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Simon Laroche
Personal blog · simon.lc · on HN as simonlcgamesprogrammingmath
Simon Laroche's personal blog at simon.lc covers games, programming and math. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “A history of Tetris randomizers (2018)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Simon Laroche's article on the history of Tetris randomizers, which compares how different Tetris games pick pieces. Commenters cite it as a reference. The site also hosts a browser Tetris game.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A history of Tetris randomizers (2018)13 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2019-05-22
- /tetr.js/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-28
What Hacker News says?
There are lots of fun ways to smooth out short-term variation in game randomness. This article shows a few used by various Tetris games, with one of them being your deck-of-cards approach: https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers One of my favourite techniques not listed there is weighting the probabilities by distance, so individual outcomes get more likely the longer you've not seen them (making the gamb…
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on “Some Useful Probability Facts for Systems Programming”Submitted A history of Tetris randomizers (2018) as a story · 120 points
HN discussionhttps://tetr.io/ is probably the best unofficial game, especially if you're into multiplayer variants. For single player https://jstris.jezevec10.com/ or https://simon.lc/tetr.js/ are the best.
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on “Teens are rewriting what is possible in the world of competitive Tetris”Submitted Conway's Game of Life in HTML5 as a story · 26 points
HN discussionInteresting, I didn't know about the tetris randomizers! https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers
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on “A new core playlist for VLC 4”Submitted Tetris Randomizers (2018) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionnegative. modern tetris has moved way beyond NES' system. there have been many improvements to the game, like a holding piece, hard drop, the ghost piece you mentioned, advanced maneuvers like t-spins, and most interesting of all (to me) is the improved piece selection [1]. you're probably aware of the tall block meme -- when you need it, it never shows up! well that's been more or less solved. there's also interest…
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on “Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to Add Hard Drop”Submitted A History of Tetris Randomizers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers
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on “Can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris?”Submitted Tetris Randomizers (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthis one? https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers
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on “Tetris is NP-hard even with O(1) rows or columns (2020) [pdf]”Submitted Tetris Randomizers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee also: "A history of Tetris randomizers": https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20872110
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on “First place in Tetris 99 using computer vision, classical AI, a lot of free time”Submitted Tetris Randomizers (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe sole purpose of TTC seems to be licensing and protecting Tetris. They don't make any games, but recently have started selling merch online. There is no copyright on Tetris, the lawsuits were based on "trade dress", which is silly, since nearly every Tetris game looks different. I actually have my own clone online, and so far haven't heard a peep from TTC. knocks on wood I think maybe it's because they've relaxed…
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on “Are There Any Tetris Games for Mac?”Submitted Tetris Randomizers (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI did the same thing, implementing all the guideline rules into my JS version of tetris here: http://simon.lc/tetr.js/ However over the years, even after the guideline was instituted, there have been many different types of randomizers used. Of course, the original having none, and many a long the way having bugs.
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on “Tetris Written in Go”This is a bit of a tangent, and not sure I’ll have any other opportunity to mention this here, but… I used to play the heck out of Tetris on to OG Game Boy. I probably played it, by far, more than any other Game Boy game, and probably any game around that 5-10 year period. But boy has it not aged well, at all. I played it recently on the Switch, and couldn’t handle it for more than a few minutes. The lack of multipl…
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on “Wooden Game Boy”
