[redhal]

Nice to see some Tetris news here! I've been a little obsessed lately with Tetr.io. For those who don't know it, it's a version of tetris where you can play against other players and send them pieces when, for example, you do a tetris or a combo. It's pretty impressive to watch the competitions : https://youtu.be/A4SFWfXZsks

[nope96]

Found out about Tetr.io from this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728892

Instantly got addicted, and I was amazed to see how good everyone is. 14 year old me with my gameboy would have been stunned at how fast and crazy modern Tetris is. And multi-national! Love it, but had to give it up after a few months because it seemed like it would/or was causing my longstanding RSI to come back.

[herman_toothrot]

Pretty cool. Anyone remember TetriNET from the 90s? Similar concept, except there were special pieces mixed in that you could use on opponents or yourself (add line, clear line, quake, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TetriNET

[cjbprime]

Yup! I remember the Debian developers would often play it together, I suppose because it was one of a small number of exciting open source multiplayer games which worked on Linux.

[contingencies]

IMHO when people discuss networked Tetris, it's now the reference implementation.

[EddySchauHai]

There’s a battle royale version of Tetris on the switch that sounds very similar - you can alter your settings of who you attack too, targeting those who attacked you, those in the lead, etc… I never won but got top 3 a couple times :)

[bcherny]

Ah, sounds similar to PuzzleFighter, an older Japanese game.