Tetr.io

If your browser supports your controller, you can set it up under Config > Controls. You'll need to bind the buttons yourself by setting it to Custom, though. Sorry!

Subspace/Continuum is available on Steam

I can confirm it is. It's certainly amazing. There's a very lively and developed competitive scene.

If you're interested to learn more there's a couple sites that teach advanced techniques ( https://four.lol and https://harddrop.com ).

I've also been playing this game for about 4 years and I'm nowhere near that level, but the progression you're able to make by learning new techniques is still very rewarding.

My son is in the top 20, I believe. He spends a lot of time on it, but I still look at him like a baby :)

Just reading about this site, it seems like it's the home of really hardcore Tetris players.

the music was awesome, reminded me of pokemon, just peaceful music

Yeah... I played a few rounds and after getting my butt kicked incredibly fast, (side note: I love Tetris and am the household champion in comp. games), I thought there was something fishy going on.

Yep, bots galore. A simple Google search turned up an open source bot on github[1], meaning there are probably better bots hidden within the community.

Ugh. So many online games today are ruined by cheaters.

[1] https://github.com/misterhat/tetrio-bot

Nope, some of the best players in the world hang out in Quick Play, and they're simply built different.

Haven’t tried multiplayer yet but there are definitely bots on the solo play leaderboard. The fastest time for getting 40 lines in blitz mode is 15 seconds. It’s not humanly possible.

no they just are really good

it’s insane how good you can get in so little time tbh

mix of muscle memory, strats and changing default settings (DAS/ARR etc) to allow you to play faster

There's no WASM, it's mostly vanilla JS, together with the PixiJS library, which does 2d WebGL rendering. It has in-house libraries for text rendering, particle systems and the such. It's not super strong, but as long as you understand the limitations of the browser and try to adapt to the client's machine, you can get a very decent experience in. I hope this game sparks a bit of a trend of trying to make more genuine gaming experiences in the browser.

Not everything this fancy is wasm.

Obvious example: https://acko.net/

I believe it uses a webgl 2d framework, like pixijs, though that might no longer be accurate.

Hooray! I built the Quinn website[0] and user/high score/game tracker back in the day when I was learning PHP. The archive of that site is pretty great! Even has my own player page[1].

I found and played Quinn and really wanted to play with others so I reached out to the developer to ask whether there was a community of players anywhere and that led us to a conversation about building the site and system. It was great fun.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20121217095902/http://www.simonh...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090326045241/http://www.simonh...

I was playing Quinn a bit a few years ago. Someone brought it up and I found it. It definitely did not run as great as I remembered. Now I don't even think it would run at all...

It's just a multiplayer Tetris clone. Not a "mass" multiplayer like some other .io games, just one with match making.

> TETR.IO is a modern yet familiar online stacker. Play against friends and foes all over the world, or claim a spot on the leaderboards - the stacker future is yours!

From: https://tetr.io/about/

html/js/webgl-based Tetris clone that has extensive options and play modes.

Don't use adsense for web games. Take this advice from someone who had to deal with them. You're just one sniff away from Google's algorithm locking down your account and impacting your earnings.

Short answer: you don't, Google doesn't like them. If you have a huge amount of players, you may be able to get in contact. TETR.IO uses AdinPlay, which does use the same Google network, but without being immediately thrown out of the network

Not sure how applicable it would be to your use case, but TETR.IO uses a service called AdinPlay for monetisation.

Yeah, Tetris is very litiguous

And there is a precedent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Int.... - Tetris sued a developer of iOS game, and they apparently have precedent about "look and feel".

Add the name that is intentionally similar to "Tetris" and I don't think they have snowball chance in hell to win if they decide to go after them.

The gameplay itself and the rules are not copyrighteable, but "look and feel" is.

From wikipedia:

"Wolfson discussed which aspects of Tetris were copyrightable as expressive elements, and which aspects are part of the general idea that cannot be protected by copyright. According to Wolfson, copyright cannot protect the idea of vertically falling blocks, or a player rotating those blocks to form lines and earn points, or a player losing the game if those blocks accumulate at the top of the screen. However, Wolfson determined that several aspects of Tetris qualify as unique expression that is protected by copyright. This includes the twenty-by-ten square game board, the display of randomized junk blocks at the start of the game, the display of a block's "shadow" where it will land, and the display of the next piece to fall. Wolfson also granted protection to the blocks changing in color when they land, and the game board filling up when the game is over."

Yeah I was wondering the same thing, looking at this it seems they have been pretty active at it, even removing a Tetris android wallpaper application.

Probably because Tetr.io is non-commercial ?

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Tetris/comments/ka43wx/tetra_online...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1vzwe8/got_a_dm...

