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Many game fans have enjoyed the Tetris movie, which chronicled the creation and licensing of Tetris, the addictive game that Alexey Pajitnov created behind the Iron Curtain. His friend Henk Rogers went through a great deal of trouble to license the game in Russia and even get Pajitnov out of the Soviet Union decades ago.
But there’s one more chapter to the tale unfolding.
Today, Pajitnov and others who unearthed a forgotten game in the Tetris canon talked at the Game Developers Conference about Tetris Reversed, a prototype for a game that was considered lost.
But little did Pajitnov know that an engineer in charge of the game, Vedran Klanac, had kept a copy of it. Through the help of intermediaries, he showed it to Pajitnov and the two shared their memories of what happened to the lost game.
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Tetris Revisited panel at GDC 2024.
Pajitnov, originally from Moscow, became famous as a computer engineer and inventor of the legendary computer game Tetris, which he created in the 1980s while working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Rogers got the rights to the game and eventually got Pajitnov out of the country. They retold some of this story at our GamesBeat Next 2023 event last October. (Be sure to sign up for GamesBeat Summit 2024 on May 20-21; you can use a 25% discount code: gbs24dean25.
Alexey Pajitnov is the creator of Tetris
Pajitnov has lived in the U.S. since 1991, where he has been involved in the development of games such as Pandora’s Box and worked with companies such as Microsoft and WildSnake Software. In addition to his iconic Tetris game, he is behind titles such as Hatris, El-Fish, and Hexic among many others that have deepened and expanded game design. He was awarded First Penguin Award at Game Developers Choice Awards in 2007 for his breakthrough in the world of games. And his story was the subject of the Tetris movie.
Klanac is the CEO of Ocean Media, and he is originally from Zagreb, Croatia. He was an aerospace engineer who started his career in the games industry with Croteam where he built the physics engine for Serious Sam 2.
Since 2006, he has been running Ocean Media, a game publishing company with a focus on consoles. During the last 20 years, he was involved in production as a programmer and executive producer in more than 200 projects. And it turns out he was the programmer who created the Tetris Reversed code based on instructions from Pajitnov, who had passed them on through a middleman.
More than a decade ago
Vedran Klanac was the prototype creator.
In 2011, programmer Ve …
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Many game fans have enjoyed the Tetris movie, which chronicled the creation and licensing of Tetris, the addictive game that Alexey Pajitnov created behind the Iron Curtain. His friend Henk Rogers went through a great deal of trouble to license the game in Russia and even get Pajitnov out of the Soviet Union decades ago.
But there’s one more chapter to the tale unfolding.
Today, Pajitnov and others who unearthed a forgotten game in the Tetris canon talked at the Game Developers Conference about Tetris Reversed, a prototype for a game that was considered lost.
But little did Pajitnov know that an engineer in charge of the game, Vedran Klanac, had kept a copy of it. Through the help of intermediaries, he showed it to Pajitnov and the two shared their memories of what happened to the lost game.
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GamesBeat Summit Call for Speakers
We’re thrilled to open our call for speakers to our flagship event, GamesBeat Summit 2024 hosted in Los Angeles, where we will explore the theme of “Resilience and Adaption”.
Apply to speak here
Tetris Revisited panel at GDC 2024.
Pajitnov, originally from Moscow, became famous as a computer engineer and inventor of the legendary computer game Tetris, which he created in the 1980s while working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Rogers got the rights to the game and eventually got Pajitnov out of the country. They retold some of this story at our GamesBeat Next 2023 event last October. (Be sure to sign up for GamesBeat Summit 2024 on May 20-21; you can use a 25% discount code: gbs24dean25.
Alexey Pajitnov is the creator of Tetris
Pajitnov has lived in the U.S. since 1991, where he has been involved in the development of games such as Pandora’s Box and worked with companies such as Microsoft and WildSnake Software. In addition to his iconic Tetris game, he is behind titles such as Hatris, El-Fish, and Hexic among many others that have deepened and expanded game design. He was awarded First Penguin Award at Game Developers Choice Awards in 2007 for his breakthrough in the world of games. And his story was the subject of the Tetris movie.
Klanac is the CEO of Ocean Media, and he is originally from Zagreb, Croatia. He was an aerospace engineer who started his career in the games industry with Croteam where he built the physics engine for Serious Sam 2.
Since 2006, he has been running Ocean Media, a game publishing company with a focus on consoles. During the last 20 years, he was involved in production as a programmer and executive producer in more than 200 projects. And it turns out he was the programmer who created the Tetris Reversed code based on instructions from Pajitnov, who had passed them on through a middleman.
More than a decade ago
Vedran Klanac was the prototype creator.
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