Tetris Exhibition - "Playing Forever" Technique (Revisited)
0It's been about 6 months since I've uploaded a video, or even played Tetris for that matter. I really didn't want to stop playing, but moving across the country and changing my whole life kinda got in the way of the things I've wanted to have time for :D.
This is a great way to get back to playing and posting videos because it's a fresh perspective on something I spent quite a bit of time with in the past. It also gives me a chance to get back to playing without bogging myself down with some majorly difficult pattern; I'm a little rusty after so many months away, lol.
The basic premise of this video is to show people who are interested in this technique that you have to be flexible, look ahead, and hope that you make good choices that continue to work well with the randomizer. The pattern is generally easy to repeat forever, with the exception of the three main transitions: 1. Where you change the function of the L and J, 2. Where you change the sides that you stack on, and 3. Where you finish the 140-piece run and begin again.
This game had a few spots where I had to make some unique decisions that I feel make this exhibition a little more interesting to watch since it's not repetitive "canned" runs. It also taught me that there are going to be times where you absolutely must deviate from the pattern slightly in order to make it keep working (particularly where I had to strategically place an L, J and I to finish the sequence).
That's enough rambling from me :D. I'll have better videos in the months to come ;).
The game I used to build this pattern is an open-source project called Nullpomino:
http://code.google.com/p/nullpomino/
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