I never imagined I’d like playing Tetris on the command line, on a terminal on my phone (termux), but here I am!

I couldn’t find any Tetris app on fdroid, and just checked if pkgs had one. Lo and behold! It asked me to run pkgs install vitetris, and when I did, the tetris command was there to launch the game.

It’s a two step process, as opposed to just launching an app, but it is very lightweight, no tracking, and FOSS.

For anyone with termux already installed and feeling a bit nostalgic, might be worth trying it out.

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    It’s wild that there aren’t any FOSS Tetris games for Android that have been updated this decade.

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      that’s a good thing. Tetris is tetris.You code in all the rules, and you’re done. any updates made in the last decade would be the types that “improve the user experience” such as allowing you to pay real money to double your chances of getting the l tetromino, a subscription which would remove the unskippable ads you get after every game, and a microtransaction that allows you to pay to play more than one game per day

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        Sometimes an app needs to be updated to work properly with the latest operating system. I wouldn’t say it’s great to have no updates for a decade.

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        Except tetris is not as stable as you might think
        The current ruleset uses vastly different rotation systems than the games in the early days, or Akira’s TGM series.
        Moreover, you can add new features without it being pay 2 win (or even paid), like tetr.io does: ranked matches, leaderboards, tournaments, social interaction, etc… They can also make new rules, like how they recently removed passthrough in online matches.

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    You did not ask for an alternative but just for visibility because its awesome: a great tetris clone is Techmino. It is on Github and I am getting it via Obtainium.

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      Gotta try this for fifteen minutes then ditch it forever. Never heard of it before, but as they say: curiosity killed the cat!

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        Yep… definitely crazy. Tried easy, was thinking I seemed to be pretty smart up to 4 lines. Then it just kept screwing me with two alternating pieces and the holes started. It loves giving you angles that go the wrong way around given your current block layout 😅

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    also try running the command ssh playnetris.com, it’s a server that allows you to play tetris by yourself or online with strangers

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    Nethack is also available on termux. I like to play on my Chromebook when at school.

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        Yeah the restrictions on Chromebooks are really annoying. Termux is the only way I can actually program on my chromebook and if they remove that I guess it’s time to buy a Thinkpad.

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      I do not. The UX is mediocre and while it says it uses the 7-bag system, it doesn’t do that, at all.

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    That’s cool but looks like an absolute disaster to play with a smartphone keyboard. Or even just the buttons they give.

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    Have a look at netris also, open source multiplayer tetris that you can play by sshing into playnetris.com (or your own self hosted server

    On termux you have to rebind the rotate buttons as they don’t have a default value but on a pc they do