Netris News

Since there's a lot of interest in the development of the project, we created a discussion group.

It's available here: http://groups.google.com/group/netris

We've released a new version.
The gamefield width is now 10 instead of 16
and all music has been disabled for now.

Scores are submitted to www.netris.be

This new version comes with a preview of the
online score system, new blocks and various bug fixes. Difficulty levels and the score system have been adjusted as well in order to improve overall gameplay.

Check out http://www.netris.be for more info.

Our new homepage is online.
Please visit http://www.netris.be for
the latest information and news updates.

For those of you who cannot get and build the latest sources from SVN, I created a release from a recent SVN revision. It's not ready for beta, so it will not be made available through the SF.NET page.

Instead you can download it using torrent:
http://www.bittorrent.com/users/timothyp/torrents/Netris_v2.02_Beta_Build_22234/c0245b62fd12a8f7f31698026f81834ffb4ed936/

Of course you can always get the latest version from SVN and expect a new official build soon here on Sourceforge.... read more

This is a beta release in the sense that
it is not feature complete. Included
features should work just fine.

This release includes an installer
for Windows users.

Please note that this version
requires the .NET 2.0 Framework to be installed.

You can download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en

Changes include but are not limited to
- Improved overall performance
- Faster keyboard response
- Background music (test)... read more

David Alberto has been so kind as to provide some midi sequences for the game.
These will be integrated in the next version of Netris.

On a side note, I've also increased the response time of the keyboard in order to improve the overall gameplay.

The next version of Netris
will use SDL.NET 4.x instead of 3.x

The first tests show improved graphics and
gameplay performance. With SDL.NET 4.x Netris
will run on .NET 2.0 as well.

I hope to release this updated version soon.