The world’s best-selling game ever consists of a very simple shape – squares – side by side. When 4 squares come together in I shape, O shape, L shape, S and T shape, they turn into tetrominos.
The “Tetris” game also emerges in an effort to properly place the tetrominos coming towards you. It’s like a tennis game played with four squares. The name already comes from here. The combination of the words “tetra” meaning “4” and “tennis”. Keep in mind when designing: Combine two different things together like never before to create something new.
This game was a Soviet Union property when it appeared in 1984. Because Alexey Pajitnov, a computer programmer working at the Moscow Soviet Academy of Science, developed this game during business hours and was a civil servant at the time. His goal was to test new hardware, so he thought of turning the puzzles he was trying to solve into a computer program when he was young. Yes, Tetris’ ancestor is such games. This, Katamino.There are various pentomino puzzles like this one. You are trying to make a rectangle using different shapes. Alexey had to simplify the shapes while translating this into a computer program. Because he developed the software The Electronika 60 computer namedwas so primitive compared to today’s computers that it had to use letters to create tetromino blocks. Keep this in mind when designing. Limited opportunities stimulate creativity. I’m not just talking about graphic design or game design. Do not pursue unlimited possibilities when developing something new, a project, a product. On the contrary, think about how I can use what you have in the most efficient way.
Alexey did this. He simplified the Pentomino puzzles. He transformed the 12-piece puzzle consisting of 5 squares into a 7-piece game consisting of 4 squares. Developing something doesn’t just mean adding new things to it. You can also improve by removing something from it. Artists do this too. , “I throw the excess of marble, there is a statue left.” Remember Michelangelo, who said You can also design by reducing things.
This is how the first version of the Tetris game appeared. It was no different from the traditional puzzle version at the beginning. Alexey called this version “genetic engineering”. But both her name and herself continued to work on it because it felt a bit boring to her. He decided to make the rectangle vertical and drop the shapes down. But this time a new problem arose. The falling parts quickly filled the screen. Design is problem solving. Alexey solved this problem by deleting the lines that were completely filled. Now the game is not ending easily, making it one of the most popular games in the world. It is also one of the most addictive games.
“One of the first studies on this phenomenon took place in Harvard Medical School in 2000. The participants played this game 7 hours a day for three days. 63%, almost two thirds said they saw shapes hours after leaving the game. Especially when falling asleep. The researchers gave this phenomenon a name: Tetris Effect. ”
Although this is a Playstation version of Tetris publicity Although theis true, the content Tetris causes some kind of addiction. Clinical psychologist Vladimir Pokhilko has this addiction in three ways explains:
While playing the game, your brain makes a decision and immediately sees the result of it. Placing the shapes in place creates a new sense of satisfaction, albeit very small. These little gratifications are repeated every few seconds.
On the other hand, your brain is challenged to fill them as incomplete gaps are formed.
After playing for a few hours, the first two activities are automated. Doing the same thing over and over turns into a habit. In other words, to repeatmotivation …
the University of California conducted a The research revealedthat playing Tetris initially increased glucose metabolic rate (GMR) values in the brain, but after a few weeks these values returned to normal. What does it mean? Tetris trains us to stop using inefficient parts of our brain. Even the same research has found that the best Tetris players have the lowest GMR value.
Speaking of the best Tetris players take Let’sa look at this now. You are watching the Classic Tetris World Championship in 2018. The person on the right is Jonas 7 times World Champion. The person on the left is a 16-year-old teenager, Joseph. He passed to the 26th level with 849920 points on the right. The score on the left reached the 26th level, though the score was lower immediately. The arrival speed of tetrominos at these levels requires a very large concentration. If you cannot clean the lines below, your screen may suddenly become full, and Jonas, who is 7 times world champion, loses this time. Now everyone’s attention is in Joseph, whose name is just beginning to be heard in the world of Tetris. But I still want you to focus on the face of the world champion who lost this time. This facial expression does not belong to a loser. Facial expression of someone who sincerely enjoys the success of his opponent and does not forget that his experiences are just a game. We call this maturity. Perhaps the Tetris game doesn’t just lower GMR values in the brain. It trains us to stop using parts of the brain that are not at all productive, such as greed, jealousy and arrogance. It teaches to lose. Maybe I say. I’m speculating. And now I’m adding an argument by John Green, a YouTuber, who I love a lot, by increasing my speculation now. “Why did people suddenly get better at Tetris?” had asked the question a In his video, John Green. Indeed, there were not such successful players in the pre-2000 era when it first appeared. I want to ask a question before I can explain one of the most important reasons for this.
Which is more effective for solving a problem?
- A large number of people working alone
- A small number of people working in groups
Tetris was also very popular during the early 2000s when it first appeared. However, everyone was playing this game with the Game Boys in their hands, disconnected from each other. He was unaware of each other’s points. However, nowadays, players not only compare their scores, they connect with the internet, they form small but effective groups, they learn by looking at each other much faster. Presenting the final match we just watched, 16-year-old Joseph says he has improved himself by watching Tetris videos on YouTube.
You can be the brightest, smartest, most genius person in your community. Like a red cube. (When I think of cube, Minecraft came to mind after Tetris, the second most popular game of all time. You can also achieve incredible success with your genius. This is a very good thing for you. But civilization is not only developed with such geniuses. Even if it is more average, one more person like you. Coming to your side, and then two equally friendly people meet on the other side. When they come together, they form a small but effective group. Team. Team. Startup in the world of enterprise. Say whatever you call it. But these people who come together to solve a problem are superior to themselves. They can challenge people with intelligence because they go from shape to shape to solve that problem. Let’s not try it like this. Communicate comfortably and quickly in incubation environments. It did not focus on raising few geniuses. Investments are made to increase the quality of education throughout the country so that the average rises everywhere. Work groups can be created everywhere. In a sense, a nationwide Tetris game is designed. It is necessary to see such big games. See and learn. When you design such a game, groups with different specialties, which are formed in different ways, start to emerge everywhere. These groups gradually begin to solve problems. With the joint effort of these people who come together without leaving any gaps in harmony, another problem line is deleted from their lives. And at some point, doing this and acting like that starts to turn into a pit in society. It is addictive like Tetris. We need this kind of addiction.
