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Wrapping your mind around a simple game like 99 Bricks is harder than you might imagine. The object of the game is to build the highest possible tower using only 99 pieces. Sounds easy enough, but you're playing with Tetris pieces and distinctly non-Tetris physics. If you screw up, you don't just leave gaps that you could have used to score points, you cause your whole tower to wobble and collapse.
Pieces also don't lock to a grid in 99 Bricks, the way they do in Tetris. You can wind up with pieces slanted diagonally, and there's an edge of the board that your toppled bricks can fall off of. 99 Bricks is kind of like Jenga, in that it's almost as satisfying to watch your tower crumble as it is to play seriously. Once you get the hang of the way the pieces behave, it's an addictive little game.
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Andreas said 6:20PM on 5-27-2008
Would be interesting to compare a table vs. css based layout this way.
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kenna said 10:32PM on 5-27-2008
I just don't get it.
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Andrew Edahl said 12:21AM on 5-28-2008
sexy.
what you're not getting is the fact that if you had .5 kb/s internet, and a sick nasty graphics card, this is what you'd see.
This is what your browser is doing as you stare at a blank page, waiting for something to pop up.
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dgtljunglist said 1:35AM on 5-28-2008
Andrew:
Actually, not quite. What you're basically seeing is just the markup and css styling being parsed. This all happens at once after all markup is downloaded and before any rendering occurs.
Bandwidth has more to do with images/media loading.
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Andrew Edahl said 5:51PM on 6-15-2008
Ah... my mistake..
Thanks.
Colin said 2:26PM on 5-28-2008
This totally needs some techno music to go with.
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whiskey said 11:50PM on 5-28-2008
Quick... somebody make a Firefox AddOn that does just this!
Imagine being able to understand why your site takes longer to render. This tool would be great to explain to clients what you mean when you say "leaner code means faster pages" or what you do when you do the voodoo that you do.
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