In Tetris Beat’s standard Drop mode, players start by picking a music track, each of which has a specific visual backdrop made in collaboration with the musicians. There’s some amazing videos of people doing it.”Ĭlark’s team took that idea and made a very deliberate kind of game around it. “The game doesn’t reward you for doing that, but people play Tetris 99 where they try to hard drop in time to the beat. “I actually got really into these videos on YouTube of people playing Tetris games intentionally in time to music,” Lawrence tells Digital Trends.
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He recalls seeing a modded PAX build of Tetris Effect that allowed a pro player named Green Tea to specifically play along to the beat. More specifically, Clark visualized the idea after seeing how the Tetris community was interacting with music. Executive Producer Lawrence Clark says that quote was a guiding inspiration for the game. The latest game was born out of that experience. For me, Tetris is some song which you sing inside yourself and can’t stop.” Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov once described the sensation, saying “Playing is a very specific rhythmic and visual pleasure. While Tetris games let players drop pieces freely, there’s often a certain flow state that players can get into, subconsciously pushing them to play along to the music. Tetris Beat twists the tried-and-true tetromino puzzle formula by honing in on the game’s hidden rhythms. Its fresh mechanics are in dialogue with previous Tetris titles, reminding us of how much of the video game industry is built on collaborative iteration. What makes Tetris Beatspecial is the way it continues a game design conversation that’s been going on for decades.
It’s a light service game that’s giving long-time fans a good reason to keep coming back to the addictive puzzler. The game features 18 original songs at launch and plans to add one new track every week beginning in October. This time, the twist is that Tetris has been turned into a full-on rhythm game where players need to turn and drop pieces to the beat of music. The storied franchise has evolved once again with the release of Tetris Beat, a new Apple Arcade exclusive available today.
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