Show HN: GitHub + Tetris = Gitris

Re:Show HN: GitHub + Tetris = Gitris by dylanvee on Sunday September 30, 2012 @02:30PM (#4593597)

Today I'm launching a little side project of mine. I'm striving for a sublimely simple user experience with this one: log in with your GitHub account and with one click you can launch a terminal window and instantly get matched up with another hacker for a head-to-head game. Thanks to the magic of SSH, you don't have to install a thing. It's pretty fun and feels social like IRC, not social like a Facebook Timeline-enabled Flash game.

I hope you have as much fun using Gitris as I did developing it, and I'd love your feedback.

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Re:Show HN: GitHub + Tetris = Gitris by pudgereyem on Monday October 01, 2012 @01:27PM (#4598230)

Hi dylanvee, and thanks for Gitris - it's awesome. I got it hooked up in my bash, and I will probably play this a lot. However, I think it would be awesome if you did keep track of stats/scores and made it visible thru gitris.com or what not. Main reason: Bragging Rights. That would be awesome. Thx.

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Re:Show HN: GitHub + Tetris = Gitris by shurane on Sunday September 30, 2012 @06:30PM (#4594447)

This is just far too cool. And creative too. I haven't really thought of using SSH for games.

It would be cool if X11/windowing/sharing code was just as simple as SSH. Then we could trivially do networked video games where someone hosts. That would be... neato.

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Re:Show HN: GitHub + Tetris = Gitris by nightpool on Sunday September 30, 2012 @04:04PM (#4593943)

This is an amazing quote: "Social like IRC, not social like a Facebook Timeline-enabled Flash game."

p.s. You can bet I'll be adding that to my .plan file ;)

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