By Kieron Gillen on March 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm.
Rob Hale pointed out this – er – unique version of Tetris which Boing Boing found. He challenged me to complete a line. Playing it, you swiftly realise… no, I don’t think I’m going to do that, Rob. But an alternate approach occurs to me – I wonder if I can actually fail. And I can. I win!
Click to see the full majesty of my design.
Of course, this seems like set up for a challenge for people who are dodging work. How quickly can you fail? I did it in 11.01. Who’s best at being bad? Is it you? Are you the worst?
I manfully resist a Walker-baiting gag. Go!
11/03/2009 at 13:50 fishmitten says:
You have way too much time on your hands.
11/03/2009 at 14:03 Feet says:
I lost in 7:49.
Ahaha!
11/03/2009 at 14:14 rob says:
6:33!
11/03/2009 at 14:19 rob says:
I am the biggest loser.
11/03/2009 at 14:20 beninaber says:
Finished a line in 13:42… my eyes hurt
11/03/2009 at 14:24 Feet says:
Damn it!
11/03/2009 at 14:25 Kieron Gillen says:
Rob is the worst! Rob is the worst!
KG
11/03/2009 at 14:28 Biff says:
Tetoris (along with ProgressQuest) is quietly running in the background now. Maybe it will create something beautiful.
11/03/2009 at 14:28 Tangy says:
I lost in 5:54!
Now I need something else to waste time on.
11/03/2009 at 14:34 Denton says:
8:15
I feel slow.
11/03/2009 at 14:36 Kieron Gillen says:
Tangy is incredibly bad!
KG
11/03/2009 at 14:37 Onetime says:
Maybe encounter it this way:
- Open it in firefox
- Hold down spacebar to drop pieces (little more) rapidly.
- Now click another tab with the spacebar still held.
- Release the spacebar.
you’ll see that “drop” is now locked until you press spacebar in the aplications tab again.
… i will let it run for an hour; will it finish a line eventually (?)
11/03/2009 at 14:40 Man Raised by Puffins says:
So it turns out I was a little bored…
11/03/2009 at 14:41 Sagan says:
Failed in 06:10
Then I tried to complete a single line. Until I made a mistake after 8 minutes and gave up in frustration.
11/03/2009 at 14:45 Rob says:
Only 7:05, I made the ridiculous mistake of not building the death tower centrally
11/03/2009 at 14:46 schizoslayer says:
Man Raised by Puffins Wins the Comments!
11/03/2009 at 14:51 Persus-9 says:
Lost in 7:45. Ah well, third biggest loser so far ain’t too shabby. Wait no, that’s not right… third biggest loser ain’t too smart?
I tried to do a line as well but I messed it up about a third of the way along and couldn’t face starting over or trying the second line.
11/03/2009 at 14:55 rob says:
What now for Man Raised by Puffins?
11/03/2009 at 14:56 Jpipesup says:
Finished a line in 15:36… GG beninaber, I salute you!
11/03/2009 at 14:56 Man Raised by Puffins says:
@ schizoslayer: But I wanted to be the loser. :(
11/03/2009 at 15:00 Erlam says:
What further could he possibly do?
11/03/2009 at 15:10 Aksumka says:
30 min for one line!
I’m so proud of myself!
11/03/2009 at 15:17 SPEEDCORE says:
This guy should we working for Valve :o
11/03/2009 at 15:25 Tangy says:
I wonder what other games would turn out like when scaled up. Massive Connect 4? Huge Snakes & Ladders? Enormous Solitaire (not the card game)? Monopoly with hundreds of streets?
11/03/2009 at 15:33 El_MUERkO says:
/mails link to select office wasters
/work slows to crawl
11/03/2009 at 15:39 Ian says:
I still can’t fail harder than Tangy. =(
11/03/2009 at 15:57 Peronthious says:
Finished a line? Wonderful! Now get a Tetris =D
11/03/2009 at 16:04 samalakar says:
Losers!
