Do you love Tetris? Do you have an unreasonable amount of time and patience on your hands? If so, you might want to check out this absolutely massive Tetris game. By my (admittedly poor) math skills, it measures roughly 300 blocks across and the one line I managed to clear while playing it took a whopping seventeen minutes to accomplish.
As a game, it's incredibly boring. Taken as an artistic venture, however, it winds up being really pretty cool. If you just leave it running for about a day (the above example ran on my computer for almost 19 hours), checking in periodically, it takes on a form that resembles coral growing or those kickass Magic Rock sets from my childhood.
Anybody want to attempt to beat my wicked high score?
[Via Geekologie]
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2:00 PM on 03.22.2009
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*bets it's a divide-by-zero kind of world-ending thing*
@AgentMoo
I really don't think it was intended to be well designed. The only ways to make it more "fun," I would think, would be to make the tetriminos bigger, and defeating the point, or making it go faster, which would either be amazingly irritating or the same as holding down space bar.
i give up!