I am the man who arranges the blocks
Feb. 2nd, 2011 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnYou've probably seen this already, but there's a really amazing music video on Youtube that describes the history of the Soviet Union using the metaphor of a game of Tetris, using the game's quite possibly unintentional commentary of the pointlessness of building an endless wall. The production values are very good for a self-branded "anti-folk" band, which happens to have the unusual name of "Pig with the Face of a Boy". Why can't bands have proper names, like Glory Storm or The Tony Danza Tap-Dancing Extravaganza?
I was reminded of it by my brother, who posted it in response to my mention of Tetris playable on a torus, by Ben Joffe. Playing on a ring instead of a two-dimensional field seems to make the game much easier than you would think - there feels like there's a lot more space to move around, and you can't form valleys or hills as easily. What makes it even more impressive is that it's done entirely in Javascript with the Canvas element... I was just searching around for example HTML5-type games to put into a webapp, and the next thing I knew, it was about six days later.
I was reminded of it by my brother, who posted it in response to my mention of Tetris playable on a torus, by Ben Joffe. Playing on a ring instead of a two-dimensional field seems to make the game much easier than you would think - there feels like there's a lot more space to move around, and you can't form valleys or hills as easily. What makes it even more impressive is that it's done entirely in Javascript with the Canvas element... I was just searching around for example HTML5-type games to put into a webapp, and the next thing I knew, it was about six days later.
