Chapter 20: [Tetris]
[Tetris]
In Chen Yize's previous life, this game was undoubtedly one of the best early video games.
The concept of this game came from a guy named Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian-born American man.
At that time, Pajitnov recalled the memory of his childhood when he was playing 'pentominoes,' a puzzle game consisting of 12 distinctive pieces, each made from 5 squares.
However, he didn't want to use the pentominoes to develop his game because he thought they would make it needlessly complicated.
So, he chose to use seven distinctive pieces, each made from 4 squares, called 'tetrominoes' instead.
Eventually, this game became the first playable version of [Tetris], which he named the game by combining the words 'tetra' (meaning 'four') and 'tennis' (Pajitnov's favorite sport).
Later, several versions of [Tetris] were released, one after another.
And this game eventually became available on various platforms.
In the end, Guinness World Records even recognized [Tetris] as the most ported video game in history.
And over time, this game also became one of the best-selling video games of all time.
The specific reason for all of these, Chen Yize didn't know.
All he knew was 'how this game had come into being' and 'what kind of achievements it had achieved.'
And all he cared about at this moment was 'how to develop this game.'
That's right. Back to the present, Chen Yize now only pondered.
'How to develop it?'
At this moment, Chen Yize didn't know how to develop it specifically.
Because in his previous life, several versions of [Tetris] had been released.
So, should he develop it based on the first version? So, he could give his full respect to the original designer of this game, Alexey Pajitnov.
Or should he develop it based on another version? If so, which one?
For him, as far as he could remember, each version of [Tetris] had both advantages and disadvantages.
Some might add another mode to the game, while some might change the game graphics or change the game music.
Overall, he didn't know how he should develop it based on these several versions. There were too many ideas that he wanted to put into use, making it hard for him to choose.
It's hard for him to choose...
Which idea should be brought out first for the first version of the game?
Which idea should be brought out later for future updates?
And which idea should never have been used in the first place?
Chen Yize still couldn't decide which ideas to bring out first, but he had already finished the 'drawings.'
The things Chen Yize drew on his computer were nothing else but the seven kinds of 'tetrominoes.'
While some people in his previous life might also use 'tetraminoes' or 'tetriminoes' to call them, Chen Yize preferred to call them 'blocks.'
And although Chen Yize had never studied art, with the help of the drawing software he found, it became a simple matter for him to draw these blocks.
Chen Yize first drew four similar squares and shaped them into the seven different kinds of blocks in [Tetris].
Then, he used the rainbow's colors to paint these blocks, one color for each one.
Next, it was time for him to draw the background of the game known as the field.
For the field, Chen Yize didn't think much about it and made it entirely black.
As for the size of the field, Chen Yize made it similar to that of his previous life, which was the size of ten 'squares' horizontally and twenty 'squares' vertically.
Looking at the 'masterpieces' he had drawn, Chen Yize smiled with satisfaction.
Now it was time for him to do programming...
"Umm... Excuse me."
Just when Chen Yize was about to do the programming, there was a voice from his side that interrupted him.
The voice that interrupted him came from Sun Qiang, a programmer who had joined the Xinyi company not long ago, he should have guessed.
When Chen Yize first met Sun Qiang in the company, the first thought that came into his mind was...
'Help! Someone broke into the Xinyi company!'
At that time, the first thing Chen Yize saw when he entered the office was Sun Qiang, who had a particularly huge body and looked very intimidating.
For a moment, Chen Yize instinctively stepped back, intending to find a weapon.
If it hadn't been for Li Xinyi to show up and calm things down, he would have already hit this guy on the head with the thing he found.
However, Chen Yize couldn't be blamed for this because those powerful muscles, which were clearly visible through this guy's clothes, made it hard for him not to regard this guy as a threat.
Looking at how 'muscular' this guy was now, Chen Yize 'sighed' in his heart.
After getting to know each other for a while, Chen Yize still couldn't get used to this guy being around.
