Chime: new commercial tetris alike game on steam

[herc]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/62100/

http://cdn.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/62100/ss_01d7bd7c4f5706d0f68e89810232278c964f5145.600x33 8.jpg?t=1283549714

[Billmaan]

It's a fun game and worth $5 (based on the X360 version, which came out a long while back) but don't buy it expecting deep mechanics. The scoring system is surely more simplistic than the designers intended, and the "bonus time" system is rather broken (to the point that a skilled player can play indefinitely on the easier stages).

Still, pentominoes are fun and the game's only $5. Just don't bother with score attack; that way lies madness.

[orz]

what would happen if someone commercially released a tetris clone, huh? what would happen? what would gay ttc do

[Caithness]

I seem to recall reading that Texmaster was sold commercially at one point. Who knows if that was accurate of if I even remember correctly, though.

[colour_thief]

what would happen if someone commercially released a tetris clone, huh? what would happen? what would gay ttc do

There was some DS game that included a Tetris ripoff, though I forget what it was called. I don't recall the game even being recalled from store shelves.

[Rosti LFC]

I thought the whole reason NDS:TGM ceased active development was because the dev found out that people had been selling it on flashcarts as a proper Tetris game.

[muf]

I thought the whole reason NDS:TGM ceased active development was because the dev found out that people had been selling it on flashcarts as a proper Tetris game.

colour_thief isn't talking about NDS:TGM. There's some random collection of "classic" games on a DS cart which includes an unlicensed Tetris.

[orz]

I thought the whole reason NDS:TGM ceased active development was because the dev found out that people had been selling it on flashcarts as a proper Tetris game.

it should be ported to windows bc it has rotozooming backgrounds

[Ai]

colour_thief isn't talking about NDS:TGM. There's some random collection of "classic" games on a DS cart which includes an unlicensed Tetris.

Game Hits! (http://ds.ign.com/objects/067/067027.html) or Gamehits (http://gbatemp.net/img/nds-boxart/static/gt5298.png) for the European release. I played the Chime demo on Xbox 360 a long time ago. I don't remember anything about it. ^^;

EDIT:

Best of Arcade Games DS (http://gbatemp.net/img/nds-boxart/static/gt4832.png) is the game muf was probably refering to. I noticed it earlier today in a game shop and it's only available in Eureope.

[TWF]

it should be ported to windows bc it has rotozooming backgrounds

rotozooming is really overrated

[tepples]

it should be ported to windows bc it has rotozooming backgrounds
We seem to be talking about a bunch of different Tetris clones:
You're thinking of Rotris (http://www.yarin.se/gba.html), a Tetris clone for GBA made for a 4K compo (not the identically named game for Roblox) and once sold under the name "Super Tetris Delux" (http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/showthread.html?t=1187). I'm thinking of TOD (http://www.pineight.com/tod/), a Tetris clone for GBA which, like Rotris, has a rotozooming background, except TOD copied Tetripz and Rotris copied Pufftris. Yes, this one was ported to PC (http://www.pineight.com/pc/#tod) before it was on GBA. Rosti is thinking of NDS TGM, a Tetris clone for DS that tried to clone TGM fairly accurately, including copyrighted block textures and UI graphics, and which may have been sold on cartridge by pirates. CT is thinking of Game Hits, a commercial DS release by Destineer including a Tetris clone.
As for what TTC would do about a commercially released Tetris clone, part of that depends on what you define as "commercially released". If it's on an app store, and it's a fairly faithful Tetris clone (at least to the extent that Tetris Worlds and NES Tetris are similar), TTC is likely to send a takedown notice, as it has for both iOS and Android app stores. (Don't expect app stores to honor counter-notices if the TOS lets them take an app down "for any reason or no reason".) If it's buried on a Linux distribution's install disc (as in the case of Quadrapassel or Emacs Tetris), I don't see TTC ever having taken action for copyright infringement even if the distro is sold on CheapBytes.

[muf]

We seem to be talking about a bunch of different Tetris clones:
You're thinking of Rotris (http://www.yarin.se/gba.html), a Tetris clone for GBA made for a 4K compo (not the identically named game for Roblox) and once sold under the name "Super Tetris Delux" (http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/showthread.html?t=1187).

Nope. Orz is talking about the Ti-imitation rotozooming (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjPfKR6wXjY&NR=1) of NDS:TGM. It's a pretty cool technical feat actually-- MeRaMaN (the author) couldn't load a large enough texture onto a quad to do hardware rotozooming, so it's all done in software. Trufax.

[TWF]

tp;dr

[Zaphod77]

people were selling pirate carts with NDS_TGM on it, as I recall, and that's why it got taken down.