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GIF replays

Your whole game, as a GIF

Screenshots prove a score. Replays prove a game. Block 89 records every session and turns it into an animated GIF timelapse: your whole run, from empty grid to game over, compressed into at most fifteen seconds.

How to share a replay

  1. Play. No setup: recording is automatic and costs nothing while you play.
  2. At game over, tap Share Replay.
  3. The GIF is generated on the spot and goes wherever you point the share sheet: chats, social, camera roll. In the browser it downloads as a file.

What is in the file

The replay shows the grid with each piece landing, plus the live score, time and level strip. It loops forever, plays everywhere a GIF plays (which is everywhere), and carries the #Block89 tag when shared from the apps.

The 1989 detail

The encoder is written from scratch inside the game, and it writes GIF89a: the animated-GIF specification from 1989. No cloud renders your replay; your device does, in the file format of the game's namesake year. The period correctness goes all the way down.

Replays are also the best coaching tool you have: scrub your losses and find the one greedy move that started the collapse.

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