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https://theblocks.netlify.app/

by parisianka • 6 years ago

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theblocks.netlify.app

dreamer7• 6 years ago

Pretty cool game! I had to stop playing after a while as people around me were starting to wonder where the "Oh yeaahh!" was coming from.

crehn• 6 years ago

The "oh yeah" has a sexual intonation to it; it's perfect.

Jemaclus• 6 years ago

Agreed. It was less of a celebratory "oh yeah" and more of a moaning "oh yeah", which felt a little uncomfortable while playing a non-sensual game. There was a button in the bottom right that had an ear on it, and I thought it might mute the sound, but it just turned on music. I wound up having to mute the tab in Chrome (right-click tab, click "Mute Site") in order to play with more comfort.

jboggan• 6 years ago

The ability to rotate pieces would really increase the difficulty factor.

Finnucane• 6 years ago

Sure, but you'd give up sooner. The idea is to make it just hard enough to keep you engaged, but not too hard to make it seem like work. Semi-mindless amusement.

65103• 6 years ago

rotate in 4 dimensions

ralala• 6 years ago

And mirroring! Reminds me of those wooden games with just four pieces.

tmaly• 6 years ago

Honest question, is this a hidden sales funnel for the defonic app? This little popup in the bottom left pushed out the words more awesomeness and I clicked it. A new windows opened up to the defonic app website

dubcanada• 6 years ago

I think the obvious answer is yes.

thecodrr• 6 years ago

Cool concept. The 'oh yeah' was a nice (or not nice :D) touch.

saagarjha• 6 years ago

It’s sadly a little too big for my iPhone SE :(

SuperPaintMan• 6 years ago

Same for my BlackBerry Key2, still playable but the top area is obscured

koala_man• 6 years ago

You had a productive day

I appreciate that you thought that

rojcyk2• 6 years ago

It would get unproductive but since you cannot turn the sound off, it stayed productive.

rottencupcakes• 6 years ago

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-mute-entire-websites-in-c...

croisillon• 6 years ago

i like that Chrome users, like formerly IE users, need special instructions to do what Firefox users can do very simply

ars• 6 years ago

I too ceased playing because of the sound. Barely funny the first time or two, it was just irritating after that.

(Yes, I know I could mute the site, but by then the appeal of the game was over.)

dariusj18• 6 years ago

I was able to mute it, there are controls hidden at the bottom.

65103• 6 years ago

Who would have thought the ear icon mutes the sound.

BRedSox• 6 years ago

Caution to anyone wearing headphones.

parliament32• 6 years ago

Right-click the tab > Mute Tab? I don't remember the last time I actually hunted for a mute button on a site, how do you deal with sites with auto-playing videos and whatnot?

rojcyk2• 6 years ago

I don't deal with them. If I mute it on my end, it gives the impression I'm ok with this kind of ads or content. But I'm not so I go elsewhere.

thamer• 6 years ago

Most browsers show a little speaker icon on a tab playing sound, that you can click to mute the tab.

phobosanomaly• 6 years ago

Reminds me of playing with tangrams as a kid. Surprisingly, still pretty damn fun.

drcongo• 6 years ago

I'd never heard of tangrams until one day, many many years ago, I stumbled across a tangram book at a second hand shop, bought it, and built a Flash tangram game thing in Flash 4 (with all the pain that coding Flash 4 entailed). When Flash 5 came out I rewrote it with the ability to save your creations. It was quite popular for a while.

kthartic• 6 years ago

Great game, but I'm really confused as to who made it. I clicked nearly everything on the screen and couldn't see an author anywhere

swyx• 6 years ago

there are credits on the bottom left https://theblocks.netlify.app/credits.html

das_keyboard• 6 years ago

But this does not list any credits for the actual game...

Looking at the websites sources the actual game-code (powerblocks.js) was apparently written in 2016 by Danijel Durakovic (who is not mentioned in the credits...)

But I could not find anything about the games code/author elsewhere.

Der_Einzige• 6 years ago

"Ohhh yeahhhhhh"

Help me, this game makes me feel weird inside.

orliesaurus• 6 years ago

I love it - can you add rotation so you can scramble the pieces when you start to make it more challenging?

gpderetta• 6 years ago

reminds me of the minigame in "The Talos Principle", but there a significant source of complexity comes from the ability to rotate the pieces.

rjyoungling• 6 years ago

Love the headline

tosser0001• 6 years ago

I opened this in Firefox and Chrome on a desktop and nothing happened other than some blocks floating by. No keyboard or mouse activity had any effect.

It was only when I tried it on my phone did I see it was a game

maximp• 6 years ago

This was really fun, and I loved the soundtrack. The suggestive "oh yea" message got old quickly though.

egypturnash• 6 years ago

Really I feel like half the challenge is that the whole thing is constrained to a tiny phone screen sized area and you can barely see what your pieces even are until you've thrown them onto the grid.

radlad2• 6 years ago

The game is quite pretty, and fun for a minute, but it didn't seem to actually get more challenging as I played, and it got old quickly. And yes, the "oh yeah" is super weird.

time0ut• 6 years ago

Ya, I lost interest a few levels in when the difficulty didn't really ramp up. Maybe it does later?

65103• 6 years ago

takes a good bit but yeahh.

radlad2• 6 years ago

I dunno... I finally got a difficult one, then another easy-medium one, and then I got a really easy one thrown at me again so I closed the window.

elonmusk61• 6 years ago

Addictive!

hwayne2• 6 years ago

About three months ago someone posted a netflify app called "Treksit", which was flagged for plagiarization: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050651

Both "Treksit" and "Blocks" use the same ambient music and have the same attribution in the credits:

Huge thanks to Mary Lou (Manoela Ilic) from Codrops for the constant inspiration.

These are almost certainly by the same person, under two different accounts. That doesn't automatically mean this was also plagiarized, but it's extremely suspicious.

ismail• 6 years ago

It looks almost exactly like: http://pulzed.com/demo/powerblocks/

hwayne2• 6 years ago

Same UI, first two puzzles are exact same, and it's the person who was plagiarized in the first place (Tronix → Treksit). Yup, this another plagiarism.

whoisjuan• 6 years ago

That "ohh yeah" made me so uncomfortable.

samorozco• 6 years ago

That game is amazing.

kkdaemas• 6 years ago

Not a very original concept. They use these puzzles for child intelligence tests. Are the puzzles automatically generated?

What would be hilarious (imo) would be if the 100th puzzle is actually unsolvable.

cjfd• 6 years ago

thanks for posting! it is a lot of fun.

mrlala• 6 years ago

The "oh yeah" is creepy as hell, disable it!

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