Comments on: Play Go Tetris! 1.1

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.

By: Marathon

Marathon — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:16:14 +0000

I disagree. This is a great Tetris variant.

The shape of the falling tiles is random. Whether a tile shape is easy or hard depends on what it is falling over.

I think the 19×19 go board format is an improvement.

Just as in other Tetris variants, you might be challenged to avoid getting into problem situations, and, if you do make a mistake, you are challenged to fix it.

I think the speed of the falling tiles is fine in fast mode.

By: ....

.... — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:47:39 +0000

this is just so bad….

you have too many difficult shapes compared to easy shapes (maybe 75% hard shapes and 25% easy shapes). peices moves too fast, the board is as wide as it’s tall, not like in tetris, makes the game hard for beginners.
there are misstakes that cannot be corrected, which makes the game very flawed, you cannot make any big moves, you’re bound to take small points since 1 misstake can lock away 50% of the board permanently….

this game is not anything like tetris, remove the name “tetris” from it. I do not support that people takes a good game with a good concept and makes bullshit out of it.

// disappointed and offended player.

By: Marathon

Marathon — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:40:04 +0000

I noticed scores of zero are not being recorded.

I had a couple of games recently in which I reached a level above 20, but I was in one color mode, and ended up with a score of zero. (Had zero not been the minimum, it would have been negative.)