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Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by davidmurphy on Sunday April 25, 2010 @11:50PM (#1294053)
Not only is it impressive technically, but the circular Tetris game is extremely fun and well executed!
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by dca on Sunday April 25, 2010 @11:06PM (#1294008)
Thats one of the more innovative Tetris oriented games I've seen in a few years. I was surprised how smooth it works in the browser, even though I've seen a few of the other cool things folks are doing with HTML5 these days. Good stuff.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by justinph on Sunday April 25, 2010 @11:41PM (#1294039)
Very cool. Was just playing this and my wife walked in and said "Cool, I want to play that!".

>>>As an aside, I love that this isn't flash, but it makes my CPU & fans go just as nuts as if it was.

Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by samratjp on Monday April 26, 2010 @02:48AM (#1294290)
Hmm, just curious, was this in OSX?
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by justinph on Monday April 26, 2010 @09:57AM (#1294853)
But of course!
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by samratjp on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @02:00AM (#1297355)
haha, thought so. I love using my MacBook to watch flash videos on wintery nights when I am too lazy to search for a blanket.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by bsaunder on Monday April 26, 2010 @08:39AM (#1294706)
To all those job hunting... instead of a resume, write something like this.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by chaosmachine on Monday April 26, 2010 @01:39AM (#1294205)
I knew I had seen this on HN before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=514838

Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by nirmal on Monday April 26, 2010 @09:20AM (#1294784)
Oops. 400 days ago I was in a hole studying for my qualifying exams. :) I had blocked out HN in my hosts file.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by koanarc on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:23AM (#1294097)
Wow. There have been a lot of cool canvas demos to date, and these are certainly on that list. I am stoked for the future of the internet, guys. Stoked as the dickens.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by Batsu on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:40AM (#1294119)
Other than the few non-standard pieces (At one point, I had a C shaped block, and another an L made of 3 pieces), love it. Nicely done.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by TrevorBurnham on Monday April 26, 2010 @09:54AM (#1294846)
True; if pieces consist of 3-5 blocks, then it's not Tetris. It's Tri/Tetra/Penta-is.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by trafficlight on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @12:40PM (#1298768)
I never put that together until just now.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by peregrine on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:48AM (#1294132)
Not to be a buzz kill or anything or take away from the technical neatness of it but... this has been around on Opera as a widget for a long time.

2006 was when he got the first comment on the widget. http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4196/1.2/6/#comments-begin

Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by koanarc on Monday April 26, 2010 @01:16AM (#1294172)
Yeah, but...who uses Opera?

...I kid, I kid!

In all seriousness, though, a widget on a browser with a chronic ~2% usage share is one thing. The exact same thing available on any standards-compliant browser is quite another, wouldn't you say?

Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by peregrine on Monday April 26, 2010 @03:42PM (#1295731)
I completely agree, just stating some facts about it. :)
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by senki on Monday April 26, 2010 @04:58AM (#1294443)
Created by the same guy, Ben Joffe from Opera Software.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by DCoder on Monday April 26, 2010 @02:32AM (#1294269)
I tried Tetris ... 11k points later I realised that 25 minutes had gone by. Addictive, and very well done from both technical and gameplay perspective!
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by samdk on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:20AM (#1294090)
All of these feel a lot more native than Flash ever has.
Re:Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical T... by bsergean on Monday April 26, 2010 @01:47AM (#1294215)
1871 points. I'm not dead yet (and I got bored after a while, just managed to go back to the ground floor). Last time I was good at tetris was on the Game boy, which is ... old.