NonZeroSumJames

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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   As the developer I also haven't even developed the intuition required to grok the visualisation, so - it probably takes a considerable amount of time, but surely after some weeks of play...
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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   That definitely sounds like some approaches that have been taken. Blockout and Welltris are workable. I was just trying to do something that gave access to all information in a consistent way, so that someone might develop an intuition for
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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   Thanks! I take your point that colours would help distinguish the different z-layers - it's pretty easy to confuse the two larger rings I found. I was also thinking that making it stereoscopic might help. I've done this before whe
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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   Thanks! I was actually going to make an algorithm to find all the possible variations, but I realised that the additional options were limited and immediately obvious, and hard coding them would give me more control of game balance. The blo
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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   Thanks - discovering these comments has been a real treat. It was fun working it all out. Turns out rotating these babies in code is easier than in your head, just swapping out relative x,y,z positions.
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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   Hey everyone, I'm James, the writer of the linked blog post with the 3D Tetris experiment and I just today discovered this thread! Which explains the bump in traffic I had for a couple of days back in August. One of the moderators has
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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   Thanks Kiro, I really appreciate it. What's your twitter handle? (If you care to share). BTW - There's a mobile version of the game too now https://nonzerosum.games/tetrings_mobile.html It was really cool seeing a
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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   Thanks for that, I appreciate your help :)
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   by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

   Hi Dang, sorry to contact you via a random thread. I am new to HN and have jumped on because I've discovered that a couple of months ago a project (a blog / game) that I created was posted here and got a lot of interest and feedba
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    by NonZeroSumJames 3y ago

    Hi Kiro, sorry for the random contact on a thread, but you posted a game of mine a couple of months ago (a 3D Minimalist Tetris game) and I only just now discovered your post - which explains the massive amount of traffic I got for a couple