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Not exactly "incomplete." The core of the article was written before the guideline was formally made and enforced on licencees. This is why the author went to s
by defertoreptar 8y ago
Not exactly "incomplete." The core of the article was written before the guideline was formally made and enforced on licencees. This is why the author went to such lengths in designing and documenting a standardized version. In fact, it's funny you should mention it since The Tetris Company actually reached out to this article's author for help in designing the guideline (unfortunately it didn't pan out).
- dragontamer 8y agoI'm not sure if the dates line up with your story. Tetris Guidelines started with Tetris Worlds (2001). While the parent article makes numerous references to 2003 or later (the code says 2007, some various Perl bits are 2005, etc. etc.) Fortunately, the article is never wrong per se. It is clearly written that "Standard Tetris" is the name that the article gives to the IBM PC version of Tetris (1986). Its just odd to me that it has references to all sorts of 2003, 2005, and 2007 stuff without mentioning SRS or Guidelines.
- defertoreptar 8y agoYou're right that Tetris Worlds came out in 2001, and was the first instance of the guideline we know today. I was referring to the bit in article here: > Later in 2003, I received a message from Henk Rogers, inviting me to Hawaii to meet him and Alexey Pajitnov to talk about establishing some sort of standard for Tetris, for the purposes of having Tetris tournaments. What's fair to say, though, is that although there's technically overlap on the timeline, he would've most certainly been more familiar with the myriad of Tetris games that predated the guideline. Tetris Worlds came out two years before his article, and at that point, nobody really even knew there was a guideline.