BeeTris 🐝 Thank You, Beta Testers Wanted!

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This bee owes a round of thanks β€” and wants more hands on deck. 🍯

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πŸ™ To everyone who left feedback

I love you!

Since the last update, BeeTris has gotten noticeably better because people actually took the time to poke at it and say something:

  • deanliu@deanliu, the original creator of this game's concept β€” for the honest, direct feedback on branding and analytics that pushed this project to grow its own identity properly, and for the Apache 2.0 license that made building on the idea possible in the first place.

  • acgalarza@acgalarza β€” for the detailed bug report on rotation controls going unresponsive once the board got fast and cluttered. That's now fixed (v0.11.1): rotation kicks try more positions, and a blocked rotation now gives clear audio feedback instead of silently doing nothing.

  • Everyone who played, clicked around, and reported something that felt off, even in a quick comment. Every one of those made it into a fix.

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🎨 What's new: a proper honey/hive look

The whole interface got a visual overhaul β€” warm amber tones instead of a leftover color from the original fork, a honeycomb pattern woven into the background, hexagon-shaped buttons and panels throughout, and a little flower-meadow-with-mascot touch near the title. It's the same game underneath, but now it actually looks like it belongs to a bee.

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Gameplay in the new theme β€” hexagon action buttons, honeycomb texture in the background, and the usual chaos of HIVE tokens and chain events falling on your board.

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πŸ”§ Rotation, actually fixed

That bug acgalarza@acgalarza reported β€” rotation going silent once the stack got tall and the pace picked up β€” turned out to be a real gap in how the game tried to fit a rotated piece into tight spaces. v0.11.1 widens the set of positions it tries before giving up, and when a rotation truly has no room, you now get a clear error sound instead of nothing happening at all. No more wondering if your keyboard stopped working.

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πŸ† Leaderboard, filling out

The Hive-verified global leaderboard now has daily, weekly, and all-time views, pagination for when it gets crowded, and shows your own personal rank even when you're off the visible page.

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The Records tab: your own runs on this device, plus the live global leaderboard with Daily/Weekly/All-time filters.

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πŸ“– New or returning? Check the Rules and Controls tabs

Everything you need to actually understand what's falling on your board β€” HIVE tokens, the worker bee, the flag bomb, the Consensus Seal β€” lives in one swipeable Rules tab, no wiki required.

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The Rules tab, explaining each special piece and token in plain language.

And every key, on desktop or phone, is laid out in the Controls tab β€” no guessing which button does what.

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The Controls tab: full keyboard reference, with a note that phone players use the on-screen deck instead.

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πŸ§ͺ Beta testers wanted!

BeeTris is still beta β€” and it needs more people trying to break it. If you:

  • Notice a control that feels off

  • Hit a visual glitch on your device/browser

  • Have an idea for a piece, mode, or mechanic

  • Just want to see how high you can stack

...this is your invitation. Comment here, open a GitHub issue, or just play and tell this bee what broke. 🐝

πŸ‘‰ hiveb3.github.io/hive-block-producer

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