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history 4/6 rolls? owned by TTC since TGM. weighted unequal probabiliies? owned by TTC since tetris worlds. initial spawn orientation? the good ones are owned by TTC, and the other three possibilities are useless. Muutiplayer wit htetris items? Owned by TTC (HANGAME and Tetris Kiwimemichi) Scoring for t-spins? owned by TTC.

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(this is the real reason that TTC was so willing to license it). Cascade gravity? Owned by TTC since Tetris Worlds. Another issue is the 'Borg clause' in the tetris guideline, which state that every tetris variation used in a guideline game is owned by TTC. i think everyone here agrees that TGM1 and GB Tetris are very different games. Within these simple constraints, there is room for a lot of expression. so 4 and 8 are right out, and 6 doesn't leave much room to work with.

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4) the field must have an even width, to prevent a series of squares from ending the game, while it needs to be not a multiple of 4 to make S and Z difficult to handle. 3) pieces less than 4 long make the game way too easy (kids tetris), and pieces longer than 4 make the game too difficult and random, so the seven unique tetrominos are the ideal pieces to use for a falling block game. It's obvious to anyone who's actually analysed the game that a lot of stuff is scenes a faire. I do believe that XIO case was not very well argued. So in 2013, what puzzlers other than Tetris do you enjoy? If Hard Drop can build a community of fans of those games, I might return to Hard Drop. I began to brainstorm what these games have in common. Mario, Kirby's Avalanche/Puyo Pop, SameGame, Zoop, Pac-Attack, Panel de Pon/Puzzle League, Baku Baku/Puzzle Fighter II, Lumines, and the like. This leaves block puzzle games where skills aren't expected to transfer from Tetris, such as Klax, Columns, Blockout, Dr.

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I especially didn't want to support somebody who has expressed a belief that free software destroys the market. I was attracted by the sport aspect and left the community once it became clear that that wasn't going to happen. Pajitnov wasn't entirely serious about wanting the game to become an internationally competitive sport. After considering for a moment why I even continued to play, I realized that TTC's business model made it clear that Mr. The depth of some strategy articles in Hard Drop Wiki bears witness to this. If a developer were to change the piece set and field size to work around this, the player's skills would not transfer. As I understand the ruling, certain tropes of block puzzle games were deemed unprotectable processes, but the use of the seven one-sided figures made of four squares was exclusively TTC's. In June 2012, Xio lost in court, and I withdrew certain games from my web site. My participation dwindled as I developed Concentration Room, Thwaite, and Zap Ruder for NES, and lately I've been working on Wrecking Ball Boy.

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I didn't really have a place to discuss my next project, a PC game with the same rules as Klax that can be played with a Guitar Hero controller, because apparently the nineties were over and no one there liked Klax. Also in May 2009, caffeine shut down TC.com and the community splintered into TC.net and Hard Drop. In May 2009, when enforcement of exclusive rights became more aggressive, I discontinued development of Lockjaw and LJ65 and began developing something different. There were three key incidents, two of which happened at about the same time.

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