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First-person Tetris
- jere 14y agoDarn, 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]
- chromejs10 14y agoHah that's exactly what I was expecting too
- tsm 14y agoIs something like this what you were looking for? http://www.3dtris.de/ http://www.3dtris.de/
- jere 14y agoNeat. I would have taken the plain game but with a different perspective, but that's pretty mind boggling right there.
- hyh1048576 14y agoREALLY AWESOME. Got only 253 in my first try...
- leeoniya 14y agolike Blockout from the 90s? https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1920&bih=953&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=blockout&oq=blockout&gs_l=img.3...0.0.0.3672.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..6.img.rR7hL6R1Vao https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1920...
- jere 14y agoYea, what tsm posted is a flash clone of that game.
- shmerl 14y agohttp://www.abandonia.com/en/games/559/Blockout.html http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/559/Blockout.html
- orjan 14y agoI immediately thought of Welltris: https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1920&bih=953&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=blockout&oq=blockout&gs_l=img.3...0.0.0.3672.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..6.img.rR7hL6R1Vao#um=1&hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=welltris&oq=welltris&gs_l=img.3..0j0i24l6.24534.26173.0.26595.8.8.0.0.0.0.179.734.6j2.8.0...0.0...1c.1.6.img.MdSBBwzo3Kk&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.43828540,d.bGE&fp=ec8fca4e9cb74de&biw=1920&bih=1085 https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1920...
- rapind 14y agoI loved this game.
- danmaz74 14y agoA dog bites a man, no news. A man bites a dog, news.
- littledot5566 14y agoIt wouldn't be too hard to implement your 1st person tetris because once you rotate to the left, right and upward, simply paint the user a blank screen because the block can no longer see anything. :D
- kd0amg 14y agoOnce the block gets low enough, there might be things visible even while facing sideways or up: X X XO X XO OOX XO OOX XO oo OX XO oo OX XO OX XO OX XXXXXXXXXX
- InclinedPlane 14y agoTry turning on "existential crisis".
- Mahn 14y agoYou could always write a rant about how good stuff doesn't make it to the front page; usually that has a better chance of showing up in the front page than the good stuff itself.
- jere 14y agoGood idea. Then when I get that rant on the front page, I can write a guide on HOW I GOT TO THE FRONT PAGE. Those seem pretty popular.
- IgorPartola 14y agoPretty 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+homepage http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homep...
- IgorPartola 14y agoHere 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?"
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- friendstock 14y agoawesome!
- tsm 14y agoAnother fun (for some value of fun) variant is Hell Tetris[0] based on xkcd[1]. 0 - http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris http://www.kongregate.com/games/banthar/hell-tetris 1 - http://xkcd.com/724/ http://xkcd.com/724/
- nthitz 14y agoPerhaps more interesting is Hatetris http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html http://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html which is programmed to always give you the worst possible piece. Just try to clear a line!
- RobotCaleb 14y agoSeveral years ago I ported and tweaked Bastet to Flash. http://blahg.res0l.net/2009/01/bastet-bastard-tetris/ http://blahg.res0l.net/2009/01/bastet-bastard-tetris/
- laumars 14y agoNice job, though if I'm completely honest, I found that version quite easy compared to the Hatris.
- RobotCaleb 14y agoYeah. 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. :)
- laumars 14y agoI beg to differ. I thought the difficulty was just right. But then I was a child of the 80s so grew up on Tetris.
- dkersten 14y agoI like Bastet much better than hatetris. Hatetris gave me mostly the same pieces, but bastet was much more varied and actually felt like I was getting somewhere and playing a normal game, except it was deceiving me and forcing me to build up too high, eventually forcing me to lose. In the end, I got 2 lines in bastet and 3 lines in hatetris :)
- frozenport 14y agoReminds us that Flash isn't dead.
- ruswick 14y agoThe fact that the orientation of the view changes based on the orientation of the block necessarily precludes this from truly being "first-person Tetris." (Unless the implied viewer can rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the screen, which seems absurd.) Anyway, I digress. It's still a neat concept...
