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Enemy Sirtet

Developer	EnemyBoss
Genre	Puzzle
Platform	Windows
Downloads	472
About: Sirtet is Tetris spelled backwards, so guess what: This game is a Tetris clone. Tetris was invented in Russia, 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov. This game is implemented as an AWT based application, using buttons and custom lightweight components. Click here to play.

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Programmer16 GDNet+

Posted - 6/3/2005 2:47:15 AM

I had fun with this game up until the point that I had invisible blocks. I hit the button to slide my block over and I heard a click, but it was floating in midair (so I though well that sucks, not I can't fill in whats below it) then when I tried to put a block on top of that one, it went right through it. But if I tried to put a block next to that (where there are no blocks) it would stop on nothing. I was upto 16k some points.

Good job and keep up the good work (I tried your other games too).

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EnemyBoss GDNet+

Posted - 6/3/2005 10:59:52 AM

Thanks! This is my fifth game, and one that I really want to get right. Tetris is really fun, and Sirtet works quite well enough, but I really need iron out the few bugs out. This bug happened to me only once and I've been trying to reproduce it.

There is a thread that moves the block down at regular intervals, but the player can move the block any time, seperate from the thread. So maybe I have a classic shared resource problem, where the thread is in the process of locking down a block on the grid, while the player is also shifting it? I wonder if declaring my block-move functions "synchronized" would help in this case?

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dimovich

Posted - 5/4/2006 5:45:32 AM

If I were you I wouldn't use a multithreaded approach.
It would have been much easier to use a single thread
for everyting.

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