All great games are based on blocks, fromTetris,throughBlokustoMinecraft.
Tetris remains a favourite time waster for many, but for block lovers looking for a greater challenge, look beyond the square.
Anupdateto Galois (notnamedaftertheFrench word for ‘Welsh’, but after Évariste Galois, a French mathematician and one of the founders of ‘group theory’) is an opportunity to once more look beyond the conventionalblock. Galois enablesachoicebetween regular blocks, three-dimensional shapes, hexagons and triangles. The latter provides a particularly pleasing set of shapes, reminiscent of tangram puzzles.
Installation is easy from source, thanks to fairly minimal dependencies, and since the developer, Gerardo Ballabio, provides a deb package (as well as a Windows executable), Ubuntu and Mint users don’t even need to compile. On an Ubuntu Trusty box, we installed libxml++2.6-2 and ignored warnings about the…
