Tetris, but the Pieces are Made out of Triangles

[@aGameScout]

Goel has made a discord server for everyone playing this game! discord.gg/NUKWP6UCHF

[@mygoogaa12]

Yea

[@skinsterguy]

ㅤ

[@smt4090]

_t r i a n g l e_

[@celu7361]

i hate having 10 years old i wish i could skip tree years of my life

[@mygoogaa12]

@@celu7361 lmao tree 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣???????????????

[@hngldr]

The C in "C" pieces stands for "Cursed" This was awesome - can't wait for more brain-hurting content of this!

[@JuZockt]

how is that not a pinned comment yet?

[@geologicalgeologist]

The H in Antartica stands for hot

[@planesandgeographyaremything]

@@geologicalgeologist xd

[@laiofurious6433]

The great thing about this game compared to Pentris, is that this one actually makes sense with its rules, even if both are modified version of Tetris. While Pentris is like "yeah let's just make new 5-blocks pieces and get over with it", ignoring at all the problems this can cause, Tritris' creator stopped and put a lot of thoughts about how to solve obvious problems meeting when the rules are the same, but the pieces are completely different, making it a new game, with new rules, and, of course, competitivie. I really hope this turns into something bigger, it can be just as (or even more) interesting than Tetris itself.

[@Goel25]

Wow, thank you so much! A lot of thought from me, along with the rest of the Tetris community went into Tritris, and I'm so happy with how it turned out :) Adding the white triangle was one of the greatest things to happen as it led to the phasing mechanic, which unlocks so many possible combinations, as well as scoring a Tritris, and the interesting ways to setup for one.

[@laiofurious6433]

@@Goel25 yes! The idea is great, and as I said, the way you solve the geometric problems, along with the exclusive rule about the 3 single triangles is simply awesome. I'm kinda mediocre with Tetris, let alone Tritris lol, but I'm really looking forward to see if the game hooks people in and it turns into a nice competitive scene along Tetris, this really has a lot of potential!

[@Goel25]

@@laiofurious6433 Competitive Tritris would be amazing to watch, and I hope someone can take the world record from me!

[@HyperVanilo]

Imagine a race between Tritris player and Tetris player to get max score.

[@Goel25]

​@@HyperVanilo Currently, the Tritris WR is 417,146. I think there will be a maxout within a couple of months. It will be interesting to see which is faster, Tetris or Tritris!

[@unitymask]

what if the soundtrack was the tetris theme but in 3/4, like a waltz

[@deathtrap5556]

6/8 because I'm evil

[@magicomerv]

Cool, I don’t mind taking a stab when I have the time haha

[@dmas7749]

@@deathtrap5556 -that's...the same tho-

[@deathtrap5556]

@@dmas7749 exactly.

[@ericstoverink6579]

@@dmas7749 not really. They are rhythmically quite different.

[@SoulinSadness]

If we're lucky enough to have CTWC'21 at a location again, this HAS to be part of the day 1 side tournaments. I'd love to see some ppl destroy this game

[@Goel25]

That would be amazing! I'd love to see people get really good at this!

[@NStripleseven]

Oooooo, that’d be cool.

[@YusifTetris]

pog. finally i can write my name with minos

[@DwAboutItManFr]

Imagine a monotris.

[@impossiblehanley2732]

@Manuel Salokangas it would be actually a monis

[@animekrrish]

Congrats for 500 like milestone

[@YusifTetris]

@@animekrrish :PogChamp: thanks

[@moodle6500]

@Omega Zero pog

[@thecastiel69]

It's like NES game named Pyramid

[@mark6302]

bootleg ass Sanchen games haha

[@Yubin_Lee_Doramelin]

That 3/4 square piece is so cursed in Pyramid, too... LOL

[@taconator1213]

“There’s a strategic element to finding holes that are accesible” truer words have never been spoken.

[@taconator1213]

7:32 in case anyone was wondering

[@justarandomminecrafter9349]

lmfao

[@eavyeavy2864]

not true i swear gen z and their made up dictionary

[@Nulono]

*setting up

[@djex_0123]

I feel like I played something like this before owning an official tetris cartridge, something called "Pyramid" or something with this egyptian vibe and boy was it fustrating.

[@jj3006]

Yes it is "Pyramid". I've been playing this game for hours.

