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On fdroid the best I could find was Blockinger which was last updated 9 years ago. It seems to work fine on my phone, but I do wonder if there are any newer projects or improved forks that I can use. Thanks!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, what exactly do you want to improve and maintain in tetris? Isn't that kind of solved problem?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The UI of Blockinger leaves a lot to be desired. The ability to swipe to interact would be a huge improvement over the buttons taking up half the screen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I personally think that tetris without tactile buttons is not fun. But everyone's different, I guess.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Virtual buttons on a touch screen just feels like an artifact of an earlier generation of phone games. I have friends that play a lot of Tetris on mobile and all of their modern non-foss tetris games use swipe controls.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Okay, I didn't think of swipe controls. Yeah, that'd be feasible. Anything where you don't have to look at your fingers is good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah that would be great. I tried developing my own Tetris clone for a bit but lost interest too fast

[โ€“] august_senpai 2 points 2 years ago

https://github.com/MrStahlfelge/lightblocks The best Tetris game on Android IMO. Disclaimer: some assets are OSS, not FOSS.

[โ€“] DillingerEscPlan 1 points 2 years ago

I have one on my phone that was installed and forgotten about. It is called Techmino, and I can only assume it is FOSS if I downloaded it. Made by 26-F studio. Github: https://github.com/26F-Studio/Techmino

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago