Well you’ve got me imagining fitting a woman into a project like a Tetris piece.
i keep doing this but then at some point they all disappear
Puzzle game Tetris has…a company!? That seems unnecessary.
It exists purely to license the rights to Tetris.
And shut down any game that even remotely looks like Tetris.
Have they…done that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company#Legal_enforcement
TTC drew attention in the late 1990s when it attempted to remove freeware and shareware clones of Tetris from the market by sending out cease-and-desist letters claiming both trademark and copyright infringement.[11] Creators of Tetris clones claimed that the company had no valid legal basis to restrict tetromino games that did not infringe on the Tetris name trademark, since copyright “look-and-feel” suits have not stood up in court in the past (Lotus v. Borland), and because the letters made no patent claims.[12]
In August 2008, Apple Inc. removed Tris, a clone of Tetris from its online App Store.[13] In March 2009, the Tetris Company sued BioSocia, operator of the Omgpop gaming portal[14][15] because one of its multiplayer games, Blockles, was too similar to Tetris. By September 2009, Omgpop removed the game from the website and replaced it with an alternate that the developers created, based on Puyo Puyo.
In May 2010, lawyers representing The Tetris Company sent Google a Digital Millennium Copyright Act Violation Notice regarding Tetris clones available on the Android Market.[16] Google responded by removing the 35 games listed in the notice even though, according to one developer, the games contained no references to Tetris.[17][18][19]
In February 2011, the Tetris Company continued to make copyright claims against independently developed Tetris clones, most notably against Tetrada on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. The developer, Mario Karagiannis, rejected the claims of copyright infringement on the grounds that copyright does not cover gameplay design, but still removed the game, citing lack of resources to fight what he called “bullying”.[20][21]
In the case Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc., a US District Court judge ruled in June 2012 that the Tetris clone Mino from Xio Interactive infringed on the Tetris Company’s copyrights by replicating elements such as the playfield dimensions and the shapes of the blocks.[22]
In April 2021, a YouTuber called JDH made an operating system that only runs Tetris.[23] Two months later, his GitHub repository was taken offline by The Tetris Company because of copyright infringement.[24][25]
Well consider me better informed, thanks.
Not a good look for them. No wonder I can’t find any more Tetris clones that don’t cost a lot of money.
It is. It’s a rightsholder corporate entity, an IP vampire.
Well, fuck. You don’t need to make it sound cool!
Vampires are only cool looking. They’re still monsters. That’s why the only game where you aren’t hunting them is where you are biased in their favor by being one.
One might even say… Puzzling.
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Agreed but can we remove mtx, crushing deadlines and expectations, and board driven decisions?
We need more people that care about games.
Ffs the latest prominent woman in gaming is the new Xbox CEO, who came from the AI industry.
Workers in gaming need to tick the “love video games” box before any others.
only 4% identified as transgender, non-binary or gender diverse
You need to have a comparison against the wider population when you show stats like this. Maybe that’s more than usual? When you say “22% of developers are women,” it’s clear that there are fewer women than the population in general. But we don’t need 50% of game developers being trans. (I mean, that might be fun to see but…)
If only all of our dads could give us jobs like this!
Her father, Henk Rogers, was the video game developer who secured the rights to distribute Tetris on Video game consoles and began to base his businesses in the U.S.
And they recently made a movie about this: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12758060/
It’s… ok.
I feel like “biographical” means something different than it used to.
Rogers noted, “It’s a Hollywood script, a movie. It’s not about history so a lot of [what’s in the movie] never happened.”
read the acticle, & it’s literally advertising.
Nothing about empowering women into game leadership positions.
Isn’t that a change that needs to be seen in general, not just gaming?
As a man in the trades, absolutely. I do my best to encourage women of any age to learn a skilled trade. There’s still a bit of a “boys club” sentiment, thankfully it’s starting to die out. There’s not enough people interested in doing the hard work involved in the trades to keep the skills going, even the sexists can’t afford to keep women out.
I have absolutely no issues working next to anyone, regardless of where they are on the gender/sexuality spectrums, all I ask is that they do their share and not be a douche-cannoe.
Maybe unsurprisingly the only 2 asks I have are too much for a lot of people.
If 50% of Tetris players are women and it’s a game made by mostly men, then it’s already successful and why does it need more women? Just go make games FFS, why is it always a demand to be handed roles in the biggest and most established companies? Also why would games targetting men want more women if they don’t want to target women?
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How would that work in practice though? Should the voices be scrambled or something and not all interviews are done online. If there’s an asshole who disregards a person because of their name or gender, then it will just happen at the interview, instead of during the resume.
Better having more people like Maya speak up and have more women game developers out there, showing they exist. It’s really about inspiring women to become game developers. But if you don’t see them, how can it inspire anyone?
With that said, I’m pretty sure the statistics are upward going.
Take a moment and think about what you just said. You presented a potential obstacle to implementing their idea and then a fairly accessible solution to that obstacle, and then concluded that it somehow can’t work, and then focused on ‘inspiring girls with the work of woman CEOs’ which suggests you think it is a better way to get women into game dev. However, only the most corporate-brained person would ever look at a CEO and feel inspired, and it wouldn’t be to make a game. Please don’t dismiss a real, practical measure, which could be implemented tomorrow and would make discrimination much more difficult, in favor a hand-wavey possible benefit via the nebulous space of ‘inspiration.’
Tetris CEO?
Why does a video game have or even need a CEO? 🤨
So they can slap people with lawsuits, of course.
Short form of The Terri’s Company Inc.
Tetris has a CEO?
And we care what they say when any and all recent (like, last 20 years) releases of Tetris have been money-grubbing slop?
Even going back to the 1980s, the best Tetris games were clones. The only good Tetris games were NES/GB where they couldn’t nickel and dime you, you paid once for the game and that was it, you could play it as much as you wanted to.
I dunno, Tetris Effect in VR is pretty dope. I’m still playing it.
The first time I played Tetris Effect in VR was like a religious experience. It blew my mind.
It’s also just a decent Tetris game, in my opinion.
We need less agendas.
The solution to everything is not more women.
Who better than the Tetris CEO to make the rotation needed in that industry, hopefully all the blocks fall into place.
ITT: people surprised one of the most recognizable and prolific games in the history of video games has a CEO.
She sounds like a savvy business person:
“We’re half the population, and we bring in a lot of money into the industry, and so I always question when our licensing partners are developing a new Tetris game: how many women do you have on the team? Because our demographic is close to 50[%].”
Yeah that checks out. It’s pretty wild that “developing games for our demographic / population” is so hard for gaming companies to grasp as a winning concept.
I mean… I was half surprised, but mostly because Tetris is so ubiquitous that there are >2500 projects on itch.io alone that have Tetris as a tag. It’s like being the CEO of ‘Rolling Dice.’ So many other creators have taken the idea and run with it into spaces the original creator(s) probably never envisioned. At this point, is there anything but a ship-of-Theseus style construct of red tape holding up a name on something that barely bares any resemblance to what it was 30 years ago?
I don’t care if someone is male or female.
People shouldn’t be hired based on sex.
