@Der182: Bro, it FREE! If you don't like it, then make your own app or go ou and just buy the $10 version. Quit you whinin' and don't be a HATER!

Sloth

@bana: Trism rules. I'd love to be able to make my own syllogism levels. User made content for that game could be REALLY fun. Havent tried Last.FM. Why do you like ti better than Pandora?

ALT

@Der182: You are 100% right. This is impossible to control.

ALT

@Der182: agreed

extraextra

@ALT:

Yeah, I don't use Aurora Feint. It seems to take up space and it's really not that fun. It's cool, though. I like Trism (not free). Also, I think the Last.FM app is WAY better than the Pandora app. I don't know why it has a lower rating. The only thing I don't like about it is the volume button is not always there; you need to hit the button at the top left.

bana

@bana:

Ooops. Meant "devoweled".

bana

@craig:

Looks like someone got devowled?

bana

I had a little fun with it. What they don't mention is that it'll pause your game when you Home Out. Pretty solid showin though.

I'm still chewing through ebooks on Stanza and utiziling the real Phone/Touch Killer App: Rainstick

YourTechSupport

Need a place to hold a block as well. Lines to next level... a few things like that would help it feel... not free.

kosikutioner

@hypnotik_jello: Working fine for me in FF3.

Cyborgmatt

@ALT: I forgot Aurora Feint, my bad. That actually plays pretty solidly too.

ALT

hmmm. the video player is busted in FF3 - sound but no video

hypnotik_jello

hey a free game that doesnt look like total crap? A-Mazing

ALT

I love Tetris but really can't stand this version. The controls are VERY FRUSTRATING when you are trying to stack things just right. There's nothing worse than trying to put a block in a perfect location only to move over by one block when you are trying to drag it down basically causing you to totally mess up your screen's organization.

The controls are just plain annoying. Maybe they could have put in a direction-pad idea somewhere (either the screen acts as one large D-pad or there is an actual animation of one in the corner).

Der182

Rpt ftr m: . Prt. f. Ttrs. s. Nt. Nws.

craig

what i like best about Tris is that you can slide a piece back up a little bit before it settles into place, for those last minute moves and corrections. :)

TonyRockyHorror

I sick of people and there crappy camera work. Set the damn thing on something and be done with it for crying out loud!

duuktoprock

what's worse is having to pay for tetris on a regular phone. Thanks, Verizon for ripping us. (and so is Sprint, ATT).

nfs

This is pretty sweet. I love tetris, but didn't wanna shell out 10 bucks for something I knew would be awkward to control.

As a complete side note, this new disemvoweling feature has created a new game for me - figuring out what the hell was actually posted. It's actually quite enjoyable, on many levels ^_^

Aristeia

Needs a two finger scroll gesture to drop something straight down. Other than that, not bad. You definitely know you're playing Tetris and not some overly bastardized version.

soggy_cheerio

The game is good...moves a little fast from what I remember from my last game of tetris. Other than that it's a well designed game.

thor79

Hooray! I am super excited for this. I loved this game back on my Jailbroken 1.1.4. The controls do take some getting used to. But it's easier to deal with than monkey ball.

MikeSWelch

@Aristeia: I know! I'm going to go with: 'Repeat after me: A. Port. Of. Tetris. Is. Not. News.' Do I win something? Shucks.

gordeaoux

Well it's about time...
Glad it's here, although it seems a little bit faster than it should be.

Ooh, disemvoweled? wndr hw tht wrks... I guess it doesn't work too well when the word "I" shows up, eh?...

The Amazing Ant

Ok, actually got to play it. I don't think I can keep playing it. It doesn't allow sliding upon touching a piece. That's a totally vital move for when you need to fill gaps! I don't need the super-spin thing that keeps it going, but I do need to be able to continue moving it for that fraction of a second before it's considered "locked" into place.

Oh well =/ Guess i'll keep waiting for another clone, or hope for an update.

Aristeia

The difference in control between Tetris and Tris is HUGE. Tetris feels a LOT better. The paid version is annoying with the music and overdesign, but the gameplay is solid, a lot more solid than this. I'd rather pay the ten bucks.

