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by conanbatt 4908 days ago
When i started Kaya.gs and even during it, i always wondered if games will arrive to the html environment at any time.

Tetris is the most basic game and yet even in this (perfectly fine) example, its far for complete. It lacks sound and many other things, which lead me to believe that if there is an HTML game era, its far away yet.

A standard tetris on classic Java/C# languages take a day to do at most and are an exercise as simple as doing a CRUD for web development.
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vlaube 4908 days ago
I think you misunderstood the intentions here, the game was not supposed to be a demonstration of what is possible with HTML5.

The author probably just wanted to show what he does to practice his programming skills.

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princemaple 4908 days ago
Well, html5 can do music and better graphics. It's just me being a noob and not intending to do so. BTW, it took me about one hour and I was/am new to js. It is already the HTML era. Just the very start of it.
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PetitPrince 4908 days ago
For a more advanced version of Tetris in HTML5, I suggest you take a look at Francesco Cottone's rendition of it at http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/ (it's called T-Spin).

It makes a pretty darn good at emulating the game mechanics of the best versions of Tetris (namely the arcade version "Tetris the Grand Master", but also the Gameboy, NES and DS version).

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