ntris: an idea taken a step too far
About nine months ago, I lost a lot of free time to a little applet called Pentris. The addition of pentomino pieces made the gameplay quite different from the original falling block game, but I couldn’t help but think that Pentris didn’t go far enough. As a programmer, I had to implement the natural generalization of the game. After a much longer development cycle than I had originally anticipated, ntris is now ready. (You’ll need Java to run the applet.)
In ntris, as your score increases, so does the probability that you will get increasingly large polyominoes. At the beginning, you’ll only get pieces made of 1-5 squares. By the time your score gets to 100, about one piece in three will be a hexomino – and that’s still just the beginning. Very few of my beta-testers have survived long enough to see a decomino. The current high is 421, by wuthefwasthat – can you beat it?
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