Been trying since 2019 at the age of 8 for a maxout. Finally got one after coming short multiple times!
I only realised I wasn’t recording after checking my files for the recording and found out I didn’t have any lmao.
But I do have a picture of it.
Context: Started grinding for Max a few weeks ago after playing occasionally for years
As shrimple as that (apart from a gazillion terminal limitations and implementing NES style using text???) @ https://github.com/Strophox/tetro-tui :-)
hey yall, i cant seem to break past 12000TR on tetrio and i want to improve/have more fun playing, so looking for tips
i can downstack alright and basically just try to get tetrises b2b. i don't know how to set up any kind of spins, but i can do them if they happen to show up.. how do i practice doing them on purpose/how i should place my pieces to get b2bs with spins instead of quads?
someone after a 1v1 recommended learning 4wide and showed me a website to practice that on, but when i try it in quickplay, i don't know how to get back in like an empty enough state to start stacking again and revert back to doing tetrises.
any tips would be extremely appreciated!! thank you:)
My current setup is:
Z - CCW
X - CW
C - Hold
space - hard drop
< - left
> - right
downarrow - soft drop
I am pretty comfortable with this, but i think it may be better to remap hold or hard drop to my uparrow.
Edit: What I ended up doing was using my ring finger for Z, middle finger for X, and pointer finger for space hard drop. I’ve also remapped my hold key to uparrow. The only part that im not so sure about is 180, which I currently have on my ctrl key (idk tbh)
My last high score was 90,000 but whilst I was watching the match between Freiburg and Villa I managed to get this in.
I'm relearning how to play tetris again and I remember a perfect clear setup that i used to do before but i forget the name now. I remember its like a half tspin then a full tspin then it ends with a perfect clear. I vaguely remember the look of the setup tho but i remember the l and j piece are together (see below but im only sure ab l and j pieces but not the rest). I wish to know the name so i can search it on yt and practice it. I hope u guys know it huhu thank you!
Today I vibe-coded a 40-lines sprint version of Tetris with Codex and GPT-5.5.
I'm calling it Brookstris. It's designed to be ultra-performant for competive players.
https://brooksdubois.com/Brookstris
A little about me: I'm a frontend dev with ~8 years exp and a huge fan of codex since it dropped. I'm full stack with Typescript and Kotlin, and I've been a bit of a performance snob for a while now. I've been a passionate Tetris player for years. I went all-in on vibe coding when GPT-3 came out and it became actually feasible.
My Tetris history: I actually started with the Atari version of Tetris on windows back in the day. Of course, had it on gameboy. At one point I found Quinn on Mac OSX, that was pretty good. Then I started playing online on tetrisfriends. I was "attentionwandere" if anyone used to play lol. Loved the arena mode. I found the awesome hard-drop forums and really tried to step my game up with finesse. My record was sprint was 43s on tetrisfriends at one point.
The flash performance of tetrisfriends wasn't great, but it was still fun. After they killed tetrisfriends I moved to DS, then Tetris99 and Tetr.io, but it was never quite the same. Especially trying to hold the nunchucks like they were a keyboard (switching hands), that kind of worked so I played that for a little while. Eventually got kind of tired of them both, the ads on tetr.io, installing Java sdks, and hand cramps. Lol, sold my switch and I kinda gave up on Tetris for a little while, unfortunately.
About the Development: I've played around with the source code for Nullpomino and Apotris, extensively comparing the two and modifying them, but I could never get either one quite the way I wanted. Today I decided to scrap all of that and just vibe code something from scratch with oh-my-codex and a meta-prompting technique: I refine prompts with GPT-5.5 thinking.
I specified SRS, DAS, ARR, and competitive settings, localstorage, SolidJS and a few other things. Them, basically, I spun up an empty repo, did `npm init solid` ran through a `$deep-interview` a `$ralplan` and a `$ralph` loop and out came Brookstris! It took me about an hour total, including the follow up prompts.
>Master prompting level: Achieved!
More on the Tech: I specified Solid.js for the overal page, for it's fine-grained rendering (better than React) and a WebGL renderer with a strict 120fps minimum. It should be supremely playable. I haven't actually looked at the code, but I made sure to specify performance, performance, performance each step of the way. It uses localstorage for settings, and the entire thing is client-side (no data leaves the browser what-so-ever). It's purely for sprint, but I may add a Zen mode if people like it.
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Honestly, I love it. It's brought back my love for Tetris Sprint. Can't believe I didn't think of this sooner!
It's a very small bundle, so I've decided to deploy it to my personal site for the world to play.
I'd love your feedback on it, and feel free to check out the rest of my site too, alot of cool stuff on there.
See if you can beat my time! 54.850s
This is my Tetris rig. Goes with me everywhere. I really like the custom version of the game the Pocket Player Pro comes with. Mostly classic style gameplay with a couple key modern QoL upgrades. Visuals modeled after the 1980s System 16 tetris. It also has the NES/GB style rocket launches. Some of the things I enjoy about this version.
What do you guys like to play on?
I've been playing casually and I'm currently A rank in tetra league. I want to start actually using strategies in my gameplay and potentially go up to s, but I don't understand any of the advice that I find online. How should I start learning??
Smashed my ankle climbing this morning. Had to spend the day on the couch with the leg elevated. Glad to have the Analogue Pocket on hand, went into a trance for a couple of hours and pulled this out the bag on Apotris! Previous high score was 18m approx.
Will have to injure myself some other weekend to have a pop at beating this.
I'm surprised that no one had told me about this earlier. This is PLAYSTUDIOS' COMPLETELY original take on the TETRIS Tetris gameplay, meaning you can now play Endless Marathon mode without downloading the main app
How to get in the Marathon Minigame:
Press the "Classic Tetris" button in the home page
Pros:
- The pieces do not teleport randomly when you control them
- You do NOT have to watch a skippable ad to start the game, unlike in main app (subject to change at PS' discretion though. Who knows how long this would remain adless)
Cons:
- Swipe controls somehow managed to be more clunky than in main app
- Do NOT set your sensitivity to 5, it WILL cause your pieces to either offset by a few columns before hard dropping or hard drop even if you don't want to
- This version of Marathon is ALSO capped at lv15 and the game does not stop after you cleared 150 lines
- Lv 15 in this minigame is EVEN slower than in main app
Also a white woman will yell "Tetris" every time you get a Tetris
https://tetr.io/#R:0e0842bcc1e4
I aint going to lie, this is one of my best games every.
I’m working on a mobile puzzle game where you and the computer share one screen (top vs bottom).
Instead of separate boards, the idea is that both sides are fighting for space, and if it reaches your side—you lose.
I’m trying to figure out if this feels readable or just chaotic.
Does this make sense visually or is it confusing?
Still early, but I’m calling it Taotris for now
those were the days...😭back when it felt like everyone was into it
I made HexStacker Party, a free browser stacker where the board uses a hex grid instead of a square grid.
It supports solo play or up to 8 players on one shared screen, with phones as controllers.
I recently tested it with friends and the main feedback was that it felt pretty difficult, so I’m curious how it feels to people who already play stacking games.
I'm sure this has been asked but this used to be my favorite game of all time. It's kind of impossible for me to play now due to all of the ads on the screen. My desktop keeps "going out of focus" or whatever in the middle of intense battles. (If this is an easy fix, I'm sorry for asking, I'm old 😆)
