Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical Tetris"

http://www.benjoffe.com/code/

by nirmal • 16 years ago

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dca• 16 years ago

Thats one of the more innovative Tetris oriented games I've seen in a few years. I was surprised how smooth it works in the browser, even though I've seen a few of the other cool things folks are doing with HTML5 these days. Good stuff.

justinph2• 16 years ago

Very cool. Was just playing this and my wife walked in and said "Cool, I want to play that!".

>>>As an aside, I love that this isn't flash, but it makes my CPU & fans go just as nuts as if it was.

samratjp2• 16 years ago

Hmm, just curious, was this in OSX?

justinph2• 16 years ago

But of course!

davidmurphy• 16 years ago

Not only is it impressive technically, but the circular Tetris game is extremely fun and well executed!

samdk• 16 years ago

All of these feel a lot more native than Flash ever has.

koanarc2• 16 years ago

Wow. There have been a lot of cool canvas demos to date, and these are certainly on that list. I am stoked for the future of the internet, guys. Stoked as the dickens.

Batsu• 16 years ago

Other than the few non-standard pieces (At one point, I had a C shaped block, and another an L made of 3 pieces), love it. Nicely done.

TrevorBurnham• 16 years ago

True; if pieces consist of 3-5 blocks, then it's not Tetris. It's Tri/Tetra/Penta-is.

trafficlight• 16 years ago

I never put that together until just now.

peregrine2• 16 years ago

Not to be a buzz kill or anything or take away from the technical neatness of it but... this has been around on Opera as a widget for a long time.

2006 was when he got the first comment on the widget. http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4196/1.2/6/#comments-begin

koanarc2• 16 years ago

Yeah, but...who uses Opera?

...I kid, I kid!

In all seriousness, though, a widget on a browser with a chronic ~2% usage share is one thing. The exact same thing available on any standards-compliant browser is quite another, wouldn't you say?

peregrine2• 16 years ago

I completely agree, just stating some facts about it. :)

senki• 16 years ago

Created by the same guy, Ben Joffe from Opera Software.

chaosmachine• 16 years ago

I knew I had seen this on HN before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514838

nirmal• 16 years ago

Oops. 400 days ago I was in a hole studying for my qualifying exams. :) I had blocked out HN in my hosts file.

bsergean• 16 years ago

1871 points. I'm not dead yet (and I got bored after a while, just managed to go back to the ground floor). Last time I was good at tetris was on the Game boy, which is ... old.

DCoder• 16 years ago

I tried Tetris ... 11k points later I realised that 25 minutes had gone by. Addictive, and very well done from both technical and gameplay perspective!

bsaunder• 16 years ago

To all those job hunting... instead of a resume, write something like this.

Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical Tetris"

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