Comments on: Dream of Pixels (Dawn of Play)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:44:49 +0000

hmm, seems like it might be gone for good

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:30:25 +0000

Glad to hear it! (And I should admit: despite my comment above, I played a third time anyway.)

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:28:30 +0000

Curiously, it looks like that may also be roughly when the excellent (link currently broken, possibly just from monthlybandwidth limits?) TETRISweeper was posted, though it seems it didn't leak over into the English language web until half a year or so later.

By: Žiga

Žiga — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:43:48 +0000

Amazing, I haven’t found Untris until your mention here, and I searched for reverse Tetris in the past year – had to write Stephen immediately!
It’s just mind blowing to me – must have been some kind of collective consciousness thing there around June-July 2011 or sth..

By: Žiga

Žiga — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:16:06 +0000

Hey,
I think I can safely claim we fixed this in the final Dream of Pixels game (launching tomorrow).

We also added a Pro mode that starts at level 9, for just the reason you mention!

Cheers!

By: thecreepyhour

thecreepyhour — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:37:03 +0000

I like how the game repurposes Tetris’ “next” box.

Also, reminds me of increpare’s “Untris”.

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:34:45 +0000

More interesting than it at first appears, but it takes way too long before any real pressure is applied and so I’m not so compelled to play a third time to improve my score. A more difficult mode would be appreciated to cut down on all that early wasted time.

(That said, this criticism is probably valid for Tetris itself, as well, and that didn’t do so badly — though it did have the falling block field to itself for a while.)

By: JDM

JDM — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:06:44 +0000

If ever a game was to teach you to reconsider your first impulse, this is it.

I really, really like this.