Go Tetris! 0.3 alpha
New in this version: Totally revamped how gamespeed works. Starts out twice as slow, and you have to get to level 10 before it’s as fast as it was falling before. I could slow it down even more now...
View ArticleInteresting Tetris Links
A co-worker sent out this simple Tetris implimentation in Javascript. (Using JQuery.) From there (reading the source code) I ended up on wikipedia reading about the Tetris Effect and Tetrominos (which...
View ArticleHybrid Games
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” -T.S. Eliot If you subscribe to the idea that all ideas have already been thought up (I don’t,) then the natural last bastion of creativity is to start...
View ArticlePossible Go Tetris! game modes
I had a conversation tonight about other possible game modes for Go Tetris!, and so I thought I’d document these modes (and some others I’ve thought of previously) here. Practice Mode — This would be a...
View ArticleSo close I can taste it…
I was working on the two-eyess stone capture feature on the plane today, and I made some real progress. I’m very close to having this feature ready to play! One thing I’m worried about is whether...
View ArticleGo Tetris! 0.4 alpha
I’m still working on the new “capture by making two eyes” feature, but I’ve commented out that code and pushed out a new release because there have been many improvements, and I don’t want to bother...
View ArticlePlay Go Tetris! Now
Below is the previous version of Go Tetris! (0.9a), created by Martin Grider. Thanks for playing! There is a new version of Go Tetris! available! This version is still available for comparison, but the...
View Articlebit Generations
I am probably way behind the times here, but I found out last night that Nintendo’s handheld game consoles are not region encoded. I think I may have been aware of this fact at some point, but this was...
View ArticleGo Tetris 0.5 alpha
New version tonight! I haven’t had a lot of time to work on the game this week, but this new version does have some good stuff in it. One you’ll notice right away, and a couple of others you might not:...
View ArticleGo Tetris! 0.6 alpha
New version tonight just fixes a bug introduced in the last version when you pause the game while the pieces are “exed” out. General wonkiness would ensue. Sorry about that, it’s fixed now. Thanks go...
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