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Tetr.io
- laputan_machine 5y agoThe concept is really cool, unfortunately as soon as I started playing it (Firefox) the pieces started moving of their own accord, and the play field started shaking, not sure if it's a game feature or a bug.
- BossingAround 5y agoWorked well for me (Firefox, macOS), though the game kicked my computers' fans into high gear.
- tkzed49 5y agoif you joined quick play, you were probably spectating while waiting for a match
- BossingAround 5y agoAmazingly cool! Love it. Note that if there are others like me who have never set foot into game dev and are curious, there is the CS50G Introduction to Game Development at [1]. [1] https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-game-development https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-game-develo...
- ujuj 5y agoThe tracks are amazingly cool.
- simonlc 5y agoThe community has written a great wiki page about the game for those looking for more details without looking around inside the game: https://tetris.wiki/TETR.IO https://tetris.wiki/TETR.IO
- oceanghost 5y agoWhoever picked the music did a great job. I played 3 games and the random selections were all whimsical.
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- sm4rk0 5y agoCan't it be played on mobile phone? Swipe up for up, swipe left for left, etc.
- tylercubell 5y agoReminds 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 https://youtu.be/-JziMvyIyKI?t=24 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMGPop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMGPop
- simonlc 5y agoIIrc they had to drop that game cause of The Tetris Company, and replaced it with a puyo puyo clone?
- splittingTimes 5y agoOMG, 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 hole of Tetris addiction.
- simonlc 5y agoI was playing Quinn a bit a few years ago. Someone brought it up and I found it. It definitely did not run as great as I remembered. Now I don't even think it would run at all...
- cdubzzz 5y agoHooray! 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.simonhaertel.de/quinn/home https://web.archive.org/web/20121217095902/http://www.simonh... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090326045241/http://www.simonhaertel.de/quinn/hs/player/2 https://web.archive.org/web/20090326045241/http://www.simonh...
- missedthecue 5y agoNo way to turn the music off? Couldn't find a "settings" or gear icon anywhere.
- nope96 5y agomouse wheel does volume, there's also a settings page
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- inDigiNeous 5y agoReally nice implementation of Tetris. Tried multiplayer, got screwed in 20 seconds. The music should probably be something along the lines of norwegian death metal to set the tone for that massacre.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoJust reading about this site, it seems like it's the home of really hardcore Tetris players.
- inDigiNeous 5y agoYeah, I was spectating couple of the players, hard to believe how fast they can move.. maybe somekind of ranked play would be in place not to scare away new players.
- vluk 5y agoThe main appeal of tetr.io for me is it's ranked mode. You need an account, and to play a few games for your elo to stabilize, but multiplayer->tetra league is a great way to 1v1 people around your skill level
- inDigiNeous 5y agoAh, did not realize that .. of course would need an account. Will have to try it out maybe, been loving the Tetris Effect multiplayer games, maybe will try this out too.
- strikelaserclaw 5y agothe music was awesome, reminded me of pokemon, just peaceful music
- jbverschoor 5y agoSuper polished game.
- PhantomBKB 5y agoLove this! Great implementation
- exikyut 5y agoI have nothing to contribute except "this is exceptionally well done" so I'll just add the TGM invisible Tetris video I watch occasionally to boggle at: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lE_UHhqAd1c https://youtube.com/watch?v=lE_UHhqAd1c (Yup, still feels so much longer than ~6 minutes. Crazy...)
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- novaleaf 5y agofat shaming?
- gk1256 5y agoTether.io :)
- ike0790 5y agodope game.....im curious what the architecture of the web app is.
- zuudo 5y agoThe game client is built with PixiJS, and otherwise mostly uses vanilla JS. The backend is built with Node.js, and the game uses a custom WebSocket protocol called Ribbon. In fact, there's a whole list of open source dependencies at https://tetr.io/about/acknowledgements/ https://tetr.io/about/acknowledgements/.
- Kiro 5y agoFor people on mobile like me, can someone explain what this is? The name and URL alone makes me intrigued.
- eXpl0it3r 5y ago> TETR.IO is a modern yet familiar online stacker. Play against friends and foes all over the world, or claim a spot on the leaderboards - the stacker future is yours! From: https://tetr.io/about/ https://tetr.io/about/
- simonlc 5y agoIt's just a multiplayer Tetris clone. Not a "mass" multiplayer like some other .io games, just one with match making.
- Kiro 5y agoI was hoping for one big play area where everyone controlled their own pieces in real-time.
- Kiro 5y agoDropping a billion-dollar idea right here and just one upvote?
- monocasa 5y agoParticularly a Tetris 99 clone, Nintendo's switch online tetris.
- simonlc 5y agoNot really, it does more than Tetris 99, and the main match making mode is 1v1 not 1v98. It's not the only Tetris game with big lobbies. An earlier popular one is https://jstris.jezevec10.com/ https://jstris.jezevec10.com/
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- 999900000999 5y agoLove the music , thank you !
