N-Blox Reloaded...

Not exactly a post. [ Ergo, something better.]

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[Btw,  My hiatus is surprisingly, not due to a writer's block. This is your chance. Enjoy while it lasts...For be warned, Soon, I'll be back. With my regular doses of  textual - harassment. Phew, I can't be booked for that]
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My love for tetris has been documented pretty well over here. So I'll not kutch further.
I discovered N-Blox some days ago, when chappar , wanting to get some cheap highs, was looking at psychedelic visuals on this site. And sent it to me.
Turns out Paul Neave is a brilliant Flash designer, with a passion for Retro games. Kewl. And I found Tetris. Blissh.
The gameplay is superb[ Considering that there's not much scope for innovation]. But as it turns out, Neave is a bit of a N*gger [ Southpark fundaes]. With the sole intent of pissing off fans, he sets out and puts a score_reset which is called at the stroke of midnight. I could think of only a few possible excuses that he could have.

• Probably to save on diskspace of the scores.txt file. [Wtf]
• To give every newbie a chance to figure on the highscore board. Turns out they already do. Through  simple,stupid, "Injection" techniques. [Come on, Man you...]
• "It's my game."  " Respect Mah Authoritah"...[ Awesome ]

Well, the third reason seemed the most logical, and we laud his spunk n all that, but we didn't like it in principle. He could have at least given people the source code and allow us to tinker with it. But that's his choice and we respect that.

But, we did want the game.

So, The php whiz from college, and myself,  tweaked around the flash file for a while to send the scores to a different location. And the php to receive, process the scores at this remote location, and send back the results back to the flash file. No edits to the gameplay/graphics. Honest.

Did someone miss a beat? Never mind, Let me beat you again. 

Me n php? Ha ha...

Well, truth be told, he did both of those.  Great work dude, and btw, the Inci site rocks, as usual.

And me, with my stupendous Html skills, set up an oldschool website, which is approximately Web 0.2.

So, enjoy Nblox on the site shown below ( while it lasts), and u get to post ur highscore as well. 

So, without much ado, here's N-Blox Reloaded peoples...

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