By Kieron Gillen on January 14th, 2010 at 9:55 am.
It’s another Simon Parkin Special! Well, strictly speaking it’s not, as someone else told me about it first, but I’d much rather credit the sensual Simon. It’s first person tetris. He says it’ll “make you sick in 20 seconds max”. YOU MAKE ME SICK IN TWENTY SECONDS MAX, Simon. Go play here.
EDIT: And because there’s some confusion, the link is dead for some people and not for others. I presume it’s something due to it being a new site and the DNS hasn’t sorted itself out yet but – y’know – I’m not a techy.
I lasted about 2 minutes, but I don’t want to play it ever again.
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@Kelron
Took the words right out of my mouth.
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This RPS update is brought to you by JustHost.com, your one-stop shop for all incorrectly entered domain names!
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Broken link? I’m redirected to a hosting provider.
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Either that’s not the right link or it is a very boring game.
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It appears the link is broken, leading me to a useless page.
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yeah, I managed about a minute before giving up at the horror of it all.
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Love it. NASA could use this to simulate what it’s like to goof off work, IN SPACE!
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Oh dear. I completed ONE row!
And lasted about two minutes.
Neither thank or curse Nuffle. You’ll get punished either way.
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Playing this allowed me to enjoy Tetris for the first time ever – disorientation was clearly the missing element!
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My eyes are now pointing in different directions…
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I find it funny how some people are getting it and some people aren’t and the people who don’t get it are presuming it’s my mistake.
KG
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firstpersontetris.com appears to resolve to a hosting page for a lot of people, mainly outside the UK. For some reason, http://www.firstpersontetris.com works fine.
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Alexander: I’ve worked your link in. If it reduces the problems, gotta be worth it.
I think you’re right, btw. As in, it’s a new site so it’s still propegating or whatever. But I also know nothing.
KG
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Kieron, I think it’s a case that people are aware something horrible’s going on, they’re aware you’re involved, and put two and two together. We’ve been hurt before, man.
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just got 43 lines – I am cooking!
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My eyes! Night mode is hilarious. Lovely.
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LINES: 069
SCORE: 016323
Pitiful. Once the speed picks up and you’ve made some mistakes it becomes very difficult to think fast enough.
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I don’t get it. You got my hopes up with the idea of a FPS Tetris, I hope this isn’t some ridiculously early April Fools joke, don’t make me come over there and poke you with a sharp stick.
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I appear to be one of the people not getting it. So um… the fact that the link doesn’t work is a joke… somehow?
Did I just lose my sense of humour over night, or is this a very obscure kind of joke? (Definitely not ruling out the first option, mind.)
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@Jonas
The link works fine for me. It should take you to a page with a flash version of Tetris.
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Sadly, as Alexander Norris says, it doesn’t. It takes me to a JustHost placeholder page, possibly because I am outside of the UK. As does the other link he posted.
Not sure what Kieron was on about :P
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If it’s a brand new site, it’s possible that the domain registration hasn’t propagated to your DNS yet.
Or something. I’m not a network engineer; I just repeat those words like a parrot.
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I am very much so not dizzy, though the disorientation made it a lot harder once it sped up.
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Got 10 lines and level 1, then my stomach exploded….
I googled first person tetris and found it that way…
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Link doesn’t work for me, and nor does the one offered in the comments…booo!
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Play in Night Mode. THAT is the experience.
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Not strictly first person, though I’d assume an actual first person Tetris would be too horrible for words.
This does get really disorientating once the speed picks up though, I misaligned blocks quite a lot due to the lurching rotation.
Edit: Also, yes, Night Mode is worth it just for the initial moment of puzzlement followed by grim realisation.
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I’ve played too many videogames. I suffered no nausea at all and little trouble with the controls. Planning was hard and I only made it to lvl3 before I made a mistake I couldn’t correct. After that I fell out pretty quick.
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LEVEL: 02
LINES: 028
SCORE: 002658
Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh!
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Seriously now, I haven’t found this off-putting much. Getting used to the perspective changes takes a bit of getting used to at first but after that I was quite fine until I kept making my usual Tetris mistakes.
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I went crosseyed :S
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Not what I was expecting when I click the link.
I thought it was going to be FPS controls, and a 3D environment, with a big old NES pad on the floor, and a TV playing Tetris, and you would have to look at the TV to see what was happening, then look down at the controller to interact with the game, but you could never see the controller and the screen at the same time.
This is funny too though.
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Everyone else is complaining that they never got line pieces. I played three games, and in each I got at least four line pieces in a row (seven in my first game).
All I wanted were a couple of bloody T-pieces, damn it. The Tetris God is cruel indeed.
No motion sickness or real disorientation from playing it that way, but I’m not too quick with shapes so I kept fucking up about 30 lines in once the speed goes up a bit.
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So, you’re the jerk who got all my I blocks.
It’s weird. This disorienting-ness was bad, but not getting the block I needed was my downfall.
Also, was it just me, or do you get a half second less of rotation than usual here? Threw me right off.
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It’s _seriously_ messed up that I found it a lot easier once I tried Night Mode, isn’t it?
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I got to level 4 on my first go….what really threw me off though was when the blocks changed colour the first time! I had gotten used to identifying them that way and I had trouble telling the difference between the two different kinds of L.
Fun little game, I liked to twist. Must be a nightmare for folk who get motion sick playing FPS games never mind this monster.
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Grrrrr at the title’s baffling misunderstanding of what first person actually is. Grrrr I say.
