Falling Blocks

[sonte]

Hello everyone, I wanted to show off my "blocks" game here. The graphics are nothing special, and I did end up dropping the global high score options in favor of not over complicating the back end. Please let me know what you think.

game : Falling Blocks

[Callan S.]

Very neatly implemented. I got to 160.

Maybe there could be a reward of some kind for when you drop the blocks down the screen quickly?

[Jackolantern]

Very nice and well-polished! It even auto-pauses on changing tabs, which is a great touch.

Nice job here!

[sonte]

I think the pause feature might actually be something of chrome and not my game. I noticed it too, but there is nothing in my code to do that.

[Jackolantern]

I think the pause feature might actually be something of chrome and not my game. I noticed it too, but there is nothing in my code to do that.

Interesting lol. Did you use some kind of engine? Because I know JS isn't automatically paused when you change tabs, even in Chrome. Otherwise chat-type services would not work correctly.

[hallsofvallhalla]

impact, melon, and a few others auto pause.

Some suggestions
The game is really slow in the beginning. I was at 600 points and still at level 1 and super slow. Very easy to just keep going and going.
Make some noise and celebrations when taking more than 1 line. I find no difference in points when getting 5 lines at once or 5 lines in 1 liners.

Overall very nice job!

[sonte]

I think the pause feature might actually be something of chrome and not my game. I noticed it too, but there is nothing in my code to do that.

Interesting lol. Did you use some kind of engine? Because I know JS isn't automatically paused when you change tabs, even in Chrome. Otherwise chat-type services would not work correctly.

Nope, but I did use setTimout instead of request animationframe.

And Halls thx for the suggestions. I will make the lvl progression faster and look into some type of overlay graphics for more lines.