Tetromino Game

cjfaure

15:46

yay

Martin Büttner

facepalm

I think your spec for rotation is unnecessary

cjfaure

wait you can't change the name

Martin Büttner

all you need is the direction

cjfaure

???

I wanted to clarify what you rotate around

Martin Büttner

because you specify the position as the upper left corner of the bounding box anyway

then it's irrelevant what you rotate around

cjfaure

15:48

yeah ok :P

removeded

room topic changed to Tetromino Game: Discussion for the Tetromino Game KotH. (no tags)

There, I fixed the title.

Sandbox post

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Now that I've made a chatroom, there's no discussion. :c

githubphagocyte

yay!

I think Rainbolt was right about it working in the main room

if no one is complaining, more eyes is better

cjfaure

;3

cjfaure

16:09

Hm, I think we should use pentominoes instead

Martin Büttner

@cjfaure I don't

cjfaure

@MartinBüttner why?

Martin Büttner

... think we should use pentominoes

tetrominoes should be complicated enough

cjfaure

there are only 5 tetrominoes...

Martin Büttner

also it would be simpler if you could just select your tetromino as an integer instead of having to produce a valid ASCII representation

@cjfaure sounds enough to me

cjfaure

16:16

kk

Martin Büttner

a simple square, two different ones which can only be rotated, and two different ones which can be rotated and mirrored

that's plenty of strategy

cjfaure

k, check the post

Martin Büttner

16:43

:O one-based counting...

is this the canonical order? if not, I'd recommend ordering them in order of strategical complexity

cjfaure

@MartinBüttner yeah, that was because 1 is farthest on the left on my keyboard,

@MartinBüttner and it's not canon :P

though the ordering is pretty much in order of complexity

Martin Büttner

well

square first, then I and T, then S and L

cjfaure

k

Martin Büttner

you may flip S and L if you like ^^

in fact you probably should

cjfaure

@MartinBüttner editeded

Martin Büttner

16:57

lovely

this is going to be amazing!

cjfaure

I can't wait to see how smart (or utterly idiotic) the top submission is :D

Martin Büttner

haha yes

cjfaure

Added a 4-second time limit.

The scoreboard would go just above the "Submissions" section :D

Added a GO message for when it's your turn.

I'll make my controller have a GUI :D

Martin Büttner

3D with an animation of tiles being flipped, rotated and translated

cjfaure

yes

very much that

So now all that's left to do is write the controller (board generation doesn't have to be detailed in the post)

I'll start writing tomorrow, I think I've typed about this enough for today :P

Martin Büttner

17:27

Well the density needs to go in the spec, but you already have that

cjfaure

Seeing as I have no life, I'll just say "It's tomorrow in Australia" and write the controller now.

Martin Büttner

:D

Do the controllers get any information (like results of previous games) before making their decision for choosing a tetromino?

That would be sick

cjfaure

opens up pyglet docs

Martin Büttner

At least you could allow them to persist data in a file or so

cjfaure

@MartinBüttner they're allowed to open files and such

Martin Büttner

17:32

oh okay

yeah in that case

someone will come up with it

awesome

cjfaure

i forgot how pleasant pyglet is...

PhiNotPi

17:49

Name ideas I'm thinking of as I'm writing them:
Tetropoly - Tetwist - Xtreme Tetrominos - If It Fits, It Sits - Tetradical

cjfaure

"Tetrapak" is the name of a drinks container manufacturing company.

(which I know because I'm the GNU creep who looks on containers for the company name.)

Martin Büttner

I know that because that's what they are actually called in Germany

cjfaure

@MartinBüttner o;

@PhiNotPi i like the second last one

Martin Büttner

well it's how people call tissues Kleenex sometimes (they do, right?)

cjfaure

@MartinBüttner yeah

Brand generalizations

Martin Büttner

17:54

@cjfaure that one is also long enough

cjfaure

i hate it

i hate it i hate it i hate it

goes on rage trip with flamethrower

okay next time I'm making a KotH,

I'm STARTING with the name

"Banana Brawl: Fruit Facedown"

PhiNotPi

@cjfaure "Coming soon to WWE RAW"

Martin Büttner

Banana Brawl... sounds.... gross....

cjfaure

@PhiNotPi well duh, nobody cooks fruit

badumtss.net

okay so my strategy for generating the board is to place a tetromino randomly outside of the board's current bounds, and move it towards the center until it can't move anymore

or is at the center

Martin Büttner

I think that will create too little density

cjfaure

18:09

@MartinBüttner for every 1 piece, there should be 3 empty blocks.

Martin Büttner

my suggestion: pick a random player, rotate and flip his tetromino randomly, place it greedily in the first available position

yeah okay... I mean... just try any approach and you'll see what density you get

cjfaure

yeah :P

Uhm, though, we're going for density within a square, neither of those work well with a square

Maybe get the dimensions beforehand and use a packing algorithm?

Martin Büttner

with a density of 4/7 you might just get away with placing them randomly and discarding overlaps

btw I'm totally volunteering to write you a few simple entries to kick things off ^^

I think I'm gonna make post with "The Greedy Five"

one bot with each shape which just picks the first valid position it can find.

cjfaure

:D

well the protocol is pretty much done, so ^^;

Martin Büttner

(and ignores neutral pieces)

@cjfaure meh, I'm gonna wait until the controller is ready... chances are you'll notice that the protocol could be improved once the controller is done

cjfaure

18:15

@MartinBüttner i guess

Martin Büttner

and I should spend some time on my domino controller

cjfaure

gotta watch Noragami, but limited to less than 4gb bandwidth for the rest of the month

/r/firstworldproblems

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