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Bastard Tetris Hates You
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Zonk
on Sun Apr 24, 2005 07:56 AM
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Press the Buttons has a post up about a Linux version of Tetris called Bastard Tetris. The name is well founded, as the game evaluates what shape you need the least and sends that as your next piece. From the Bastet site: "Have you ever thought Tetris(R) was evil because it wouldn't send you that straight "I" brick you needed in order to clear four rows at the same time? Well Tetris(R) probably isn't evil, but Bastet certainly is. >:-) Bastet stands for "bastard tetris", and is a simple ncurses-based Tetris(R) clone for Linux. Unlike normal Tetris(R), however, Bastet does not choose your next brick at random. Instead, Bastet uses a special algorithm designed to choose the worst brick possible. As you can imagine, playing Bastet can be a very frustrating experience!" Sounds like the sailing puzzle in Puzzle Pirates.
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So how long before someone changes the source (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:So how long before someone changes the source (Score:2)
Sounds like my marriage. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sounds like my marriage. (Score:2)
1D Tetris for True Geeks Only (Score:5, Funny)
Ahh 2D Tetris sucks........ ......
Only real Geeks play 1D Tetris [tetris1d.org]
Re:1D Tetris for True Geeks Only (Score:2)
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
In othe words it's just like regular tetris.
Re:hmm (Score:5, Funny)
The difference is that regular Tetris is evil by nature, whereas this one uses an algorithm to simulate evil.
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Re:hmm (Score:5, Funny)
It's not at all ironic that Tetris originates from someone who grew up under Soviet rule.
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Obligatory joke (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, Tetris plays YOU!
I feel better now.
Re:hmm (Score:3, Interesting)
Aren't you describing just about every arcade and console game from 1970 to 1985?
I know it wasn't technically the first game to have an ending, but one thing that made Super Mario Brothers (and Nintendo games in general) so revolutionary was that there was an actual goal. Before that, most games just fed you the same set of
Re:hmm (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re: you sig (Score:2)
'Evil'? Surely not, how about 'fatalistic humor'? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's not at all ironic that Tetris originates from someone who grew up under Soviet rule.
As a game of inevitable failure, tetris struck me as inspired by a rather dark fatalistic humor -- but surely 'evil' is too strong?
-wb-
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Me too (Score:4, Interesting)
Masochist, indeed (Score:3, Funny)
Certainly, playing Bastet for the first time was one of those moments in our lives as game players [slashdot.org] that made us feel strongly about something that, in the grand scheme of things, is probably pretty trivial.
Not necessarily a good feeling, though.
Sailing Puzzle? (Score:2)
--
Evan
Re:Sailing Puzzle? (Score:5, Informative)
You get progressively better ranks in the puzzle for faster completition times per board (you'd typically complete several boards over the course of a battle or a trip between two navigation points), and better ranks for your many sailors increases the speed at which the ship sails, to a predetermined maximum based on hull type (in battle, its slightly different -- I think you get four moves max regardless but if your sailors are cruddy you won't get all of them -- that could be disastrous because it allows the other ship to get somewhere it shouldn't be, like directly behind you to pound you with unanswerable cannonfire).
Puzzle Pirates, by the way, is the best free trial you'll ever play in your life. Even if you uninstall it and never get into the MMORPG part the puzzles are just breathtakingly fun to play. Its a puzzle game, except the puzzle MATTERS (imagine playing Gem Fighter to settle crew-to-crew combat and being able to brag to people that you swordfought seven guys at a time, including a Cleaver (high rank of AI), and killed them all).
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Re:Sailing Puzzle? (Score:3, Informative)
Sounds nifty, but I run Linux. (Googles) Oh, *sweet*!. There's a Linux client!
I spent hours going through archives of Games Magazine and I love Cheapass Games (it's a company if you're not familiar with them, that sells 50 to $5 really inexpensive, well designed games, usually a bunch of printed sheets in an envelope). Good game and puzzle design is an art. I'll give this a shot... later... wh
Hmm. (Score:5, Insightful)
Ltris has this too (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Ltris has this too (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Ltris has this too (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe I am retarded, but I can barely get a few lines if any with bastet. Anything resembling a traditional move on Tetris is countered by the worst possible piece every damn time.