Ok Peronthious… here’s the
Tetris! http://imgur.com/5GFVM.png
11/03/2009 at 16:05 samalakar says:
just under 42 minutes is the Tetris time to beat
11/03/2009 at 16:08 Chalkster says:
Enter drops ‘em even faster, but the tab trick doesn’t seem to work. Shame.
11/03/2009 at 16:21 samalakar says:
Post Tetris: http://imgur.com/5GEC2.png (All that for 160 points?!)
And WTF is this?!http://imgur.com/5GF3U.png EIGHT units tall?!
11/03/2009 at 16:22 samalakar says:
http://imgur.com/5GF3U.png
11/03/2009 at 16:47 Sam says:
5:38!
11/03/2009 at 16:53 po says:
“Stampede towards the Tetoris.”
11/03/2009 at 17:01 Jazmeister says:
This is spectacularly hard to see through my monitor fuzz. Like the idea of leaving it running though. Imagine it as a persistant screen saver?
11/03/2009 at 17:01 Kieron Gillen says:
Sam is unprecedentedly bad.
Puffins is charmingly creative.
KG
11/03/2009 at 17:02 Rob says:
4:43! Huzzah, I’m the fastest loser!
11/03/2009 at 17:05 Legionary says:
But is it art?: http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n166/graviton_flux/tetris.png
11/03/2009 at 17:08 Man Raised by Puffins says:
I really should stop playing this.
11/03/2009 at 17:10 Heliocentric says:
Look on my works, ye Mighty.
11/03/2009 at 17:20 RabidZombie says:
I had EXACTLY the same idea when I first played. Took me ages…
11/03/2009 at 17:22 Rob says:
@Man Raised by Puffins
Rebuttal
11/03/2009 at 17:23 Pani says:
Wow 10 minutes to fail, that’s harder to fail than I like.
11/03/2009 at 17:25 yns88 says:
I am the pinnacle of maturity:
http://i44.tinypic.com/r91kyo.png
11/03/2009 at 17:37 Okami says:
don’t you write that with a “c”?
fail!
11/03/2009 at 17:49 yns88 says:
DON’T JUDGE ME
11/03/2009 at 18:27 Mort says:
When you finally make a line it takes like 10 seconds for all the blocks to be sweeped out :D
11/03/2009 at 18:36 apnea says:
How irresponsible for such games to be made during an economic crisis. Tsk tsk.
11/03/2009 at 22:03 Goose says:
When you let it run for a few hours, the end result is kinda perdy and modern-art-ish.
12/03/2009 at 00:22 Hajimete no Paso Kon says:
FUCK!
12/03/2009 at 00:49 Thomas Lawrence says:
5.15, which I was pretty proud of till I saw Rob’s most recent 3 minute effort.
12/03/2009 at 02:49 LukeE says:
@Goose: Sweet.
12/03/2009 at 05:02 Whiskey Jak says:
@ Biff…. you properly fucked my afternoon, and of a couple of my coworkers too… for a RPG that plays itself, Progress Quest is surprisingly time consuming. And for some reason, that put back in my head the idea of trying Dwarf Fortress for the umpteenth time… like that is going to help my productivity.
BTW, I guess you already have, but if you haven’t, you should try the Linear RPG it’s totally worth it!
http://www.sophiehoulden.com/games/thelinearrpg/
12/03/2009 at 10:16 Ian says:
Under four minutes? Holy christing christ.
12/03/2009 at 11:33 Iain says:
EPIC OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE FAIL!
12/03/2009 at 15:53 Cooper says:
Iain wins
13/03/2009 at 03:30 Axton says:
Ok, i have been at it for 5 minutes or so now and i really want to see what happens if you do nothing but hold the space bar for 24 hours. If it is allowed to be completely random what will it look like?
13/03/2009 at 17:18 Axton says:
Random Fail:
The culmination of tetoris running overnight plus a couple of hours holding the spacebar. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22999925@N06/3351152125/
…god damn it Goose
13/03/2009 at 17:28 Kieron Gillen says:
Brilliant Axton.
KG