Multiplayer Tetris Is Ten Years In The Making (And Counting)

Alexey Pajitnov, architect of Tetris, may be semi-retired these days, but he still brand to dabble in a bit of bold architecture from time to time. At the moment, for example, he's alive on multiplayer Tetris.

"We are alive on multiplayer versions for added than 10 years — I've been aggravating to architecture it. I should accept that we are not absolutely there yet," Pajitnov tells Gamasutra.

"It was absolutely a botheration with Tetris that... the bold is actual intense, you know? If you play on the top akin — and that's area you wish to play usually. So, you play on the bend of your abilities, in agreement of the acceleration and reaction, and everything. So, you affectionate of accept no academician assets to beam what the added humans are doing."

"That's the affectionate of abstinent abstract botheration which we charge to boldness with multiplayer Tetris."

If you apathetic it down, it takes abroad the agitated thrills that accomplish the bold great. If you leave the acceleration and mechanics as they are, it doesn't work. Sounds like a bedrock and a harder place, but Pajitnov is optimistic.

"...there are still actual able means to do it, so the adaptation we accept now is appealing good," he says. "I mean, if you forward the debris in the multiplayer to the added player, it affectionate of works."

"But unfortunately, my dream would be the game, if you could absolutely see what the added humans do and yield their gameplay and their accomplishment and their cachet in the bold absolutely in account. That's what the capital joy of a multiplayer bold is, in my opinion."

Multiplayer Tetris Is Ten Years In The Making (And Counting)