[@ryun.8072]

yeah, it's just pyramid on nes

[@gianpatricio9773]

Old pyramid? I dont know i just saw it and played it and saw triangles or something

[@Ruinah]

​@@gianpatricio9773 This game - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnK7qml-h7Gcga8

[@revonmagpiecorvidaethe3rd654]

my brother has a game like that on his bootleg gameboy (one of those things with like, 500 games on it and no cartridge slot.) it's a little different from this in how the pieces are shaped but it's definitely the same concept

[@zachary_smith84]

Suddenly reminded of "Pyramid". That piece was hella cursed in that. So much so that the dev included a bomb mechanic to try and remove the disasters it caused. But they somehow managed to make that worse than the cursed piece itself as the bombs just kinda rng'd what to remove and leave behind causing holes you couldn't clean up.

[@YusifTetris]

I laugh every time he gets cursed green piece

[@Arrica101]

This looks both wrong in every way and awesone at the same time. Such a cool concept

[@CoachJohnMcGuirk]

There is going to be a small subset of people who become insanely good at triangle tetris.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

I’m pretty good at it I’d say

[@dannymartial7997]

Even though this game is cursed, it brings this warm fuzzy feeling to all tetris players because it takes us back to when we were new to the game and just learning the mechanics.

[@NerdyLaundry]

So fun to see this game gain some traction. Watching it grow when posted in the discord was super cool

[@ToqTheWise]

Tetris is already my brain running at full capacity. This just puts it over the edge.

[@Ghiaman1334]

I remember a game like this! For the life of me I can't remember what it was called or how I found it though. One thing I think would benefit this guy's concept is maybe slanting the playing area to match the hypotenuse on the triangles, and have the pieces already move diagonally? Idk why I just think it'd feel neater

[@thomasstewart9752]

Tetris fans have it so good. they get to see their passion made new and interesting again so incredibly often. I think that the "perpetually new" quality of simple concepts like Tetris and Minecraft is part of what made them so successful.

[@ravenanne1734]

Unfortunately it's not really a new concept, since "Pyramid" came out on the NES and is this but old, but it is really cool seeing people bringing back old things, especially when people are calling this cool and fun while the original Pyramid is considered... Not cool...

[@ReReCoil]

6:21 *sad neglected white mino noises*

[@Keronin]

Hey! I (sorta) made it into a second aGameScout video! 3:00

[@megamndslftthigh]

Nice dude!

[@ToqTheWise]

Time traveler: *steps on a butterfly* Plexey Aajitnov 100 years later:

[@TheMultiverseTraveller]

Hey I remember a game like this! Back when all I had was a famiclone and this was one out of the other 50 other bootlegs in the "console"

[@not-on-pizza]

It's an unlicensed NES game called Pyramid. It's... significantly more cursed...

[@EduardoHatchet]

Lol I also had that crap as a kid. And it featured other gems like Super Shrek Bros.

[@Bacon-qf4ql]

this hurts my brain

[@GaryGagnon2012]

Mind-blowing, as this is equally fun and difficult. I viewed your high score game and video with Jonas playing! Love the tips and video format from both Goel and Game Scout. I want to see more, PLEASE.

[@dudodudo8372]

i remember programming tetris at school for fun and we introduced a "hollow" piece that was 3x3 piece with an empty space in the middle, a "slash" piece that was like a long bar but diagonal and a "fog" piece, that was random 3 single pieces in 3x3 matrix, that could be rotated until the piece was set and then every "loose" single piece set down by "gravity" 😀

[@Cyril8204]

A good idea for a game like this would be to have 4 squares pieces

[@CrockHoax]

That would be so cool!!! I think I have a name for it... QUADTRIS

[@myrupcat4761]

Someone should really design that!

[@impossiblehanley2732]

Any company should hire this man.

[@Salkauski]

Woah... how did nobody else think of this! It would be so cool!

[@zachnado69]

is that not just tetris???

[@charles8589]

Holy hell i need to play this. I stopped playing tetris years ago because it got boring. EDIT: I played it and its incredible. Super challenging, feels like playing tetris as a kid ! Awesome video

[@ColorHeartCarlie42]

I didn't know there were Tetris KZbinrs, that's fascinating.

[@CinnamonOwO]

Wumbotize is a Tetris KZbinr

[@matt5g]

Hey hey if you ever want some cursed tetris games let me know, I have about 20 or so interesting versions that I could upload for play

[@matt5g]

@@420ronincubing3 yeah, pretty sure it was a gan 356 sm, it's an old picture

[@ianmoore5502]

@@matt5g I want an 11m

[@YusifTetris]

Classic Tritris World Championships when

[@YusifTetris]

@@cheddar204 wdym only 2837382 times

[@mohamadsarwar7997]

@@YusifTetris bruh you haven't commented 100082655 times? weak

[@Ruinah]

So, Pyramid World Championships?

