Tetower Demo

Tetower takes the old concept of the Tetris game and pushes it to new limits if you can excuse the pun.

Some of you who are reading this might be a little too young to know about Tetris, a game concept that was ubiquitous 25 years ago. It was impossible not to see it adapted in various forms. It was the kind of gameplay that people took for granted, until a very bad man, Alexey Pajitnov, managed to snatch the royalties for any game using this concept.

To be fair, Alexey Pajitnov was the one who invented Tetris, which also happens to be a Russian word. After Alexey Pajitnov had started to get money from any Tetris game, people stopped making them in large numbers. As you can see, there are very few Tetris-like games right now into the wild, and for good reason.

Tetower could manage to get passed the watchful eyes fo Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, because it only uses the pieces from Tetris, and not the concept itself. It might also be a game too small to elicit the attention for the people looking for Tetris royalties.

Tetower is not the kind of game that you can hope to win. You can only hope to delay the inevitable, which is the collapse of the tower. To back up a little bit. The goal of the Tetower is to arrange the pieces in such a way so that the tower doesn’t collapse.

You can get rid of completed line, and you can’t rotate the pieces. What’s makes this game even more difficult is the fact that pieces have mass, and you need to make sure that they land gently. It’s a difficult task and demands the full attention of the player.

Tetower is built on the Unity engine, so it looks fairly good. The main feature that Tetower needs from Unity is the physics engine, and that’s covered very well. The biggest problem with the game is that it lack diversity, but since this is only a demo we can only hope that the finished product will more complex.