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Work · October 9, 2012

Realtime Multiplayer Tetris in HTML5 (unfinished)

About a year ago me and a buddy joined Google's HTML5GameJam, a game building hackathon. Finally I've had the time to dust the project off, upgrade some of the required libraries (node.js bumped from 0.4.2 to 0.8.11 in the meantime) and did some minor patching to get it done for some finishing touches and hopefully release somewhere this year. We implemented the full real Tetris® (yeah, that means T-Spins and funky stuff Tetris addicts like) in MVC, with configurable renderers (canvas, ASCII, Divs), input methods (keyboard, swipe, touch), 2player split mode and offline singeplayer. The…

Realtime Multiplayer Tetris in HTML5 (unfinished) launched on October 9, 2012 with 8 votes, #130 of 487 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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TetriNET is a multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six people that supports team play. [ 2 ] TetriNET was originally developed by St0rmCat in 1997, [ 2 ] with its last official version as 1.13. The game was originally developed for Windows and was later ported to other systems. St0rmCat released TetriNET2 in 2000, which features improved graphics, more types of special blocks, additional features (such as hold piece and block shadows), and a master server. [ 3 ] TetriNET plays like standard multiplayer Tetris but with a twist: clearing rows will cause special blocks to appear in the player's field. If a line containing a special block is cleared, then that special block is added to the…from en.wikipedia.org

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About a year ago me and a buddy joined Google's HTML5GameJam, a game building hackathon. Finally I've had the time to dust the project off, upgrade some of the required libraries (node.js bumped from 0.4.2 to 0.8.11 in the meantime) and did some minor patching to get it done for some finishing touches and hopefully…

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