Quadra is a great puzzle game originally by Ludus Design. Quadra is like Tetris but features a kind of "gravity" so loose blocks fall down until they get stuck. This enables you to clear massive amouts of lines at once. In fact, if you build up the blocks correctly, you could use 1 piece to take out 15 or even more lines! Quadra is a fast, fun and very addictive game which comes with full internet support! Quadra, which used to cost $10 to register, is now open source and freeware. What a bargain!
Quadra Features:
Windows and Linux versions
Totally free multiplayer Internet play that is very lag free
TCP/IP Support for LAN games
Excellent user interface
Multiplayer chat
Multiplayer watch modes
CD music player
10 different sound and graphic schemes for the different levels
Shadows of blocks to help you place the blocks easily
Slow, Normal, Fast and Faster modes to control the blocks at your speed
Smooth, clean graphics
Local multiplayer game of up to 3 players
Internet game supports 8 players and many observers, as well as up to 3 players per computer
It's free! :-)
Recording games, allowing you to record and later playback your best single player and multiplayer games.
A top 5 Internet listing which you can add you name to automatically if you get a top score
Fully customizable multiplayer modes with teams and different winning conditions
Fully customizable controls with buttons to rotate left, rotate right AND rotate 180 degrees
Extra Qsnoop taskbar program which lists current internet games
It also features really fast levels that'll have those blocks flying down on you, driving you crazy!
2.2) Controls
The default controls are as follows:
Left arrow - Move block piece left
Right arrow - Move block piece right
Down arrow - Force block piece down
Ctrl button - Rotate block left
Alt button - Rotate block right
2.3) The Pieces
The blocks are formed from the 7 different ways of arranging 4 squares together:
The Straight piece. Green in color.
The 'L' piece. Purple in color.
The 'J' piece. Yellow in color.
The 'T' piece. Blue in color.
The 'S' piece. Cyan in color.
The 'Z' piece. Red in color.
The Square piece. Orange in color.
2.4) What to do with the pieces
Each piece will fall from the top of the screen into a section called the canvas. As the piece falls down, you can move it into various positions and spin it around. Once the piece hits the bottom is gets stuck.
Yeah, it's season 11. But the OTL Season 6 highlight reel is up, this time Fireball has taken the reins! Check out this video jam packed full of kills, deaths, silliness, and Sirius puns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXstLVjnaGo
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Does anyone know of some way to get a human to look at this and see what's wrong with it? #bing#microsoft
Me and my wife, despite buying a house of nice size, always seem to get in each other's way, be it in the kitchen, on the stairs, it doesn't matter. She's all up in my two square feet.
I often joke that all I want for Christmas is my two square feet.
I got the honor and privilege of calling the NES Tetris NTSC world record today while running Classic Tetris Wars on my Twitch channel for the very first time. It was thrilling. Congratulations to Blue Scuti for his 6,609,220 level 153 performance. https://clips.twitch.tv/DiligentDeadGoldfishDoritosChip-cx_vDMWAjKaZUK6N
Six Degrees of Sunday, my 6DoF long play Twitch series, is getting revived for 2024. Plus, I will be producing Six'd Off, a companion YouTube series showcasing each game.
@shanselman Speaking of Overload, here's something you may be interested in... recently, some community members released "Overload First Strike", a single player Overload campaign that is a complete remake of the original Descent First Strike campaign.
It can work with just the original game, but it works best with "olmod" as it takes advantage of some of the features it provides: https://olmod.overloadmaps.com