Tetropolis
With all the news about the big AAA releases dominating what's coming out of GDC, this indie announcement is the one that's stuck with me.
In Tetropolis, you play as a defective tetronimo. As the story goes, there's a factory that creates all those puzzle pieces for all the puzzle games. Perhaps that's why you only see the next one piece in Tetris-- it's the one currently being made! At any rate, our hero gets made with only three blocks instead of four, and is sent to the disassembler. Along the way you'll meet another defective tetronimo, one with only a single block, and work together to try to escape disassembly and find a place to fit in.
The gameplay is what's...
In Tetropolis, you play as a defective tetronimo. As the story goes, there's a factory that creates all those puzzle pieces for all the puzzle games. Perhaps that's why you only see the next one piece in Tetris-- it's the one currently being made! At any rate, our hero gets made with only three blocks instead of four, and is sent to the disassembler. Along the way you'll meet another defective tetronimo, one with only a single block, and work together to try to escape disassembly and find a place to fit in.
The gameplay is what's...
I like the idea quite a bit. Tetris doesn't contain a huge amount of lore... or should I say doesn't have any lore so adding some characterization to it could be really interesting. Hope this is game is more than just a really inventive gimmick.
There was a threadless t-shirt that explained where those tetronimoes come from. Unfortunately it's not for sale anymore but here is a picture of it: http://cdn9001.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/blurb_tetris1_20100714.gif
Getting a FORBIDDEN on that image.
http://www.ripten.com/2010/07/14/threadless-t-shirt-explains-where-tetris-pieces-come-from-lbd416/
Tim's link didn't work for me at first, but now it looks like it's working.
Ah yeah, it is working now. Odd.