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- ChrisLowder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27i would have gone with -
up arrow: rotate
down arrow: down
left arow: go left
right arrow: go right
it just feels natural - thydzik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20very nice. though don't like the configured keys
- polvero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hey Cool. I got dugg!
I appreciate the comments actually on this one. It was just as I expected.
You have to indeed take into account that I made the darn thing in only 2.5 days and this wasn't quite the application that made it to the usability lab etc..
The configured keys as I would imagined would bring up some fuss... no big deals, I can add some later. My original thinking on it was to set it up like the original nintendo controller. Hence that why the left hand is doing the moving, and the right hand was on the array keys which did the flipping (Button A and Button B - you remember right ;) ).
For anyone that's reading this that is also a JavaScript developer: check out YAHOO.util.Dom.batch: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/dom/YAHOO.util.Dom.html#batch - it's pretty freakin' sweet. It allows you to bind a collection of elements to a method at once :) - lylepratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i still prefer tetris DS :P
- SpookyET, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The developer needs to learn the Tetris industry standard input buttons: THE ARROW KEYS. Your game sucks, because input is f'ed up. Let's say you would use letters, instead of the arrow keys. Every first person shooter uses W, S, A, and D. Why for *****'s sake would you use S, D, and F?
- Oniony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's basically because a 'widget' is a UI component, and so is apt for both graphical tools that can be placed around the desktop and graphical controls that make up a form.
- denisio50, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Supertetris (c. 1992) was my favorite game ever. I played it way too much for the NSA to know about by revealing here. But, I called them to see what was the highest score they ever saw. They said 1.7 million. The guy laughed for about 30 seconds when I told him I had scored 2.1 million. He knew how much time I had spent. I really got my $25 worth or whatever.
Later I didn't feel too bad when a Neuroscientist at U.C. Santa Cruz demonstrated brain training for efficient oxygen consumption from Supertetris play.
hmmmm - UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Spacebar should be drop, L and R arrow keys for move, and down arrow key for rotating.
Otherwise, a nifty demo. - worbd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Reported as inaccurate. Using the word "widgets" here is extremely confusing.
For example, the first I thought about was Opera's widgets and this Tetris "clone" running on top of that:
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/widgets/info/?id=4017 - l7productions, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Also, the keyboard configuration for this is horrible. Just give me my arrow keys.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree.
Whats so great about this?
You can do it even with Opera's widget feature.
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/widgets/info/?id=4017 - knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2that's some slow ***** tetris.
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it didn't say Yahoo!. digg is headline driven, just like every other type of media. we are no different than the front page of the newspaper. get over it.
- whisperstorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ok the point of it being Digg-worthy is that someone created a game from the Yahoo UI Library - it has nothing to do with Konfabulator. The point seems to be to show of the versatility of the YUI Library. It's akin to if someone had created a tetris game with Dojo, or Mochikit... And it wasnt to create a perfect tetris game, but to show that you _could_ create something like this pretty quickly...
- Raveren, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Of all above comments, only
"i still prefer tetris DS :P "
has a positive digg count :// - JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its absolutely possible. And F-Keys too.
- timsco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Once again javascript conquers the same territory that Flash did five years ago. No Digg. It's a technical achievement but it appears that javascript isn't built for gaming.
- zleetd00d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah, well, suck it for being different.
- Phoenyx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.strille.net/works/tetris_1Kb/
Flash Tetris < 1kb - Oniony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That's just great for us Dvorak (and other keymap) users. S for left (key to right of L key on Qwerty), F for right (Y on Qwerty), it adds a whole new dimension to the game.
Would've been better with the number keys (as I'm not sure it's possible to use the cursor keys in JavaScript), maybe on 5, 6, 7, 8 for Spectrum nostalgia sake. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it is the same software except all references to Konfabulator are changed to Yahoo! Widget Engine
and whenever you download then execute a widget, it asks are you really sure you want to do that, its not a yahoo widget - asteron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3WOW! Someone finally figured out how to write a clone of tetris! Thats amazing!
I really dont think this is remotely newsworthy. What's next? Someone is going to post about a java applet that you can Sudoku on? - l7productions, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2So do I!
- xlii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Someone made a widget. Cool.
But someone made a widget yesterday, and it didn't made to front page... - rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I can't believe 30 people needed to comment on this story. No digg
- mack1082, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1come on now.. this is lame for the front page
- UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@ ChrisLowder
Huh... I've always let my left hand do the dropping, with my right hand on the three arrow keys (could be any three keys in a row, I suppose). I don't like to have to switch my middle finger between spinning and dropping. - wideawakewesley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Wow great, did you know there's been multiple microsoft gadgets for Tetris around for months.
- JesterOZ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yeah, that control scheme is wonky, and it wasn't performing very well (experienced some "invisible" pieces that never displayed but sure were stacked). Hopefully it'll be improved upon.
- monkeyMojo82, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0YUI is nice but I've found some of it to be a little buggy and bloated, IMHO. :)
- EvilRabbi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0What is the point of building a game into a widget? How does that make it more impressive than building it as NOT a widget?
- Ridgerunner, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3@retral..
This has nothing to do with Konfabulator - this is their new UI Library - which they also confusingly use the term widgets to describe. - jasonzzzz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0interesting. but I was hoping that I could use arrow key to move the shapes
- Raveren, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4I tend to be very tolerant to news that don't seem interesting to me, but this is dull, celebrating the release of a gadget...
However I too have used Konfabulator before, never tried yahoo widgets though, I think I've got an antipathy to yahoo.. - regeya, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Rated down because comment is redundant. You've reported it, thankee sai, move along.
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3It's still too bad Yahoo completely owned Konfabulator..
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