Funny little tas i made showing off the pause manipulation in the original Tetris!
FCEUX 2.4.0
To show newcomers thats it isnt as hard as they may first think
How could you do this at home?
Guess the frames and keep trying until you get the piece you so wish!
This is also my first submitted TAS and i am very proud of it!
SCREANSHOTS
I have to say, I absolutely love and agree with the sentiment of showcasing that TASing isn't as hard as it appears to be! Tetris is a great game to illustrate that point, too, containing easy-to-grasp manipulation with very obvious results. As pointed out in the
submission thread, this manipulation has been used for incredible results across every NES Tetris run, particularly our
currently published playaround. The only issue here is that this run is competing with that playaround. I know that wasn't your intention, but since this run was submitted for consideration to be published, it unfortunately has to compete anyway. Obviously, this issue is on us and not on you, and I apologize for the site currently operating in that way, but I'm very happy to say that we've been doing a lot of work to correct that as of late.
In the short term, I feel that we could benefit from more upfront promotion of the
forum and
userfiles as ways of sharing and showcasing TASes. Over my 15 years of having been around this site, I've noticed that we really don't seem to retain newcomers all that well. The submission process is definitely the central feature of TASvideos, and naturally the most active, so it makes sense that newcomers are immediately drawn to it. They'll often come in and submit their very first TAS effort, it'll be scrutinized and judged far more strictly than they're expecting, and it drives them away from the site, possibly furthering us having a negative, elitist reputation. The actual
submission page doesn't do much to explain how we operate, and the most prominent link there is to the
Submission Instructions... Which I have completely overhauled while judging this movie, as a lot of it was over a decade out of date.
In the long term, we've recently started doing some work on
changing how we handle submissions like these, as well as
updating and changing our submission guidelines, with the goals of widening our content base by removing our often arbitrary restrictions and simplifying the submission process, especially for Judges like myself and newcomers like yourself. We're also less than three weeks away (at the time of writing) from transitioning over to the new site, where a lot of these potential changes are going to be a lot easier to implement!
All of my usual waxing poetic about the site aside, I have a few suggestions for how to improve this sort of showcase:
1. Definitely study our other published runs, particularly their inputs: There are other, faster ways to manipulate pieces!
2. The published playaround creates a unique and difficult pattern. See if you can make something more impressive than that.
3. A proper playaround would ideally show off a lot of things, more than just what you did or even what the published run did. Maybe combine the two concepts and add a bit of extra time - Something around 4-5 minutes could work, assuming there's great variety in it.
You made a good first attempt, now it's time to go back in and make it better, as is the nature of TASing as an artform. Good luck!
