Though discussing at length how I personally feel the basic design of Tetris is a perfectly valid means of reducing anxiety would be fun, I’ve always felt I’m better suited to writing opinions and observation rather than research. While I have learned less stimulative and more natural methods of mindfulness, I can still use Tetris as a way of relieving stress or winding down for the day, as I become focused primarily on building walls and clearing lines, rather than the daily stresses plowing through my head. To me, it is a form of mindfulness which fills a role that common practices have traditionally failed in. There’s something therapeutic about aligning the pieces as neatly as I can only to watch them clear out when I’m dealt the “I” block. Where I found most of my love for the game, however, was through a sense of relaxation I could never achieve prior. ![]() If you want to dive down the rabbit hole that is competitive Tetris, I highly recommend researching footage of the Classic Tetris World Championships, simply to see how deep this game truly runs. The best Tetris players will be able to build perfect walls as the pieces fall at high speeds, but for an untrained mind it can be quite difficult to maintain a clean structure, especially at higher speeds. However, if you consistently fail to fill out these horizontal lines, the wall will eventually fill up the screen, resulting in a game over. If you fill out an entire line horizontally that line is then cleared, allowing you to continue building. The concept is simple: The player is randomly given a set of four blocks condensed into a single mass in some pattern which they must build into a wall. That isn’t to say I had never played the game until a mere few months ago, but I only just began to dig deeply into the true intricacy of the game. If you actually like the EA official version of Tetris, you can now grab it off the Android market for $1.99.I discovered Tetris recently. It seems as though this DMCA notice was nothing more then a move to eliminate, whether right or not, the competition before their game was placed on the market. So is it a surprise we see the actual Tetris game now, after 2 years and a DMCA notice, available for purchase on the Android market? Keep in mind that the clones were usually a lot better then the actual official game. While some deserving of this action for being silly enough to actually use the name Tetris in the game’s title, others were just grouped into the mix for having ‘similar gameplay’. Now as everyone probably remembers that it wasn’t too long ago that EA dropped a DMCA notice on Google’s doorstep effectively making them take down 36 Tetris clones from the Android market. ![]() The official version of the game has been available since Android’s release it was only available for purchase on outside market websites like Mobihand. ![]() While attempting to flash my Nexus One back to Android 2.1 for some development testing I noticed that the crew over at AndroidSpin have posted that the Official Tetris game by EA is now available on the Android market.
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