Marcelo

I've been amazed to find that so many people don't think borrowing a game concept constitutes copyright infringement and that mainstream sites like this even promote it, "Quick! Everyone download it before EA and Russia team up to sue the developer!". You shouldn't simply be able to copy someone else's concept and release it as your own for free or for money without their permission.

There are TONS of other applications that are knock offs on the App Store as well. I wouldn't be surprised if over time we start to see many apps get pulled after getting contacted by the original copyright holders. Just take a look in the word games section at the number of Boggle clones. As we've seen with the Scrabulous case on Facebook, Hasbro is very protective of their IP and many of these companies likely won't sit still for too long.

bks7g

@Aristeia: Ok, nevermind, i'm retarded. the slide thing works, i just... you know... suck.

Still, the interface makes this pretty hard, haha.

Aristeia

On the fence. Tetris in ANY form should be accessible, fun, challenging. Tetris clones have a chance to do something better with the purely elemental design. Take Tetris DS for example. It took a great concept and threw some interesting touch features in it, but it didn't change the core gameplay.

These guys are doing something a little better by integrating touch into it, making it free, etc.. but it doesn't seem unique enough. That said, it strips down all of the crap from the official one, so GOOD JOB TRIS!

Human Bomb

I just played this version of tetris and I think I'll stick to my DS homebrew version of TGM3.

No hard drops, rotation rules, and frustrating controls amongst other things that make this version of tetris one of the worst that I've played. At least it's free.

Fogo

Oh god FINALLY. One of the main reasons I jailbroke my iPhone 3G only to find it's total absence within Cydia. Thanks for the heads up, would never have checked otherwise, especially as I'm almost sure it'll be removed or at least a lapse of drama/controversy will surround it.

i_9

This is great...Tetris is one of my all-time favorite games. I can't wait to try this out. Oh, wait, I don't have an iPhone. Dang. When, oh, when will we get cool games like this for those of us without iPhones?

Tetris has spawned an amazing variety of clones. One version I remember had 3-D blocks that you arranged while looking down into a well they fell into. That was a bitch to play when drunk, I tell you.

The history of Tetris is an interesting one. It was released in June 1985 by Soviet programmer Alexey Pajitnov. What's interesting is that it appears craig got disemvoweled for being critical of Gizmodo (his post read "Repeat after me: A Port of Tetris Is Not News". Apparently, freedom of speech is fine as long as the pointy end of it isn't directed at the editors. Craig isn't able to post comments now, so he couldn't respond to the responses above. Tetris has been ported to nearly all major operating systems and game systems and is still very popular, as this new release shows.

dsmvwld

@kosikutioner: I... don't entirely understand what you mean. It -is- free. I've been considering some improvements that I can make, row animation and holding among them, but if anything, they will, indeed, be not-free. This version will remain free, and get bugfixes and such, but functionality additions will go into a "deluxe" version.

@Der182: Sorry - I am 100% opposed to adding a D-pad control scheme. Every version of this game for the iPhone before mine used it, and it looked awful, took up too much screen space, and felt - to me, at least - hideously clunky.

Noah Witherspoon

i've loved this game when it was a jailbreak app and its still amazing. even if it was 2.99 i would have still gotten it.

rudez90

I also find the control scheme a bit too..erm..touchy...for my tastes. How about taking a cue from Moonlight Mahjong Lite (my personal pick for best free app) and incorporate some double touch/tap controls? Single finger slide for rotation, double finger slide for lateral movement, and a double tap for dropping pieces? Add the *slightest* bit more leeway for sliding/spinning pieces after they touch down and it'd be perfect!

kurisu628

Aurora Feint > Tris

aaj111

Why does nobody notice that the scoring is broken in this game? For the most part, completing four lines gets you about four times as many points as clearing one. That means that clearing the lines individually grants you no greater reward than clearing them at once. With the multiplier gone, there's no incentive to getting those four-line combos that are the cornerstone of high scoring in the game. That removes a lot of fun and strategy from score competitions, I figure.

ElGouldo