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kroyee / SpeedBlocks

Fast paced tetris game cloned from Cultris II
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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[UX] Holes in the garbage lines too easy? #91

Closed jefgenowitsch closed 7 years ago

jefgenowitsch commented 7 years ago

Is this coincidence or could the holes in the lines be more fine tuned, e. g. made more random and more away from each other. The holes in the screenshot seem to be mirrored and slightly changed.

speed 2017-04-11 17-29-02-044

kroyee commented 7 years ago

It currently uses a Mersenne Twister 19937 generator with a standard distribution between 0-9 to make the holes at random. The Mersenne Twister is a more advanced randomness algorithm that passes statistical randomness tests and I don't think it can get more random then this.

You could do a weighted randomness, to make it less likely for holes to be close to each other, but that would strictly speaking be less random.

Also another thing to note is that just like the sequence of pieces that every player will get is the same, the sequence of holes in the garbage will also be the same for all players.

ghost commented 7 years ago

tbh, it's not that easy to downstack this garbage... at times.

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Olle Samuelsson notifications@github.com wrote:

It currently uses a Mersenne Twister 19937 generator with a standard distribution between 0-9 to make the holes at random. The Mersenne Twister is a more advanced randomness algorithm that passes statistical randomness tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister#Advantages and I don't think it can get more random then this.

You could do a weighted randomness, to make it less likely for holes to be close to each other, but that would strictly speaking be less random.

Also another thing to note is that just like the sequence of pieces that every player will get is the same, the sequence of holes in the garbage will also be the same for all players.

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jefgenowitsch commented 7 years ago

Good to know, thx!