First-person Tetris
firstpersontetris.com
firstpersontetris.com
Second-person tetris then?
[on a side note, I really need to learn how to game the front page. 2 year old, minute twist on 30 year old game -> front page. write a new game from scratch -> dustbin]
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XXXXXXXXXXTry to post when the post the the bottom of /newest is close to an hour old.
Avoid posting during times of big events (e.g.: not when Google kills off Google Reader).
Have a linkbait title. Don't worry, it gets edited by friendly neighborhood moderators later, so you don't look like a jackass.
Need to re-post an article that didn't gain traction before? Add #SOMETHING to the end of the URL. The matching algorithm will think it's a new link.
Create a voting ring. Make sure to do some actual posting/upvoting, as there is voting ring detection. The simplest prevention is that upvotes from the same IP don't seem to count.
Have a short article, instead of a long one. By my estimate 90% of people upvote based on title alone, 9% upvote based on the first paragraph of the article, and 1% actually reads it.
Post something as "Show HN: please review my X". These seem to gain a lot of favor. Brag about how it was a weekend project, took you 2 hours, etc.
Have high karma and lots of fans.
Post "What I learned from building my tetris clone" article
Talk about how Paleo diet changed your life
Promise to teach us how to stop eating/sleeping/wasting time/driving/having stuff.
Write an article about how your work environment is different and how it makes you productive.
Do something that is otherwise trivial using only CSS. Apply the same approach to Haskell to get a PhD in Computer Science (I literally saw a thesis a while ago about memoization techniques in Haskell.)
Post a short angry rant or make a wild claim. This is especially helpful if you are a mildly popular blogger. Accuse Google/Apple of doing something that will ruin their business. Make a wild prediction about how the Entire Google empire is based on a dozen bloggers using Google Reader.
Read: http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homep...
Write a post about how to get on HN's front page.
Write a post about how you got on HN's front page and how your traffic increased as a result.
Write a post about how you failed to get on the front page, despite your best efforts.
For comments, try saying "OK, now you can downvote me".
For comments with negative votes, say "what's with the downvotes?"
I'll try again in the morning sometime. Something about spamming the site bothers me. Guess I need to get over it.
P.S.: Another evil technique that may or may not work: flood the /newest page with crap articles, and then put yours at the top. I remember reading an urban legend about a couple of guys that flooded a dating site (OKCupid?) with profiles of gorgeous women, then messaged real women, while other men were messaging the fake profiles. Dilute the market and you might tip the scales in your favor.
Edit: Do you mean? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5385857 The game is kind of odd. The way you move is somewhat confusing, though I did figure it out after a second. Having a hard time figuring out what I'm supposed to/can do.
Yea, it is a bit odd. The movement is intended to disorient you. You can pick up any items you want and try to use them. You're supposed to make enough movement in the specified direction so you can escape.
In the end, I got 2 lines in bastet and 3 lines in hatetris :)
Also, it's possible to finish a line using one piece (multiple lines actually).
I managed to pull off a 4-line score: 20C2 AAAA AAAA 8CAA AAAA AAAA AEAA AAAA A5EA AAAA AD5A A2AA 0000 AA32 0AAA AAAA B0A9 552A AAAA ADAA AAAA B62A AAAA AB2A AAAA A8C2 AAAA AAA3 2AAA AAAA D58A AAAD AAAA A8C0 2AAA A8C2 2AAA AA39 AAAA B0AA AAAA 3AAA A8C8 AAAA A36A A3AA A32A AA30 02AA 8C0A AA8C 2AA9 5DAA AAAA AA9D 55AA AAAA AA75 5AAA AAA9 55AA AAAA 15AA AAA9 D54A AAAB 9AAA 46AA A808 AAA0 AAA1 556A AAB5 55AA AAAA
C00A AAAA AAAB 0AAA AAAA ABAA AAAA AAB5 AAAA AAAA B000 AAAA AAAD 52AA AAAA AC02 AAAA AAAC 0AAA AAAA C2AA AAAA ACAA AAAA AEAA AAAA ADAA AAAA AD6A AAAA C00A AAAA C02A AAAA C0AA AAAC 2AAA AACA AAAA EAAA AAD4 AAAA AC00 AAAC 02AA AC0A AAC2 AAAC AAAD 2AAA D55A AAAA AAA9 5DAA AAAA AB5A AAAB 5AAA B00A AB0A ABAA 9D4A A975 AAAA AAB5 56AA AAAC 02AA C2AA EAAD 52AA D56A AAAD 55AA A956 AAB5 AAB1 AAB0 AA8C 1756 6A01 03AA 2A
But I did manage one line on my second attempt :)
Not Tetris 2 is the spiritual successor of the classic Tetris mixed with physics. The result is a fun spinoff in which blocks are no longer bound to the usual grid. Blocks can be rotated and placed at any angle, resulting in a complete mess if not careful. And with the newest cutting edge technology, Not tetris 2 allows line clears when the lines are sufficiently filled.
Excuse me while I find a bucket.
It's still a neat concept...
Check out NightMode and Exsistential Crisis
I consider the latter one to be the crown of this concept.
It looks even better and you have to memorize the structures laid, which makes it more interesting (especially since once you've grasped the original idea, the normal mode is not that hard at all)
but the way it's made here, I think what it's missing is that gravity should be replaced by maneuvering to whatever side of the square is "up"
like aiming a spaceship
that would be challenging to play!
Why does the down button suddenly become the up button when the block rotates. Shouldn't it stay the same?
It does add an extra level of challenge though! :)