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Maybe it’s the fact I woke up at 4 or 5am after 3 hours sleep. Maybe it was that Chicken and Gravy pasty I had for breakfast. But I played for about 5 minutes an hour ago, and I’m still feeling ill.
Also, I saw every piece I seem to remember from normal Tetris.
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10 lines in night mode….Pretty cool concept, even though I feel slightly like I want to throw up..WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN ETC.
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You know…I like it.
I have to remember to try this while drunk this weekend.
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I suggest playing this while you can (I can’t try, at work). Unless it was somehow sanctioned by the owner’s of Tetris, this will be taken down quickly. The Tetris Company are well known for protecting their IP. This actually uses the name “Tetris” and it is a bit of a stretch to call it a parody (you have to prove that in court anyway). Maybe The Tetris Company will be cool for once since obviously no one will play this instead of normal Tetris; it is basically free advertising.
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This is actually excellent. I don’t know what people are complaining about, the changes in orientation are fairly easy to handle. It’s when it speeds up and you start making silly mistakes that it becomes difficult, and that way madness lies.
(ALSO: My CAPTCHA was 2PAK. What the?)
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On my second go:
LEVEL: 03
LINES: 035
SCORE: 004520
TOP SCORE: 004520
Strangely, I found this more enjoyable than standard Tetris.
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I did okay until I stopped playing. As soon as I looked away the whole room was spinning.
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Managed to make it to level 5. I think night mode might actually be easier, because you can visualize the board rotating around the piece and not get as confused about which direction you need to go.
Also, no one’s made the terrible joke, so I feel I must.
In First Person Tetris, block rotates you!
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Surely that should be, “IN SOVIET TETRIS, BL-”
…Oh. Right.
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LEVEL: 02
LINES: 027
SCORE: 003200
TOP SCORE: 003200
I’m fine playing it, but now I’ve stopped my eyes are trying to rotate.
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There were 3 possible choices if music (I counted them!) for this game and not one of them was Korobeiniki.
And now this article has at atleast 48 comments (I counted them!) and not one of them mentions the lack of Korobeiniki.
Tis a sad day.
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Which of the three types do you prefer, though? I like Type 2 music. It’s not Korobeiniki, but it’s the best of the lot I though.
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The Type 2 music in this was also the type 2 music in the original Tetris don’tchaknow.
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Oddly, I don’t suffer vertigo, except for when I have tinnitus and that sometimes makes me nearly fall over. But otherwise, I don’t. I can get on the most mind-bending rides, and get off as though I’d never been on it. >.> It’s a talent! Suffice it to say, I got quite a fair way in, and I noticed something rather hilarious.
The game totally destabilises! It might not on the computers of other people, but after prolonged play, for me, it did. This resulted in moments of hilarity, as the game switched between about 5 frames per second and Christ I’m behind, I need to cram as many frames as I can into one second so that my draw engine can keep up with the actual game engine, HERE GOES.
So I’d be lowering a long ‘un into place, and suddenly it’d slow to a crawl, and I’d have to steel myself as it’d drop at least one or two shapes within the next second, completely screwing up my efforts.
Funny, but not Tetris Friends.
<3 Tetris Friends.
Then again, I'm missing the point by mentioning Tetris Friends, but I'm doing it on purpose because more people need to be introduced to that.
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Ouch. Night Mode is evil.
LEVEL: 05
LINES: 052
SCORE: 016640
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VCR, lol.
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Incidentally, this is a lot more fun if you just hold down spacebar during the game.
Try it. Especially if the normal game made you sick.
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I’ve theory that Night Mode gives you a head ache as it’s just your brain growing new bits of itself in order to play it properly.
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In order to make the screen rotation less jarring, the pieces rotate painfully slowly. It makes the game even more difficult. Frustrating.
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This is simply brilliant! Thanks a lot for sharing Mr. Gillen.
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Level 2
24 lines
Then I somehow forgot that enter was drop, not rotate…
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This reminds me of , except less drug induced.
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Damn the lack of the edit button. That was supposed to read “This reminds me of tetripz, except less drug incuded”
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I thought this was going to be something akin to the awesome Blockout.
DISAPPOINTMENT
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That explains why I sucked so much at that!
I mean, I’m not great at Tetris, but I like to fancy myself at least average, and I couldn’t make 1 line here. Good to know it wasn’t just poor spatial reasoning.
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I do not know that this individual quite understands what “first person” means. Then again, calling it Rotationally Hurtling Nausea Tetris would have ruined the surprise.
I’m gonna go against the grain here and admit that I found this tremendously entertaining. There are only so many permutations of Tetris you can make before they (and the original game from which they inherit) become drab and sullen. This, on the other hand, is disorienting and panicky enough to make Tetris exciting for me again.
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Watching this guy play it might be fun:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1vrwy_progamer-tipp-tetris-world-record_fun
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Oohh, man. I get sick playing audiosurf for too long.. but this… oh man…
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I’m not having any problems looking at it, but the pieces take too long to turn, which renders a lot of normally acceptable piece maneuvering impossible.
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First time I see spam advertising an essay-writing service on a games site, that is.
Oh, don’t know if the Hive Mind caught this yesterday: deleting a spam post without deleting nested comments causes the nested comments to perpetually sink to the bottom of the comment page. So, best to delete the nested comments as well if you’re going to hit the spam post.
I’d've twittered this but it was a bit too long. Sorry.
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