Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical Tetris"

[davidmurphy]

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

[dca]

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.

[justinph]

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.

[samratjp]

Hmm, just curious, was this in OSX?

[bsaunder]

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

[chaosmachine]

I knew I had seen this on HN before:

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

[nirmal]

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

[koanarc]

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.

[Batsu]

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.

[TrevorBurnham]

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

[peregrine]

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

[koanarc]

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?

[senki]

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

[DCoder]

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!

[samdk]

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

[bsergean]

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.