Today I have come across a nice Tetris game Culitrs written in Java. It is based on a LWJGL library – a Java framework for game development. The game is free and looks pretty cool, nice visuals. There is only one thing – you cannot play the game.

This “cool” effect shows the transparent block at the bottom of the game field:

So you know where the block will be when you hit the ‘down’ button.

Unfortunately, the game is unplayable with this ‘cool’ effect. It distracts you and you just do not feel the field. This happens very often. The developers add something ‘cool’, just because it looked cool to them or required some significant development time. However, it adds no value or kills the product (like in this case).

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