* https://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8135

The Tetris Company doesn't have any rights to the game, as Tetris isn't patented. They tend to claim they have "trade dress" rights, but the elements they claim as such in the Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive[1] case aren't actually protectable. They're all either technical elements of the game (like the movement of the pieces, or the shape of the board), or visual elements of the game that do not have any recognizability (as in, if you removed them, people will still recognize it as Tetris, like the colors of the pieces). In the end, the only thing that makes people recognize Tetris as such, is the shape of the pieces, potentially the fact they fall down. Those are all technical elements, so they can't fall under trade dress. Trade dress is meant to protect things like the design of Coca-Cola bottles (curvy bottle, red label, white text), where said design language is very meaningful (you recognize the Coca-Cola section from far away just by the design), non-technical (any other bottle would work equally well, the product stays the exact same), and confusing if copied (if you picked one up but it turned out to be Pepsi, you would be well confused). Trade dress is not meant to act as a stand-in for a patent. Sadly, DMCA is very anti-developer in this regard. A small developer who relies on a publisher (like Steam, or the App Store) to publish and monetize their game, can have their game taken down in minutes with a (fraudulent!) DMCA claim, with no real way to appeal. If you do try to appeal, like in said Xio case, you won't actually have any money to deal with the following court case (which TTC will happily stretch as far as possible to bleed you dry), since while you are under DMCA claim, you have no audience, and no way to monetize. Due to that, you will have to pretty much withdraw from the case, which is what happened in this case. Had there been enough pushback from Xio Interactive in this case (which, would cost them a LOT of money), they could have won. It's a very skewed system.

To prevent this, TETR.IO is self-published (not on Steam, etc.) and has many pillars it stands on. This makes it nigh-impossible to take down with a simple DMCA request. To take down TETR.IO, you would need to start a court case. And then, the developer can keep their game up in the meantime, as then, the game is innocent until proven guilty, instead. The Tetris Company has not sent any legal message to TETR.IO, and I personally doubt they ever will. It's important to remember that if TTC loses such a case, they would go out of business. The only business TTC has is selling their (snakeoil) Tetris License. Such a license would become nearly worthless if it was proven the trade dress isn't real. So, they would probably rather just keep an eye on me. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd rather sell a license to me, as that would be far, far less risky for them, unlike sending an email to Steam.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Int....

IIrc they had to drop that game cause of The Tetris Company, and replaced it with a puyo puyo clone?

You're comparing the wrong genres. StarCraft (age of empires, etc) is an RTS where you have a god view. Screen shakes make little sense when you, the player are removed from any of the characters and the terrain in play. From a usability perspective, these games also have a ton of information the player needs to process in a teeny amount of time. Screenshake would seriously mess with the player's ability to stay focused on what needs to prioritized. Hell, pro SC2 players even turn off ragdolls and environmental particle effects so that there's even less "noise". Does that mean Blizzard artists were compensating for poor gameplay when they implemented those?

Meanwhile, "arcade" style games like platformers, bullet hells, puzzles (tetris etc), turn based card games, etc need to juice up the moments when important things happen (because these aren't games full of subtlety moment to moment), and don't have a crazy amount of complex information on the screen that gets sacrificed in a screenshake.

To note, Hearthstone and Diablo III both have plenty of screenshake, although I believe you can turn them off (and many indie games heavy on screen shake offer this option too).

Juice is indeed very important to make games "feel" good, but perhaps more devs need to ask "is the juice worth the squeeze?" to not turn off players like you.

The game has a very robust config that allows you to alter the amount of shaking. I also did not like it. I turned shake and bounce all the way down to 0%.

You can remove almost all of the visual effects in Tetr.io ghost piece transparency, background images, grid visibility etc.

You can even adjust key repeat speeds, manual drop speed and everything related to game play. It's extremely versatile in that regard and easily the top 1 tetris clone in my opinion.

You might want to turn down Config > Gameplay > Board Bounciness/Damage Shakiness.

> Maybe the kids are impressed by all the shaking going on, but I find it hard to focus when the thing I'm focusing on keeps jumping around.

No need to be snobby. For the record, I'm in my 30s, and I disagree with the central thesis of your comment.

Too much shaking in spectating, I'm actually getting motion sick.

I haven't noticed any input lag with my setup: Firefox 95.0.2, Arch Linux with the 5.15.11 kernel, CPU+graphics: 4th gen (Haswell) Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU

Perhaps your browser isn't using hardware acceleration properly, or something like that?

Yes!! I spent _hours_ a few weeks ago trying to figure out if there was a Tetrinet equivalent these days, so if this is anywhere close I'm extremely excited.

You have to wait until the current set of players are eliminated and a new match starts.

worked for me on Chrome / macOS Big Sur

They aren't bots, the skill ceiling for Tetris is practically non-existent. The fastest player in the world can clear 40 lines in like 14 seconds I think.

The players in quick play are absolutely not bots. Botting is the number one way to get yourself permanently banned.

Have you tried the TGM series?

https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_The_Grand_Master

Tetris Party for Wii is well liked in our house. Adds some fun game modes and twists on the original gameplay.

Tetris 2 for SNES is different (goal is to clear certain colored blocks for each level instead of just not dying). My wife and I found it to scale well for our differing video-game skills, as I tend to be better than she is.

Yes, the newer rules (seeing multiple upcoming pieces, swapping pieces, pieces being shuffled instead of completely random, being able to move a piece once it's touched the ground) seem almost like cheating compared to the NES version.

If u want mobile Tetris, check out jstris

if you joined quick play, you were probably spectating while waiting for a match

Worked well for me (Firefox, macOS), though the game kicked my computers' fans into high gear.

there's no existing input lag from my knowledge; if it's slow, as it is by default, you can change your handling (ARR, DAS, SDF) to however fast you want it

there is no ARE and there's also a "0ARR" handling setting - so this is actually considered 0 input delay.

Not seeing any input lag here.

mouse wheel does volume, there's also a settings page

The game client is built with PixiJS, and otherwise mostly uses vanilla JS. The backend is built with Node.js, and the game uses a custom WebSocket protocol called Ribbon.

In fact, there's a whole list of open source dependencies at https://tetr.io/about/acknowledgements/.