Tinytetris
Games
terminal tetris clone
SHOW HN2019
147points
52comments
#294of 2,195 in 2019
Top 14%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Execution: 2 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
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What people liked
Impressive minified code and a fun, small implementation
From 3 comments
Very nice; writing minified code is a challenge I've never been particularly good at. As it happens, though, I had a university assignment due today to write a WebGL…
kd5bjo on HNamazing op! tetris is one of those game on my need to implement list and never actually finished an implementation :)
blondin on HNWith ncurses it runs out of the box on my POWER6 AIX machine, so A for portability. I'd give you an A+ if I had xlc installed locally, but I cheated a little and used gcc. (For…
classichasclass on HN
Objections
Copyright and trademark risk from Tetris Holdings for clones
From 3 comments
Friendly reminder: Tetris is one of the most valuable, and vigorously defended, game IPs in the world. Such aspects of the game as the dimensions of the playfield and the shapes…
bitwize on HNLook up Tetris Holdings, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc. The court found 100% in favor of Tetris Holdings, in particular noting the shape of the tetrominoes, the way the tetrominoes…
bitwize on HNXio did, in fact, attempt to point out that the shapes of the tetrominos are functional elements and not subject to trade dress. The judge disagreed. The judge also said that…
bitwize on HN
Browser demo loads requests from five third-party domains
From 2 comments
> Or run it directly here: https://tinytetris.amasad.repl.run/ I needed to allow requests to five 3rd party domains for this tiny Tetris to load (uMatrix)
OrgNet on HNAbsolute madness.
amasad on HN
Starting piece position seems random and controls did not respond with arrows
From 2 comments
Is it just me? I can't make any operations, and tetrominoes did not drop from center (horizontally), but kind of from random position
yihsiu on HNTry wasd instead of arrows. And yes, the starting position of new pieces looks random.
Arkanosis on HN
Alternatives named
sedtris
From 1 comment
I didn't think i'd ever read a Tetris implementation more incomprehensible than sedtris [1], but here we are. [1] https://github.com/uuner/sedtris
twic on HN
emacs tetris
From 1 comment
On my Mac I can just type: 'emacs -f tetris'
sys_64738 on HN
mini-tetris JavaScript 509 byte
From 1 comment
Here’s a 509 byte JavaScript Tetris https://github.com/veu/mini-tetris
mhiming on HN