- nickstinemates 5y agoI used to love playing Tetranet - this brings back those vibes.
- mmcclure 5y agoYes!! I spent _hours_ a few weeks ago trying to figure out if there was a Tetrinet equivalent these days, so if this is anywhere close I'm extremely excited.
- jedberg 5y agoTetris99 is pretty similar. You have to get the DLC to unlock playing with your friends though.
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- newman8r 5y agoI've yet to find a tetris game that I enjoy more than the NES version, although I'm open to the possibility.
- schemescape 5y agoYes, the newer rules (seeing multiple upcoming pieces, swapping pieces, pieces being shuffled instead of completely random, being able to move a piece once it's touched the ground) seem almost like cheating compared to the NES version.
- wingmanjd 5y agoTetris Party for Wii is well liked in our house. Adds some fun game modes and twists on the original gameplay. Tetris 2 for SNES is different (goal is to clear certain colored blocks for each level instead of just not dying). My wife and I found it to scale well for our differing video-game skills, as I tend to be better than she is.
- simonlc 5y agoHave you tried the TGM series? https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_The_Grand_Master https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_The_Grand_Master
- GuB-42 5y agoWhile 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 quickly to move the pieces faster instead of just holding a direction. Modern Tetris is much faster. At high level, you get to "20G" mode, where the pieces drop immediately and you have to rely on the lock delay and rotation system to move pieces around. Later versions introduced T-Spins as an alternative to Tetrises for high scores and attacks in multiplayer.
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- optymizer 5y agoThis 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. screenshake. - Shot a bullet? Boom. screenshake. - Picked up an item? Boom. screenshake. - Let out a big sigh? screenshake. - Physically shook your display? Double screenshake. - Rolled your eyes at all the screenshakes? There's a screenshake for that too In StarCraft, the screen didn't shake even if you dropped a nuke on someone else's base. I guess the good folks at Blizzard at the time didn't watch that one GDC talk, "Juice It or Lose It", so they had to come up with a different way to make a good game.
- ajs256 5y agoYou might want to turn down Config > Gameplay > Board Bounciness/Damage Shakiness.
- httpsterio 5y agoYou can remove almost all of the visual effects in Tetr.io ghost piece transparency, background images, grid visibility etc. You can even adjust key repeat speeds, manual drop speed and everything related to game play. It's extremely versatile in that regard and easily the top 1 tetris clone in my opinion.
- toastercat 5y ago> 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.
- diiaann 5y agoToo much shaking in spectating, I'm actually getting motion sick.
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- hwers 5y agoThis has to be some kind of wasm construction right? I've hardly ever seen such a smooth but rich experience on web.
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- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoNot everything this fancy is wasm. Obvious example: https://acko.net/ https://acko.net/
- miguelmurca 5y agothe website may look cool, but judging from the first article (at the time of reading), the content is atrocious.
- girvo 5y agoHis shader stuff and graphics programming articles are neat. But yeah his other stuff is... misguided, at best (and I think he's amazingly wrong in his latest article). I just don't read those ones.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoCould you elaborate on why you think Wittens is “misguided”? Do you think, for example, that he is not in a good position to write about the oppression of minorities?
- KingMob 5y agoHmmm, well, his very first post ("Who Doesn't Go Nazi?") is about being an anti-vaxxer, saying how anti-vaxxers would resist becoming Nazis, and comparing anti-vaxxers to the Jews, which already has me questioning his critical thinking skills. I looked at a couple of his other articles, and despite being a good writer, there's some subtle, and not-so-subtle, points he misses. E.g., in "Storms and Teacups", he thinks that Jezebel celebrating women's "equality and self-determination" means they are hypocritical to criticize Michelle Williams for dressing up as a Native American, and the fashion industry because they "didn't objectify a woman in a tasteful enough fashion". This shows he doesn't understand that 1) "equality and self-empowerment" are not to come at others' expense, an unstated, but real, caveat, he seems to have missed, and 2) criticism of an industry doesn't have to involve every possible complaint all the time. That's just editorial focus. Ironically, towards the end of the article, he says "We don't want to talk about the full complexity at play here", while parroting standard responses. I'm 99% sure he spends his time digging up things that confirm his viewpoint, locating the 1% of outliers that support him, and no time engaging with the scholarship of the majority of the other side. It's like trying to talk about racism using only Candace Owens' talking points.
- flanbiscuit 5y agoThis is cool! I'm guessing inspired by Tetris 99 available on Nintendo Switch. Thank you for having an anonymous mode! edit: After playing and watching a bit it's very obvious that if you want to win you'll have to use a bot. A quick google search turns up a a couple pre-made bots you can download and start running yourself. It's fun to see bot vs bot in the multi-player quick play.