[@Jellylamps]

All we got so far are monthly championships

[@Yubin_Lee_Doramelin]

Believe it or not, there was an actual unlicensed game on NES comprised of those pieces! I believe the title of the game is Pyramid???

[@TheMultiverseTraveller]

Hey someone else that remembers that game! Yep it used triangles instead of squares and I remembered it being a lot harder that normal Tetris. (I played a Famiclone that was a present for my brother which is how I found it)

[@TheMultiverseTraveller]

You made me remember that damned song that looped over and over again while you played.

[@kawaiigreenmage]

Thank you! I was looking for anyone to mention Pyramid. This is basically Pyramid with some weirder shapes.

[@neitoxotien2258]

Yes I really used to play that

[@kbpclo.mp4]

I love it when he comes out with a new video!❤

[@codetaku]

> The most playable versions of Pentris are the ones that give you every possible mino all the way down to 1 Around 2010~2011, people in my dorm at MIT actually coded up an "ntris" that goes from 1 to I think ~9 squares per piece? The website they made for it at the time seems defunct now but iirc it averaged larger piece counts as the level got higher (at the same time as the speed went up). But minos as small as 1 still *could* drop at higher levels (they just got rarer).

[@Goel25]

I just got accepted to MIT and I'll be attending next year :) Maybe I'll have to make n-tritris with my MIT dorm!

[@WastedHog]

Yo, cool game and coverage! I regret putting off watching it :p The more I work on my own little games/mods, the more I really appreciate hearing about game design decisions like these, I think Goel did a great job! Another game I think would be really cool to look at is "Puzzle Juggle Trouble" by Lilla Oshisaure. It's built around a lot of Modern Tetris-style mechanics like SRS, which I know is a little off-brand here, but it's really fun IMO (also 2-player local :o )!

[@8BitShadow]

The necessity for the single pieces could be reduced (but not entirely stripped) if the bottom of the panel was "V" shape. While it would still be possible to get those areas where the single pieces are required, you'd get that happening considerably less often and would just 'feel' a lot better. As it is though it's fine, just something I hope they consider/considered.

[@okayiguess74]

I honestly can't describe how much I love/hate this, it gave me ungodly psychic damage but cured me of all my pains

[@catchara1496]

When you cast cure wounds on yourself but you use damaging yourself to cast spells

[@BobbyDank1015]

Jonas would have such a blast playing this game. I miss him......

[@aGameScout]

He did! He played it on one of his last ever streams. Goel has some clips in his original video

[@FedorovAvtomat]

There is already a game like this for the NES. An unlicensed game by Sachen called Pyramid. It doesn't have quite as many different pieces that are on this one, I think only 5 or 6 of them. But they knew that the game was way harder than Tetris since they added a bomb button that allows you to drop a bomb and clear out a decent sized chunk of an area you may or may have not messed up.

[@centristwat5881]

Is there a way to contact him? I could help him with it. I love triangles.

[@Goel25]

Hello! If you'd like to contribute, there is a github repo at github.com/Goel25/tritris

[@aGameScout]

Join his discord! It's in the pinned comment on this video

[@bsharpmajorscale]

@Tanmay Jain Then you'll get destroyed by the math community; they don't like people mixing circles and squares like that.

[@SymbolsWriter]

7:15 "I never know what to do with the Greenpeace"

[@wavycyrus4880]

Keep up the amazing work u got me into nes tetris and now I'm addicted

[@bahamutdragons]

This is very reminiscent of Pyramid for the NES. It's surprising no one seems to have brought it up.

[@FFRPro21]

This is really neat. I've seen some people play something that's pretty much just like this. It's a bootleg NES game called Pyramid.

[@garygenerous8982]

Really neat variant with some cool mechanics. Hope it catches on :)

[@crescentfreshsongs]

This is the most infuriating Tetris variant ever, and I kinda love it.

[@LordVysh]

One cool idea for this would be if the squares you form diagonally would clear that "line" diagonally.

[@DrMegaGaming]

I somehow managed to get 4,000 on one of my first runs. And was never able to beat it

[@redapplefour6223]

if you like pentris check out combinos, which starts out like tetris and slowly adds higher and higher pieces as you go. it's the only tetris varient i'm roughly good at & im not very good at it but id like to see ppl get good at it

[@Benjy52]

I just want to mention that there’s always a NES game of this back in the 80’s.

[@Pumbear]

I feel like the white triangles should clear, but count as a tri-tris. Maybe show them in the pre-view as a sort of ammo, first showing 3 triangles, then 2, then 1 as you drop each one in.

