Any actively maintained FOSS Tetris games?

3 years ago by PapyrusOsiris to c/fossdroid

On fdroid the best I could find was Blockinger which was last updated 9 years ago. It seems to work fine on my phone, but I do wonder if there are any newer projects or improved forks that I can use. Thanks!

MajesticFlame 6 points 3 years ago

I mean, what exactly do you want to improve and maintain in tetris? Isn't that kind of solved problem?

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PapyrusOsiris 6 points 3 years ago

The UI of Blockinger leaves a lot to be desired. The ability to swipe to interact would be a huge improvement over the buttons taking up half the screen.

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NettoHikari 4 points 3 years ago

I personally think that tetris without tactile buttons is not fun. But everyone's different, I guess.

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PapyrusOsiris 6 points 3 years ago

Virtual buttons on a touch screen just feels like an artifact of an earlier generation of phone games. I have friends that play a lot of Tetris on mobile and all of their modern non-foss tetris games use swipe controls.

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NettoHikari 5 points 3 years ago

Okay, I didn't think of swipe controls. Yeah, that'd be feasible. Anything where you don't have to look at your fingers is good.

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I_like_cats 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah that would be great. I tried developing my own Tetris clone for a bit but lost interest too fast

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august_senpai 2 points 3 years ago

https://github.com/MrStahlfelge/lightblocks The best Tetris game on Android IMO. Disclaimer: some assets are OSS, not FOSS.

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darcmage 1 point 3 years ago

https://github.com/retrowars/retrowars

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DillingerEscPlan 1 point 3 years ago

I have one on my phone that was installed and forgotten about. It is called Techmino, and I can only assume it is FOSS if I downloaded it. Made by 26-F studio. Github: https://github.com/26F-Studio/Techmino

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