addictive. There goes productivity.
- oladon 17y agoThis is doing funny things to my head. I'm up to 3700. :D
- oladon 17y agoAnd I lose at 4420.
- napierzaza 17y agoUgh, no straight pieces?
- eru 17y agoI got one right as my third piece.
- gort 17y agoIf you're relying on straight pieces you're doing it wrong! Back when I was starting with Tetris I would always try to avoid "holes", i.e. empty spaces that are covered on top. And this leads to the requirement for the straight pieces. I became much better when I started to accept holes and instead just try to keep the top edge a nice shape compatible with many blocks. The straight pieces become a bit of a nuisance, actually.
- logicalmind 17y agoI think you take a major strategic step when you force yourself to use the straight pieces horizontally. You learn how to play without relying on them to clear large areas.
- boredguy8 17y agoHow do you get a tetris without straight pieces?
- hugothefrog 17y agoHas anyone seen a tetris implementation from the other first-person perspective? As in, you're the block, looking downwards? Probably far too hard to play, but that is what I was expecting when I hit the link..
- dangoldin 17y agoLike this http://www.3dtris.de/ http://www.3dtris.de/?
- pavel_lishin 17y agoThank you! I had an old DOS version of this, and haven't been able to find anything that replicated the experience. This is great.
- dangoldin 17y agoYea I remember playing it back in the day. It was called "Blockout" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockout
- dcminter 17y agoIt was indeed. A friend of mine liked it enough to replicate as a Java applet - http://brokout.org/ http://brokout.org/ My site, but his app. Oh and for amusement value note the specs that it was tested against...
- nitrogen 17y agoI guess it's necessary in order to see the blocks at the bottom, but the ultra-wide field of view makes it hard to tell visually when the blocks have reached the top two levels.
- O3d 17y agoThe game you're thinking of for DOS was called 'Block-out'. I used to play it on my Dad's computer all the time when I was little. =)
- theblackbox 17y ago@jacquesm: I think I just inadvertantly gave you a case study! /me hangs head in shame
- jacquesm 17y agoYes, but now I'm really confused ;)
- megamark16 17y agoNow I'm dizzy. Pretty cool idea though.
- JshWright 17y agoI have no idea why, but I find this so much more intuitive than "normal" tetris.
- vas_popovski 17y agothat was fun 9400 points / 55 lines . . . and now back to making stuff work properly in IE :(
- joubert 17y agoBloody hilarious. I was almost in stitches when I did my first rotation.
- mjsergey 17y agoThis reminds me of Tuper Tario Tros, in which you play a version of the NES Mario but have to switch to playing Tetris so you can have blocks to jump on when there are walls/gaps that are too large. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276
- z8000 17y agoMaybe this should be "second-person tetris" since you rotate with the block. I would expect a first-person tetris to offer either a view from the POV of the blocks downward, or from the base upwards at the blocks headed my way.
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- mjgoins 17y agoIt's third person, but with a visual frame of reference fixed to the piece, at the time the piece appears on the screen. I don't see how that's even close to first person. It's also really fun.
- kwamenum86 17y agoThe "person" in this case is the person playing tetris. But since the screen rotates with the piece it desroys the FPS effect, unless people rotate their heads like that when they are playing tetris :)
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- nicpottier 17y agoThis started some nausea pretty quick for me.. which makes it brilliant.
- endlessvoid94 17y agoThis is incredible. Somehow I find it easier to concentrate and figure out than normal tetris. I can think faster with this one.
- howcool 17y agoi want this on my iPhone
- veemjeem 17y agothe iphone version requires you to rotate the phone instead :-)
- kellishaver 17y agoI want to play this so bad, but I get a headache and mild nausea after about the 4th piece.
- RobKohr 17y agoAm I the only one that noticed the tv "scanning" that happens. That combined with the surrounding imagery of the VCR really are nice touches. This guy is awesome. What is doubly awesome is that there is no credit on the page as to who made it. He just made something cool, and put it up. Done.
- ericd 17y agoHoly nauseating reference frames batman... This really seems to mess with the part of my brain that's been optimized for playing Tetris, even after ~50 lines... It's like going from being fluent in a language to a complete noob again.
- Batsu 17y agoSome other fun takes on Tetris: Tetoris (AKA Tetris HD) http://gprime.net/game.php/tetoris http://gprime.net/game.php/tetoris Tetris 1D (complete with high scores!) http://www.tetris1d.org/ http://www.tetris1d.org/
- jdietrich 17y agoOh god, I feel sick.