cheshire137/blicblock-js

A JavaScript implementation of the Blicblock game from The Sims 4.

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blicblock-js's Issues

Spamming left and down can cause blocks to overlap, not fall

Thanks to @xLeachimx.

If removing only single tetromino, remove lowest/oldest ones first

Rather than removing whichever tetromino it finds first, it should try to optimize and remove the one with the most blocks furthest down (oldest). Suggested by @jgrowl.

Highlight scores from current IP address

So a user can more easily pick out their own submitted scores on the scoreboard.

Scores of the same value should have the same rank

User settings

• Order of block preview
• Colors, especially colorblind-friendly

Remember user's initials locally for next score submission

Bonus points idea: board gets fully cleared during play

If I clear all blocks on the board, I should get extra points.

Game over screen when vertical tetromino in full middle column

Thanks to @jgrowl

blocks sometimes don't drop when a tetromino is removed

At over 80,000 points, blocks seem to fall at the same speed as they disappear, causing them to sometimes not fall.

Thanks @graham117.

Allow filtering scores by country

Map IP addresses to the country of origin. Store that in an extra field, either a string on scores or a location_id foreign key with a new locations table. Populate existing scores with their IP address's country using something like geokit-rails. Allow filtering by country on scores page.

Don't drop block immediately on key down, just speed up its descent

Requested by @jgrowl.

Pause when block first appears, rather than on left/right slide

Thanks to @asiansteev.

Upgrade to Rails 5

Currently on 4.2.0.

Global high scoreboard

Let a user post their score to a shared scoreboard anyone can look at.

active block stops falling with each tick

Some where around 70,000 points the blocks stopped dropping, but would respond to moves so I could still press down and they would shoot to the bottom.

Reverse order of preview blocks

As requested by @asiansteev and Ben. Show next block to fall at the bottom of the preview area.

Allow specifying next block in test mode

Request from @xLeachimx.

Allow swiping on mobile

Can't use arrow keys or wasd to move blocks on mobile, so add gesture support.

Scoring idea: fewer points for straight vertical tetrominos

Just because they're so easy to make. :P

Cannot scroll page on mobile

Looking at scoreboard on a tablet, scores go past the edge of the screen but cannot scroll vertically to view them all. iPad Air, landscape.

Add sounds

• When a block locks into place
• When a tetromino is formed and your score gets incremented
• Game over

Bigger score when multiple tetrominos can be removed

If a block falls into place and more than one tetromino could result, let the user get a higher score than when a single tetromino is made and removed. Remove all the matching tetromino blocks.

if i try to clear a lot of blocks (7), only 4 are cleared

i had two columns of 3 blocks of the same color, one space apart, with an off color block in the middle, like this:

O O
O O
OXO

when i put a same color block in the middle to connect them, only four of them clear, leaving me with three block :(
see the orange blocks here:

Bonus points idea: create suggested tetromino

Show a "bonus tetromino" shape off to the side where, if the user's next score comes from making that tetromino, a point bonus is given. If the next score is made with a different tetromino, the point bonus is forfeit and a new bonus tetromino is displayed.

pausing immediately after pushing down will cause tetrominos not to clear

if i drop the finishing piece for a tetromino and then pause, the next piece will appear and the tetromino will not clear

Showing more pages than there are available

The JSON response said there were only 27 pages available.

pressing left or right once causes the block to slide all the way that direction

the simplest way i've found to reproduce this bug is

• let the first block fall in the far left column (you can force it down by pressing down)
• position the second block in the far right column as it's falling (do not press down)
• once it's falling into the lowest row (again, do not press down), as it's falling naturally, press left once and it will slide all the way to the left where it's touching block 1. you can even wait until it's fully fallen into the last row but not locked into place and it will slide

i cannot get block 1 to do the slide, nor can i get block 2 to do the slide if i try to slide it from left to right (from the second column) so i think it relies on there being a block to bump into.

Show score rank when user submit score

In the notification message that comes up, show the score's rank so the user doesn't have to go to the scoreboard and find themselves.

Fix JavaScript tests

All those tests are empty, generated ones. I am shamed.

Don't show game board on pause

Thanks to @asiansteev.

Allow paging through scores

a quick down and then left or right freezes a block in midair

Switch from Angular to React

Can make use of a gem like react-rails.

Highlight block when it locks into place/stops being active

Requested by @asiansteev