wraggster
February 19th, 2014, 19:36
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/d85c423a4ed34721c64c9d787393796c/twitch-tetris2.jpg (http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/19/twitch-plays-pokemon-plays-tetris-as-reality-folds-in-on-itself/)
The tens of thousands of Twitch members who are participating in a crowd-sourced playthrough (http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/14/thousands-control-one-pokemon-master-on-twitch-simultaneously/) of Pokemon Red are also unknowingly taking part in an ongoing game of Tetris. Twitch Plays Pokemon Plays Tetris (http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_) captures input requests from the Twitch Plays Pokemon chat and repurposes them for the strangest, lowest-scoring game of Tetris you've likely seen.
Curated by Xkeeper (https://twitter.com/xkeepah), Twitch Plays Pokemon Plays Tetris features a modified version of Nintendo's 8-bit Tetris that gives players greater control over tetrimino placement...in theory. The mod adds a feature that sends falling pieces toward the top of the screen every time an "up" input is registered, adding to the chaos.
It's a very deliberately paced game of Tetris, in other words. Scores are low and completed lines are rare, but possible. Other Twitch Plays Pokemon-inspired bits of madness that have cropped up over the last week include Twitch PlaysQWOP (http://www.twitch.tv/probabilitygaming) and RNG Plays Pokemon (http://www.twitch.tv/rngplayspokemon), which uses a random number generator to decide input.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/19/twitch-plays-pokemon-plays-tetris-as-reality-folds-in-on-itself/
The tens of thousands of Twitch members who are participating in a crowd-sourced playthrough (http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/14/thousands-control-one-pokemon-master-on-twitch-simultaneously/) of Pokemon Red are also unknowingly taking part in an ongoing game of Tetris. Twitch Plays Pokemon Plays Tetris (http://www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_) captures input requests from the Twitch Plays Pokemon chat and repurposes them for the strangest, lowest-scoring game of Tetris you've likely seen.
Curated by Xkeeper (https://twitter.com/xkeepah), Twitch Plays Pokemon Plays Tetris features a modified version of Nintendo's 8-bit Tetris that gives players greater control over tetrimino placement...in theory. The mod adds a feature that sends falling pieces toward the top of the screen every time an "up" input is registered, adding to the chaos.
It's a very deliberately paced game of Tetris, in other words. Scores are low and completed lines are rare, but possible. Other Twitch Plays Pokemon-inspired bits of madness that have cropped up over the last week include Twitch PlaysQWOP (http://www.twitch.tv/probabilitygaming) and RNG Plays Pokemon (http://www.twitch.tv/rngplayspokemon), which uses a random number generator to decide input.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/19/twitch-plays-pokemon-plays-tetris-as-reality-folds-in-on-itself/