- zuudo 5y agoThe players in quick play are absolutely not bots. Botting is the number one way to get yourself permanently banned.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoIt's basically the equivalent of random casual players hopping into an FPS and immediately being able to spectate top tier pros and deciding that everyone must be aimbotting. No, some people really are just that insanely good at video games.
- jjorge 5y agoThey aren't bots, the skill ceiling for Tetris is practically non-existent. The fastest player in the world can clear 40 lines in like 14 seconds I think.
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- sdfjkl 5y agoSeems to be doing the moves server-side, even on solo mode, so with my high latency, high jitter connection it's unplayable.
- Shadonototra 5y agothe keyboard input lag is painful have webdev lost their mind? other than this issue, i love the concept, the art style is kinda nice too, it's tetris, but there is a fresh and modern look, i like it fix the input lag issue, and you get all my support!
- Xynix 5y agothere's no existing input lag from my knowledge; if it's slow, as it is by default, you can change your handling (ARR, DAS, SDF) to however fast you want it
- foobaw 5y agothere is no ARE and there's also a "0ARR" handling setting - so this is actually considered 0 input delay.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoNot seeing any input lag here.
- Tallianar 5y agoQuite OT: how do people get adsense (or other advertisers) on apps/games like these? I have a few apps that I would love to try an monetize but whenever I apply for adsense I get rejected for "lack of content".
- Matheus28 5y agoDon't use adsense for web games. Take this advice from someone who had to deal with them. You're just one sniff away from Google's algorithm locking down your account and impacting your earnings.
- osk______ 5y agoShort answer: you don't, Google doesn't like them. If you have a huge amount of players, you may be able to get in contact. TETR.IO uses AdinPlay, which does use the same Google network, but without being immediately thrown out of the network
- zuudo 5y agoNot sure how applicable it would be to your use case, but TETR.IO uses a service called AdinPlay for monetisation.
- bullen 5y agoI made a similar 1v1 drop multiplayer game: http://fuse.rupy.se/cube.html http://fuse.rupy.se/cube.html It's more like a simple version of Puyo Puyo or Puzzle Fighter.
- chirau 5y agoI'm guessing you can't play this on mobile? What are the controls? Couldn't figure out anything
- jjorge 5y agoIf u want mobile Tetris, check out jstris
- exogeny 5y agoReminds me of TetriNET. That game was awesome.
- bartread 5y agoDoesn't work on Chrome/MacOS. Go for Quick Game and then Got It (which is slightly off the bottom of the page) and then... nothing.
- nevster 5y agoAre there people using bots to play this? I played in one of the 100 player matches and the top players were just ridiculous.
- pimlottc 5y agoHaven’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.
- PetitPrince 5y agoYou'd be surprised how deep the skill hole can go. Looks at this 20-ish seconds for 40L mode with hand cam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OFq31lek2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OFq31lek2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDz4-pr9J4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDz4-pr9J4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azm-hbVTRJk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azm-hbVTRJk
- pimlottc 5y agoHuh. Seems like I may be in the wrong here. I've been watching some of the NES Tetris videos recently and they don't even go this fast so I thought it wasn't possible. I guess that's that's the different between a "sprint" and a "marathon" though? I can barely even register the next piece at that speed, I wonder if these players are mostly just visualizing the board in their mind. Doesn't seem possible to be looking at both the upcoming piece and the playfield at this kind of speed.
- antris 5y ago> Seems like I may be in the wrong here. I've been watching some of the NES Tetris videos recently and they don't even go this fast so I thought it wasn't possible. I guess that's that's the different between a "sprint" and a "marathon" though? That's because the NES Tetris has considerably different mechanics. NES Tetris simply wasn't built for fast play. The DAS, piece locking, RNG rules etc. are very unforgiving, so the players are doing most of the work fighting against them instead of finding piece placements as fast as possible.
- Hadriel 5y agoAnyone know how to get the playlist for this?
- lillecarl 5y agoI was having input lag issues when playing, things wouldn't fall at all where i wanted them to. Browser: Brave Browser 96.1.33.106 OS/Kernel: Linux hostname 5.10.88 #1-NixOS SMP Wed Dec 22 08:31:00 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux CPU/iGPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Neither of these are particularly weird specs for using the web.
- FreeFull 5y agoI haven't noticed any input lag with my setup: Firefox 95.0.2, Arch Linux with the 5.15.11 kernel, CPU+graphics: 4th gen (Haswell) Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU Perhaps your browser isn't using hardware acceleration properly, or something like that?
- henvic 5y agoomg, this is awesome! I used to play Tetrinet years ago, and I loved it!
- nope96 5y agoIs 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.
- bdsa 5y agoSubspace/Continuum is available on Steam
- osk______ 5y agoIf your browser supports your controller, you can set it up under Config > Controls. You'll need to bind the buttons yourself by setting it to Custom, though. Sorry!
