The sinusoidal tetris

Let’s play Tetris, but with a twist. No geometrical figures will fall from the sky. Instead, you control a sinusoid, defined by: $f(x)=A*sin(\omega x + \varphi)$:

Free suggestions in the beginning. If you follow all of them, you win.

Turn-Based Mode (the sinusoid doesn’t drop automatically)

Controls

• To increase the angular frequency, $\omega$, press: s;
• To decrease the angular frequency, $\omega$, press: x;
• To increase the amplitude, $A$, press: a;
• To decrease the amplitude, $A$, press: z;
• To increase the phase: $\varphi$, press: q;
• To decrease the phase: $\varphi$, press: w;
• To drop the sinusoid, press p;

To win the game, you need to reduce the signal as close to zero as possible. It’s hard but not impossible. There’s a current threshold of unit * 0.3. Surviving is not winning. The Path of the Alternating Phases is boredom.

You lose if the original signal spikes outside the game buffer (canvas).

A professional player turns off the suggestions, now enabled by default. If you are a savant, you can compute the Fourier Series Coefficients in your head. Cancel that noise!

To better understand what is happening, check out this first article of a series.

The game was developed using p5js.

The source code (here) is not something I am particularly proud of.

Some discussion from around the web:

• Hacker News
• Lobste.rs
• Museum Of Screens
• hackaday - tetris goes full circle
• microsiervos

^{This game is a joke I put together during a weekend. I’m sorry for the graphics.}