[@thefandom6243]

I feel like utilizing those C pieces are the equivalent to executing T-spins

[@apdate3015]

my dumbass read the title as "Triangles, but the pieces are made out of Tetris" I need sleep.

[@Chizypuff]

Saw the title and just came to comment that it should be called "tritris" then read the description, Thank god

[@ScribeAwoken]

I'm a reminded a lot of a Puyo clone for Linux (iirc there was a Windows port but idk if it's still available for download anywhere. The code is open source so if you want you could theoretically compile it yourself) called Cuyo, which is single-player and instead focused on stages where you have to clear all of the garbage puyo, with different twists on the standard rules of how pieces connect to each other It includes such tweaks to the rules as: - a stage where matches can be made in 8 directions rather than only 4 - a stage where matches can only be made diagonally, not vertically or horizontally - stages where the pieces are aligned on a hex grid rather than a square grid - a stage where you match based on the movement that Knights in Chess follow. Matches are made between pieces that are either two spaces apart vertically and one horizontally, or one space vertically and two horizontally. Matches are indicated by a diagonal line connecting the pieces.

[@evybabee]

This was great to watch you play it instead of me trying it myself and raging :)

[@Toprak135]

The full lines waiting until all three single triangles are placed is basically the Zone in Tetris Effect.

[@Redfordcrate]

This cursed tetris is already pretty well known in the questionable video game circles as a pair of unlicensed video games called "Pyramid" and "Pyramid 2". They are both very.... uh.... special.

[@ravenanne1734]

I dont watch any videos on Tetris at all, and have no idea who this man is, but I was trying to figure out what song Pyramid uses for its BG music and this gets recommended to me so KZbin definitely knows even if the rest of the world stays ignorant

[@hanakoisbestgirl4752]

I actually didn't really know what a t-spin was until a couple years ago

[@thedoublessymbol]

Same

[@conormckenzie7404]

Really neat game! After playing a few rounds of it, my high score is 51720. IMO the creative stacking potential surpasses or at least matches that of modern Tetris

[@CasualGraph]

For anyone curious, the term here instead of "tetromino" is "triabolo": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyabolo

[@snowfloofcathug]

Triomino also works. Tetromino, domino are both established words as is

[@seabassthegamer6644]

@@snowfloofcathug "Trionimo" would refer to shapes built from 3 squares.

[@heyfishboi5806]

Yooo this is super sick! Definately gonna have to check this game out it looks like a ton of fun!

[@Goel25]

Thank you!

[@heyfishboi5806]

@@Goel25 for sure dude! Great work btw this is wild!

[@Swordkirby9999]

There is an unlicensed game on NES called Pyramid that is exactly this concept. It's not every good because of the problems listed at 2:35 and it doesn't really have a good way of dealing with that. I'm glad the guy thought of a solution with the single "Ghost Triangle" pieces.

[@waynemidnight7454]

Triangle Tetris looks pretty cool.

[@MeesterTweester]

That looks like a great game!

[@linkthehero8431]

6:21 made a lot of dirty jokes spin around in my head 🤣

[@michaeljerman3938]

0:45 as they are technically isosceles triangles, they are considered right triangles, there is a difference and isosceles falls into a different category.

[@titopaul9299]

Thanks for this comment. It made me look up the definitions. It seems that both you and Scout are right. Scout clarifies in the video that Goel is using isosceles triangles that are "basically splitting a square in half". This just another way of saying to a non math major audience "Goel in his game is using an isosceles right triangle." An isosceles right triangle (Tritris Triangle) is both a right triangle (one corner is 90 degrees) and an isosceles triangle (2 sides have equal length). By themselves both isosceles triangles and right triangles are broad categories that can mean many different types of triangles. Obviously an equilateral triangle (sides are all the same length) is still a type of isosceles triangle but a unique one.

[@the_dietcam]

Wouldn't the impossible gaps not be a problem if the board was rotated 45 degrees?

[@Shadow-gc6le]

This game looks like something from a 90\early 2000s sifi movie to show it's in the future and everything is more advanced

[@tiagotiagot]

03:11 What if you allowed diagonal lines to also be used to clear pieces, would that solve the issue without requiring the ghosting?

[@squelchedotter]

Have you seen Mixolumia? It's another interesting tetris-like game. The music is amazing.

[@squelchedotter]

(The author also has a tweet thread that journals coming up with the game idea, which is very interesting)

[@Alouette_EXE]

I remembered the game called "Pyramid" on NES! I played it on a bootleg GBA cartage btw and I remembered struggling just to get a single line.