- unnouinceput 5y agoOr you can use one of the myriad free utilities that will simulate/bind your controller to keyboard. Or write your own, using hooks is easy enough.
- FalconSensei 5y agoFor some reason it just doesn't here. Main area is just a black screen and I'm supposed to be spectating?
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- tibbon 5y agoThat is a very nice Tetris in my layperson's opinion. Nice work!
- TulliusCicero 5y agoHow do they avoid the lawyer cats? I'd heard that the Tetris company was very...zealous with protecting their IP, including anything that looked too similar to Tetris.
- shp0ngle 5y agoYeah, Tetris is very litiguous And there is a precedent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Interactive,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Int.... - Tetris sued a developer of iOS game, and they apparently have precedent about "look and feel". Add the name that is intentionally similar to "Tetris" and I don't think they have snowball chance in hell to win if they decide to go after them. The gameplay itself and the rules are not copyrighteable, but "look and feel" is. From wikipedia: "Wolfson discussed which aspects of Tetris were copyrightable as expressive elements, and which aspects are part of the general idea that cannot be protected by copyright. According to Wolfson, copyright cannot protect the idea of vertically falling blocks, or a player rotating those blocks to form lines and earn points, or a player losing the game if those blocks accumulate at the top of the screen. However, Wolfson determined that several aspects of Tetris qualify as unique expression that is protected by copyright. This includes the twenty-by-ten square game board, the display of randomized junk blocks at the start of the game, the display of a block's "shadow" where it will land, and the display of the next piece to fall. Wolfson also granted protection to the blocks changing in color when they land, and the game board filling up when the game is over."
- osk______ 5y agoThe Tetris Company doesn't have any rights to the game, as Tetris isn't patented. They tend to claim they have "trade dress" rights, but the elements they claim as such in the Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive[1] case aren't actually protectable. They're all either technical elements of the game (like the movement of the pieces, or the shape of the board), or visual elements of the game that do not have any recognizability (as in, if you removed them, people will still recognize it as Tetris, like the colors of the pieces). In the end, the only thing that makes people recognize Tetris as such, is the shape of the pieces, potentially the fact they fall down. Those are all technical elements, so they can't fall under trade dress. Trade dress is meant to protect things like the design of Coca-Cola bottles (curvy bottle, red label, white text), where said design language is very meaningful (you recognize the Coca-Cola section from far away just by the design), non-technical (any other bottle would work equally well, the product stays the exact same), and confusing if copied (if you picked one up but it turned out to be Pepsi, you would be well confused). Trade dress is not meant to act as a stand-in for a patent. Sadly, DMCA is very anti-developer in this regard. A small developer who relies on a publisher (like Steam, or the App Store) to publish and monetize their game, can have their game taken down in minutes with a (fraudulent!) DMCA claim, with no real way to appeal. If you do try to appeal, like in said Xio case, you won't actually have any money to deal with the following court case (which TTC will happily stretch as far as possible to bleed you dry), since while you are under DMCA claim, you have no audience, and no way to monetize. Due to that, you will have to pretty much withdraw from the case, which is what happened in this case. Had there been enough pushback from Xio Interactive in this case (which, would cost them a LOT of money), they could have won. It's a very skewed system. To prevent this, TETR.IO is self-published (not on Steam, etc.) and has many pillars it stands on. This makes it nigh-impossible to take down with a simple DMCA request. To take down TETR.IO, you would need to start a court case. And then, the developer can keep their game up in the meantime, as then, the game is innocent until proven guilty, instead. The Tetris Company has not sent any legal message to TETR.IO, and I personally doubt they ever will. It's important to remember that if TTC loses such a case, they would go out of business. The only business TTC has is selling their (snakeoil) Tetris License. Such a license would become nearly worthless if it was proven the trade dress isn't real. So, they would probably rather just keep an eye on me. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd rather sell a license to me, as that would be far, far less risky for them, unlike sending an email to Steam. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Interactive,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Int....
- makach 5y agoThis implementation is amazing. Is it humans on top 40? The instant replay is genius! I almost can't believe my eyes.
- y4k4r1 5y agoI can confirm it is. It's certainly amazing. There's a very lively and developed competitive scene. If you're interested to learn more there's a couple sites that teach advanced techniques ( https://four.lol https://four.lol and https://harddrop.com https://harddrop.com ). I've also been playing this game for about 4 years and I'm nowhere near that level, but the progression you're able to make by learning new techniques is still very rewarding.
- kokon 5y agoMy son is in the top 20, I believe. He spends a lot of time on it, but I still look at him like a baby :)
- mastermedo 5y agoTold my gf to try it. Said she doesn't really like it. "It's just another tetris game". And then she proceeded to play it for the next 4 hours. Multiplayer is truly brutal. Very hard to play.