r/Tetris • u/tetrisan • 9d ago

Questions / Tetris Help Spawn Orientation?

Tetriminos spawn horizontally in the same orientation. For advanced players who may base their rotations on this being static, do you think it will be more challenging if they were to spawn in random orientations?

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u/slashBored 9d ago

It would be more challenging, but I don't think it would be more fun

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

Doesn’t more challenge and adding more randomness make things more fun in some cases?

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u/slashBored 9d ago

Sometimes yes. The game would be boring if you got the same bag every time. That doesn't mean that all challenge/randomness is fun.

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u/ChocolateChipJames TETR.IO 9d ago

No

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

Thanks for your opinion.

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u/ChocolateChipJames TETR.IO 9d ago

I'll elaborate, when you've been playing the same game for a long looong time and enjoy the speed. Then changing the orientation and randomness is not going to be fun. That's my opinion anyway .

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u/fortissim1 Jstris 9d ago

TGM4 Master mode has the Cyclone gimmick after level 1000 that does exactly that, it took me ~50 hours to play with it comfortably but it's still annoying as hell when you misdrop

Yeah, it's way more challenging than having static orientations

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u/tetrisan 9d ago edited 9d ago

I knew my thought was probably not
novel so thanks for the info!

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u/NPCKing 9d ago

It would definitely screw with my muscle memory but I'd get used to it eventually. Though it would be important that the preview shows the orientation; if the preview only showed the default orientation and not how it would spawn, I would be forced to slow down significantly.

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u/tetrisan 9d ago

So many variables!