[@joakinfrati7867]

I saw the game on jonas stream

[@vRyanXOXO]

My man speaking at 2x speed in the intro 0_o

[@MagesGuild]

Pyramid solved the gaps problem by giving a limited number of missiles that could obliterate mess; and whenever you score a double line, you gain one missile.

[@harrisgagnon2228]

This game is amazing!

[@dantespekken3549]

Pentris/pintris/? kind of reminds me of "out of control" in blockout, super large janky pieces that barrely fit. Also I think this game would be interesting with 45 degree rotations instead of 90 degree (certainly would make the green shape better to handle I think) and then being able to clear by each half line

[@xeridea]

The issue is isosceles triangles don't rotate how you would expect. I think ideally you would use equilateral but let them fall along the outside edges, perhaps having the blocked part semi faded graphically to make it obvious.

[@perappelgren948]

Nice video! But I want to see you play more of this. 👍👍👍

[@AndrewTaylorPhD]

ok but bottom right of the grid @2:45 - cute lil snake in a party hat

[@HuffyT266]

This is awesome! It reminds me of me and my friends playing Not Tetris 2, and kinda relearning something that feels so familiar. Have you tried it? It's definitely a different game-style, but it can be really fun. Specially the vs mode!

[@KYLEandALEX]

This already was a game sometime in the past. And I have an emulated version of it.

[@testicIe]

I feel like this video is going to blow up

[@aleksisuuronen9094]

I think it would help if you could flip the pieces mirror like. It would reduce the gap problem a lot and it would make it easier and you could have more pieces

[@Altis_play]

7:15 give them some support ? ^^

[@iatetakis1044]

So someone turned Puzzle Catcher into tertis

[@ddnava96]

Honestly, most of the green pieces in this vid could actually fit perfectly sonewhere on the board

[@luciopavan3329]

This existed before, there are 2 games that I know. 1. Pyramid 2. Benthal

[@sl1pz369]

Benthal World is a ROM hack of Pyramid. Hello, fellow Pixel Player owner.

[@luciopavan3329]

@@sl1pz369 it's good to learn something new once in a while

[@lumpsmchumps6047]

This is basically NES Pyramid, which was on Kusogrande the bad video games tournament because triangles are absolutely cursed

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

Hope you revisit this game at some point

[@budgetcoinhunter]

Look into a game on the NES called Pyramid by Sachen Enterprises (unlicensed NES cart), published by American Video Systems in the US.

[@melonenlord2723]

5:30 but all of them are done or what is going on here?

[@shaquilleoatmeal4337]

I watched jonas vs joseph tetris battle now Ive been watching tetris videos

[@Thomas-uy4vn]

That's the power of jonas

[@balbar_b]

Jonas (crying while smile)

[@michaelsegal3558]

There’s an NES game called Pyramid that’s just like this I used to have it on a multi game cart

[@anang04_rabo]

so if you have friend with hight skill tetris and always win with t spin.Gife them this tettris and watching them can they still do t spin???

[@bryantempleton2836]

The name Tetris (coined by Pajitnov) derives in part from the Greek prefix tetra-, meaning "four,"

[@luke_fabis]

I feel like it'd work much better if rotations were scrapped in favor of reflections. That should obviate the need for the white single triangles, since falling shapes could then be reoriented to fill awkward holes.

[@misterxya8465]

Very interesting mode, but the rotations buttons are perfektly horrible on a german keypad, because y and z are fliped (and it is the only major Change) :D So i think that i must switch me keypad for this game.

[@reimarpb]

As a dvorak user, I feel this. I looked at the code and the creator is using p5.js which doesn't support checking for the physical key location instead of just the character pressed, so I don't think that will ever be fixed.

[@Goel25]

@@reimarpb Sorry, I did not put any consideration into different keyboards/languages. If I have some extra time, I could try adding custom keybinds. Although you cannot check for physical key location, I could allow the player to enter which key they want to use for each keybind.

[@Goel25]

@@reimarpb @Mister Xya I've updated the game to have a settings button on the left. There is a button for each control. When you click the button, it will wait for you to press whichever key you want to be mapped to that control. Hope this helps!

[@reimarpb]

@@Goel25 Nice, I appreciate it

[@Bassotronics]

The dude sounded like a regular teenage dude, but once I saw the complex programming, I was like.. *Ok.. He's a genius!*

[@reeepingk]

I feel like this game would be better played on a slanted board. Something interesting would be to have the board be a V shape and new pieces get delivered to the left one, then the right one, but then maybe with some creative way of exchanging pieces so it's just just like you're playing 2 games at once.

[@vangoghsseveredear]

Along the top where a single can fit through should be slightly transparent for ease of visual aid