- jared314 14y agoThe first time I saw this was in 2010. Ah, those were the days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052389
- boon 14y agoI thought it was fun to just hear the original music again...
- smnrchrds 14y agoTake a look at not Tetris 2[1]. From its description: Not Tetris 2 is the spiritual successor of the classic Tetris mixed with physics. The result is a fun spinoff in which blocks are no longer bound to the usual grid. Blocks can be rotated and placed at any angle, resulting in a complete mess if not careful. And with the newest cutting edge technology, Not tetris 2 allows line clears when the lines are sufficiently filled. [1] http://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/ http://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/
- skylan_q 14y agoI've played this one too much. Very fun.
- brunorsini 14y agoold... but cool :)
- short_circut 14y agoThis is so much more challenging than regular tetris!
- stevewilhelm 14y agoI was so looking forward to a Doom/Tetris mashup. Disappointed.
- lutze 14y agoInteresting idea! I wouldn't recommend trying to play this after being on the vino all night though. Excuse me while I find a bucket.
- tekniiq 14y agoi hate this game already
- mahmud 14y agoWarning, motion-sickness trigger.
- davidw 14y agoUgh, yes. I didn't think I could feel queasy from looking at a computer screen (outside of, say, staring at bad PHP code), but this thing set off my stomach.
- mynameishere 14y agoGhastly. Who upmodded this? Anyone want to admit it?
- donebizkit 14y agoIIII ... t's .... something !!! :)
- chamanbuga 14y agowoa not an easy game. Sweet idea!
- shmerl 14y ago8 bit music :)
- avodonosov 14y agoTYPE 1 of music is pleasant
- yaakov 14y agoDid playing that make anyone else nauseous?
- tehwalrus 14y agoyes. I discovered this a few years ago, and used to play it as a break from work - it is fantastic at making you stop after a while because you're so dizzy! :)
- ari_elle 14y agoVery cool indeed, especially because the concept is not something astonishingly complex. Check out NightMode and Exsistential Crisis I consider the latter one to be the crown of this concept. It looks even better and you have to memorize the structures laid, which makes it more interesting (especially since once you've grasped the original idea, the normal mode is not that hard at all)
- Guillaume86 14y ago+1 Existential crisis is really cool because it adds a memory game to the mix
- ari_elle 14y agoVery cool indeed, especially because the concept is not something astonishingly complex. Check out NightMode and Exsistential Crisis I consider the latter one to be the crown of this concept. It looks even better and you have to memorize the structures laid, which makes it more interesting (especially since once you've grasped the original idea, the normal mode is not that hard at all) EDIT: first person mario https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBb9wFP7uZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBb9wFP7uZM
- 10098 14y agoIt gave me the dizzies.
- thomaskng88 14y agoThis is gives me a serious headache! Try playing this whilst drunk....
- freejack 14y agothe controls are goofy. Why does the down button suddenly become the up button when the block rotates. Shouldn't it stay the same? It does add an extra level of challenge though! :)
- thetable 14y agoI have a feeling this is going to make the tetris effect much more extreme.
- zozu 14y agoThis is so entertaining. Thanks for sharing. I will spread the word on this one!
- Mahn 14y agoAlso old, but since we are on the mood: http://www.tetris1d.org/ http://www.tetris1d.org/
- loudmax 14y agoThis is brilliant! But I find the key mapping much harder to adjust to than the perspective. I'm far more used to 'k' to rotate and space to drop.
- jimktrains2 14y agoActually one of the highest scoring games of Tetris I've played.
- jbarrec 14y agoAwesome, but that just gave me a headache! lol
- emehrkay 14y agoI was, sadly, hoping for Resident Evil 1/Tomb Raider 1 style controls where up is ALWAYS forward. It increases difficulty ten-fold.
- EGreg 14y agoI 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!
- joeblau 14y agoThis is not what I thought, but it was just as awesome. Great job!
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