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| ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
− | [http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ 2048] is a popular browser-based game in which players must move tiles in a 4 by 4 grid with numbers on them. When two tiles of the same number touch they can be merged into one tile with a value of the two tiles combined. So when two 4-tiles touch and are merged they form one 8-tile. The player can move the tiles by pressing an arrow key (or swiping in a direction on the mobile version), which will move all the tiles in that direction. Every time the player makes such a move another tile will appear on a random cell. The goal of the game is to get a tile with the number 2048. | + | [http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ 2048] is a popular browser-based game in which players must move tiles with numbers on them. When two tiles of the same number touch they will merge into one tile with a value of the two tiles combined. So when two 4-tiles touch and are merged they form one 8-tile. The goal of the game is to get a tile with the number 2048. |
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− | In the comic the room number can be seen as 4 tiles with the values 8, 2, 2 and 4. If these occur in the game the player can merge the two 2-tiles into one 4-tile. This will then cause two 4-tiles to lie next to each other, so these can be merged into one 8-tile. Finally, the two 8-tiles can be merged into one 16-tile. | + | In the comic the room number can be seen as 4 tiles with the values 8, 2, 2 and 4. If these occur in the game the player can merge the two 2-tiles into one 4-tile. This will then cause two 4-tiles to lie next to eachother so these can be merged into one 8-tile. Finally the two 8-tiles can be merged into one 16-tile. |
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− | This can be done in the opposite direction as well.
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− | The title text refers to {{w|Tetris effect}}, which takes its name from the game {{w|Tetris}}. People who play Tetris for extended periods tend to imagine real-life objects (like skylines) as Tetris landscapes and pieces. [[Randall]], [http://s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/wootdesigncontestentries/fackoph/chicago_skyline_%28Tetris_Redux%29-q71p5a-s.jpg as many others], apparently got hooked on Tetris so much when it came out that, for 20 years, he would look at city skylines and see Tetris-like patterns in it. Similarly, he has now been hooked onto 2048 and notices number patterns that would be desirable to obtain during the game.
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| ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
− | :[A guy is walking and Cueball is following him.]
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− | :Guy: The talk is in room 8224.
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− | :Cueball: Ooh, nice.
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− | :Guy: What?
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− | :Cueball: ...Sorry. Nothing.
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− | :Great, now I'll spend the rest of my life noticing numbers that would make good 2048 combos.
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− | ==Trivia==
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− | *Comics [[724: Hell]] and [[888: Heaven]] also refer to Tetris.
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− | *There is another game named [http://newbrict.github.io/Fe26/ <nowiki>Fe[26]</nowiki>] that simulates fusion in a star to create elements, as described in [[1123: The Universal Label]]. It is "Created by Dimitar Dimitrov and Kevin O'Connor for ASTR-1960@RPI. Based on 2048 by Gabriele Cirulli. Based on 1024 by Veewo Studio and conceptually similar to Threes by Asher Vollmer."
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| {{comic discussion}} | | {{comic discussion}} |
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