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"It kinda disincentivizes me from sharing progress when there are slop ghouls around every corner."
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Yesterday, game developer and technical artist Freya Holmér shared a glimpse at a side-project she'd been toying with: a rotational twist on Tetris, where dropping a piece into place rotates the screen 90 degrees towards the side where your blocks landed. "Been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype," she said. "Is this anything?"
The response confirmed that it was, indeed, something. At time of writing, the clip of Holmér's prototype has already been viewed on X more than 2 million times, while Bluesky users insist they "need to spend hours playing this." There's something mesmerizing about it: The brain yearns to rotate blocks that rotate other blocks. Hell, even Tim Schafer thinks it looks sick.It took less than a day for someone to post a knockoff.
been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototypeis this anything pic.twitter.com/VKo1Qq4fWuMarch 17, 2026
"Someone already vibecoded (a bad clone of) this and shared it online because we live in the worst timeline," Holmér said today on Bluesky. "Y'know it kinda disincentivizes me from sharing progress when there are slop ghouls around every corner, AI or otherwise."
Sure enough, I confirmed that, nestled amongst the clip's enthusiastic responses on X, there's a reply from a self-described "efficient novelty maxing generalist" insisting that "this can be built into a game by tomorrow." And just four hours and 39 minutes after Holmér's post, that user returned with a clip of their own rotating Tetris, freshly and joylessly extruded from the AI spigot.
In the video, which you can chase down in the replies yourself if you really think it's worth giving your traffic, the vibecoder casually admits that "someone showed a design of a rotating Tetris, and knowing how AI works and such, I was like, 'okay, it'll probably do something really interesting,' and it did. So."
Shameless videogame knockoffs are a tale as old as time, of course; once something crosses a critical threshold of attention, it's inevitable that clones will flood the iOS app store soon afterwards in a mad rush to capitalize on the zeitgeist. Since 2020, we've seen it happen to Lethal Company, Among Us, Wordle, and Unpacking—just to name a few.
But Holmér told PC Gamer that AI coding tools are accele...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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Yesterday, game developer and technical artist Freya Holmér shared a glimpse at a side-project she'd been toying with: a rotational twist on Tetris, where dropping a piece into place rotates the screen 90 degrees towards the side where your blocks landed. "Been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype," she said. "Is this anything?"
The response confirmed that it was, indeed, something. At time of writing, the clip of Holmér's prototype has already been viewed on X more than 2 million times, while Bluesky users insist they "need to spend hours playing this." There's something mesmerizing about it: The brain yearns to rotate blocks that rotate other blocks. Hell, even Tim Schafer thinks it looks sick.It took less than a day for someone to post a knockoff.
been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototypeis this anything pic.twitter.com/VKo1Qq4fWuMarch 17, 2026
"Someone already vibecoded (a bad clone of) this and shared it online because we live in the worst timeline," Holmér said today on Bluesky. "Y'know it kinda disincentivizes me from sharing progress when there are slop ghouls around every corner, AI or otherwise."
Sure enough, I confirmed that, nestled amongst the clip's enthusiastic responses on X, there's a reply from a self-described "efficient novelty maxing generalist" insisting that "this can be built into a game by tomorrow." And just four hours and 39 minutes after Holmér's post, that user returned with a clip of their own rotating Tetris, freshly and joylessly extruded from the AI spigot.
In the video, which you can chase down in the replies yourself if you really think it's worth giving your traffic, the vibecoder casually admits that "someone showed a design of a rotating Tetris, and knowing how AI works and such, I was like, 'okay, it'll probably do something really interesting,' and it did. So."
Shameless videogame knockoffs are a tale as old as time, of course; once something crosses a critical threshold of attention, it's inevitable that clones will flood the iOS app store soon afterwards in a mad rush to capitalize on the zeitgeist. Since 2020, we've seen it happen to Lethal Company, Among Us, Wordle, and Unpacking—just to name a few.
But Holmér told PC Gamer that AI coding tools are accele...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
What do you think about this?