Comments on: Play Go Tetris! 1.1

By: Marathon

Marathon — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:41:42 +0000

Updating my Operating System (as a new installation), the repositories had only the latest version of Flash that will not work on my system. Since older versions of Flash have known security issues, I thought I’d try gnash before getting an out-of-date version of Flash.

The game will run under gnash, but has frequent pauses. The pauses are especially long when there is a removal. Overall, I found playing Go-Tetris under gnash annoying.

By: Marathon

Marathon — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:05:10 +0000

I was able to put Flash back to an older version.

By: Marathon

Marathon — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:39:06 +0000

AAAAHHHHHH! I updated my software this morning and the updates included a Flash update. Now Flash doesn’t work on my computer at all! I hope I can go back to the previous version.

By the way, Adobe says there will be no more Flash versions for Linux.

By: Marathon

Marathon — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:03:29 +0000

I assume for single color, it keeps track of what the score would have been if the same game had been played in fast mode instead, and adjusts the level according to the “fast mode score.” Would my assumption be correct?

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:46:29 +0000

OK, I did a little digging, because I wasn’t sure (it’s been a long time!), and here’s what it looks like:

For Normal mode, levels advance when total captures (TC) + total living stones removed (TL) is greater than level * level * 10. So:
if ( TC+TL >= level * level * 10 ) level++;

The formula for Hard Mode & Single Color Mode is just:
if ( TC + TL >= level * 10 ) level ++;

…so it just takes a lot longer for your level to change in normal mode. You’ve probably also noticed that when you remove a particularly large group, you might jump lots of levels. The function that checks whether you’ve advanced a level is recursive, so it keeps calling itself until you are at the level you “should” be at, (hopefully that makes any sense).

There was some speculation earlier about score calculation. Here are the formulas:

Normal: level * score * score
Hard & single color: level * level * score * score

By: Marathon

Marathon — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:14:03 +0000

I wonder what the rules/formulas are for level advancement.

By: Marathon

Marathon — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:35:30 +0000

I misunderstood. It looks like you are right. The formula in fast mode seems to be C^2 * L^2.

By: Marathon

Marathon — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:01:32 +0000

As far as I can tell, the scoring for fast mode and normal mode is the same, but the levels increase faster. By the way, one color mode appears to be a form of fast mode.

By: zomgfrank

zomgfrank — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:53:52 +0000

Marathon, you are a beast.

(But I will catch you one day!)

Any speculation on scoring calculations for Fast Mode?

Martin mentioned something about it being (c x c x l x l) where c = captures and l = level for normal mode.

By: Marathon

Marathon — Mon, 23 May 2011 00:05:10 +0000

I saw, again, the bug where a piece is stuck at the top. It won’t fall, but it can be rotated left and right and the score and level keep going up. Something different, I noticed, though. Just before it happened, I was positioning either an “s” or a “z” piece with 2 black and 2 white stones. It touched another stone, some of the stones in the falling piece shifted, so it became a block.