Comments on: Block Party: Tetris Friends

By: PetitPrince

PetitPrince — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:36:46 +0000

PS: There actually is an authentic, monochrome Gameboy version!
Not quite authentic, actually. Apart from purely esthetic issue (the blocks and the music are not totally accurate), there are totally unauthentic gameplay differences: first, the playfield is 18×10 blocks where Tetris Gameboy is 19×10, then the rotations (that is, the way the tetraminos rotate) are more SRS-ish (= like Tetris DS or the other modes of Tetris friends or nearly any other Tetris in the 2000′s) and finally, there is lock delay (you can move a tetramino after it has landed).

to provide a place for high-end tournaments, with professional players (I know) competing

I doubt. How can you even think about a tournament when you don’t have any means to do a 1 on 1 match ?

Anyway, I’d recommend Blockbox instead of Tetris Friends. It is an indie (read: not approved by The Tetris Company – the creator asked them the permission to publish that game, but they never answered…) Tetris game, featuring an equally silly name, gameplay elements from both the official Tetris and the Tetris the Grand Master series (an hardcore and not less addictive variant of Tetris – I’m sure you have seen that youtube video of invisible Tetris) for both mono and multiplayer, and less sucky matchmaking system.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:17:59 +0000

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By: FernandoDANTE

FernandoDANTE — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:40:56 +0000

THANKS FOR GETTING ME ADDICTED, YOU JERKS!!!

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:39:26 +0000

@pb facebook

By: pb

pb — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:10:32 +0000

It is too bad that there isnt an option to challenge your friends…

By: Wisq

Wisq — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:58:36 +0000

All this instant-dropping and ghost images of where your block will land are killing Tetris, dag nabbit!

As a Tetris veteran, I demand a return to the days when you had to double-time it all the way down the board if you wanted to get to the bottom sometime this week, and where knowing where your block would land ahead of time was a privilege of experience and not a bleedin’ crutch for babies who fail at figuring out how to fit Legos together!

That said, it looks pretty. :)

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:27:44 +0000

I once programmed a genetic algorithm which learned to play tetris. I wonder if i could program a bot for this.

By: Cooper

Cooper — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:00:59 +0000

Bloody hell. 5 player sprint is pure crack after rank 10.

By: Polysynchronicity

Polysynchronicity — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:39:58 +0000

Also – where’s my 20G mode? Bunch of pansies.

By: Polysynchronicity

Polysynchronicity — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:39:18 +0000

That explains a lot.

Also, went from Rank 1 to Rank 12 without losing a single game. Guess all that time with Heboris paid off.

By: reaper47

reaper47 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:30:52 +0000

What’s frustrating about online leaderboards are the top 30: all 999,999 points in classic mode. *sigh*

And I always was so proud of my 300,000 points on the original Gameboy.

By: MacBeth

MacBeth — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:01:19 +0000

10th Rank on 5 player sprint is where it gets challenging. I was undefeated until then…