At least I didn't get hooked on it for hours trying to get better...
Spinning Tetris (Score:4, Informative)
Screenshots here [bengarvey.com]
Re:Spinning Tetris (Score:4, Informative)
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mroe liek wingayz (Score:4, Funny)
Pufftris (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Pufftris (Score:3, Informative)
Next block? (Score:3, Informative)
I notice it still shows the next block. But does it ever lie about what the next block will be?
And maybe I shouldn't assist in the Slashdotting, but here's the offical page [altervista.org].
Re:Next block? (Score:3, Informative)
" -the brick preview now is a "would you like it, wouldn't you?" box. It displays the "most useful" brick (according to bastet's engine). Needless to say, you will *never* get that brick! "
Re:Next block? (Score:2, Funny)
Not exactly a new idea (Score:2)
Re:Not exactly a new idea (Score:2)
But if you KNOW the algorithim and only get 24 lines, wow.
Re:Not exactly a new idea (Score:4, Interesting)
Unfortunately I demoed the thing to a few folks at assembly 95 and it didn't take took long until one of them managed to defeat the algorithm:) He built a tall tower on one edge and a "roof" that extended to almost the other edge and then added the following pieces under it. (the "AI" simply tested each piece by "dropping" them from the top at each position)
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Re:Not exactly a new idea (Score:2)
Wasn't there already a Bastard Tetris? (Score:2, Interesting)
Hmmm....sounds evil but is it? (Score:3, Insightful)
You would test true tetris evilness in an online competition between the various clones. The evilest would be the one which generated the best aggregate of low average scores and high number of games played. That would signify the tetris which was best able to trick players into thinking it wasn't evil.
Please note that I don't advocate actually undtertaking such a foul endevour. The world has enough evil in it already.
-Pinkoir
Re:Hmmm....sounds evil but is it? (Score:2)
You want to string them along, slowly ramping up their frustration, giving them the hint of success every once and a while only to tear their souls slowly from their block-addled minds with a perfectly times sequence of S-bricks.
Call it Wifetris. It starts out all hot and eager, giving you amazing I brick opportunities. As the rounds go on, it grows uncaring and eventually spiteful. At the end of the game, it drops your score in half.
And, no, I haven't been married, but I do have a few divorced fr
Re:Hmmm....sounds evil but is it? (Score:2)
Joel: "For example, how do you feel about Adoph Hitler?"
Crow: "Well, he was bad, yeah."
Joel: "Okay, now how do you feel about the band Styx?"
Crow: "Oh I don't know, they had a couple of good songs, but... oh my god Joel, you're right!"
This should be more prominent in the manual (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It does! (Score:2)
Its GREAT (Score:2)
Its great. I never get frustrated with my computer, but this game really made me say bad words
8 lines, thats my record. You'll probably beat it (just make ;
The question is, is it making me a worse or a better tetris player?
Pure Evil Tetris Version (Score:2, Funny)
Monkey Island 2 (Score:2)
This is really good (Score:2)
Wesleyan Tetris (Score:3, Funny)
(Actually, it looks like there was a topic at some point in time about it in 2002 [slashdot.org]!) Oh, and a quick search reveals that there is no more Wesleyan Tetris, merely a virus out there.
Can't play it right now, but would this work? (Score:2)
But there's another way to play, which is to try to make lines one line above the current "surface" of the bin, while being careful not to leave blocks above that line that would leave gaps after the line clears.
It seems to me like if you do that, and also abandon the urge to make setups for Tetrises (which would be clo
Suspicions confirmed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Easy port to OSX [fixed] (Score:5, Informative)
Loads of fun! I didn't get a single line before I died!
(fixed the angle brackets)
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Re:For Obvious Reasons.... (Score:2)