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Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical Tetris" (benjoffe.com)
139 points by nirmal on April 26, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 20 comments


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


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.


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.


Hmm, just curious, was this in OSX?


But of course!


haha, thought so. I love using my MacBook to watch flash videos on wintery nights when I am too lazy to search for a blanket.


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


I knew I had seen this on HN before:

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


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


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.


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.


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


I never put that together until just now.


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


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?


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


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


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!


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


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.




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