I never imagined I’d like playing Tetris on the command line, on a terminal on my phone (termux), but here I am!
I couldn’t find any Tetris app on fdroid, and just checked if pkgs had one. Lo and behold! It asked me to run pkgs install vitetris, and when I did, the tetris command was there to launch the game.
It’s a two step process, as opposed to just launching an app, but it is very lightweight, no tracking, and FOSS.
For anyone with termux already installed and feeling a bit nostalgic, might be worth trying it out.
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You did not ask for an alternative but just for visibility because its awesome: a great tetris clone is Techmino. It is on Github and I am getting it via Obtainium.
Have a look at netris also, open source multiplayer tetris that you can play by sshing into playnetris.com (or your own self hosted server
On termux you have to rebind the rotate buttons as they don’t have a default value but on a pc they do
ty, I had fun for 10m 👍
also try running the command
ssh playnetris.com, it’s a server that allows you to play tetris by yourself or online with strangersNethack is also available on termux. I like to play on my Chromebook when at school.
Nice! I did the same thing until my school figured out how to block Google Play
You can download and run an apk of Termux (this is v118), or even of F-Droid so you can install Termux and keep it up to date.
Does it support hjkl?
And for anyone who hates themselves, it looks like
bastetis also available!It’s wild that there aren’t any FOSS Tetris games for Android that have been updated this decade.
Games really don’t need to be updated often.
that’s a good thing. Tetris is tetris.You code in all the rules, and you’re done. any updates made in the last decade would be the types that “improve the user experience” such as allowing you to pay real money to double your chances of getting the l tetromino, a subscription which would remove the unskippable ads you get after every game, and a microtransaction that allows you to pay to play more than one game per day
Sometimes an app needs to be updated to work properly with the latest operating system. I wouldn’t say it’s great to have no updates for a decade.
This is IMO the best FOSS Tetris for Android
And of course it’s Chinese!
Love it!
So cool, I didn’t even know it was possible. If you or someone else want to try a tetris app on F-Droid I recommend Blockinger
I do not. The UX is mediocre and while it says it uses the 7-bag system, it doesn’t do that, at all.
You can also play Tetris via Emacs.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TetrisMode
Starting with OS X, every Mac has shipped with Tetris out of the box 🙂.