He couldn't have imagined it before, having this kind of powerful guy being around in the office as a programmer.
With how Sun Qiang looked on the outside, he wondered why this guy didn't go to be a soldier and came to be a programmer here.
Maybe, he should ask him later?
Shaking his head and forgetting about it, now Sun Qiang was another colleague of his. So, it didn't matter to him what kind of past experiences this guy had.
Now, he should focus on why Sun Qiang called him first and tried to communicate with each other as a colleague, although he had always felt somewhat awkward when talking to this 'powerful' guy.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Yize turned to look at Sun Qiang and asked.
"About [Pong]... I know you want to make the ball capable of bouncing back and forth between two paddles controlled by the players. And we have already finished making the simple version of it. But I still couldn't figure it out. Why do you want us to develop this... boring thing?"
"Boring? Let me see."
Sun Qiang brought Chen Yize to the computer they had used to let him see it. The thing they had developed together.
When Chen Yize was in front of the computer, he could see through the gap between Zhou Wei and another new programmer of the company, Lu Ming, that they were 'playing' [Pong] together.
Lu Ming was another programmer who had recently joined the Xinyi company.
Unlike Sun Qiang, in Chen Yize's impression, Lu Ming was and had always been a nerd.
For his programming skill, Lu Ming was the only person he knew who might have a chance to compete with Li Xinyi in the company.
But in terms of social skills, this guy lacked a lot.
So far, he had never heard Lu Ming speak much, and everyone in the company eventually regarded the time when this guy took the initiative to talk as a 'rare' event.
Anyway, it didn't matter.
For now, all that mattered was to look at the screen and check their 'homework.'
Looking at the screen for a while, he had already noticed some of its problems.
And for these problems, Chen Yize could only sigh in his heart and murmur.
"It's not the problem of the game itself. It's more of the problem from the lack of creativity."
Unlike the ball in the original [Pong] in his previous life, which would accelerate the longer it remained in play.
And the players could always control the angle of the ball's return based on the position in which the ball hit the paddle.
Looking at the screen, all Chen Yize could see was the ball that had always bounced back and forth under the laws of physics, whether its constant speed or the reflective angle of the ball.
When Chen Yize presented to everyone the idea of developing [Pong], he 'intentionally' didn't mention these two things about the game.
Chen Yize wanted to test if others could use their creativity and make a better game based on their ideas.
But it seemed... he had forgotten to tell everyone that this developing task was also a 'test' for them.
"Creativity?"
Zhou Wei, as the person closest to Chen Yize at this moment, although what Chen Yize 'whispered' was hard to hear, he still heard it.
"Nothing."
Chen Yize waved his hand, signaling everyone to ignore what he and Zhou Wei had said before he 'intentionally' skipped the previous topic.
And so, Chen Yize asked everyone to use their creativity to the fullest and claimed it to be a test for them, hoping they could make the game better based on what they originally developed.
When Sun Qiang and Lu Ming heard it, they 'seemed' to fall into deep thought.
And when Zhou Wei heard it, he only revealed a bitter smile.
Zhou Wei, who had once tried to enter the industry as an app developer, had also tried to be 'creative' once, but because he wasn't 'creative' enough, he could only end his dream in failure.
So when Chen Yize asked him to be 'creative,' he thought... he couldn't do it.
Yet, just when he was about to push this 'creativity' matter to his other two colleagues, someone patted him on the shoulder.
The one who had patted his shoulder was Chen Yize, and he only said some 'encouraging' words to him.
"Come on!"
Yet, he wouldn't have known that what Chen Yize thought at this moment was...
'Come on, Zhou Wei!
'You're the only 'normal' colleagues I have.
'Those two guys were simply too 'special,' as I still couldn't get used to any of them.
'So, as the only two 'normal' guys in the company currently, we must rely on each other as much as possible.'
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polarfox369 Author: So, who wants to introduce yourself first?
Sun Qiang: Hello, I'm Sun Qiang.
Lu Ming: ... Lu Ming.
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