Thread: PongTris

I'm starting a game crossed between pong and tetris.....and would like to know if this name (PongTris) would be copyright infragment. I'm not sure if nintendo owns the name tetris or tet or tris.....I need to know this for my design document.

Yes i would LOVE to see a Tetris clone that has a name that doesnt end in -tris.

Um... HOW IN THE EVER LOVING POOP ARE YOU GONNA COMBINE PONG AND TETRIS???

have the blocks in the shape of the tetris blocks...and play as pong....early idea but that's how i have it set so far

You mean pong? or breakout?

Code:

pong:

  |
  |        o          |
  |                    |
  |                    | 
                       |

or this:

Code:

[][]          []
[][]          []
            [][]

     o
   ____

the second one......and I mean pong

By Geoff Howland: How Do I Make Games?

Something I need to mention is that when you make your Tetris game, you can't call it "Tetris". Tetris is a trademark of the Tetris Company who is owned by Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris. It is his exclusive right to use the name Tetris, and I believe they may have won a lawsuit saying that you cannot make a falling blocks game with the syllable "tris", as it is obviously playing off the popularity of the of the name Tetris.

Edit: BreakoutTris?

1. You just contridicted yourself....first the quote said "Cann't use the tris..." (or something on those lines), then you say BreakoutTris.....??

2. It's not based on breakout, based on the cross-breed of pong and tetris

1. I didn't say you can't use "tris." Geoff Howland said in his article on Gamedev that he "believes" you can't use "tris."

2. You said "the second one" and that is most definitely Breakout, not pong.

Either way, call it what you want. It's your game. I'm looking forward to trying it.

Invincible

I agree...

This should be VERY interesting...

Will it be Console or Win?

Code:

if ( console ){
       
       if( graphics ){
                 cout<<"GRAPHICS!!!";
       }
       else{ 
                  cout<<"TEXT BASED!!!";
}
}

1. I didn't say you can't use "tris." Geoff Howland said in his article on Gamedev that he "believes" you can't use "tris."

Oh.....sorry about that.

2. You said "the second one" and that is most definitely Breakout, not pong.

Then it's like breakout....sorry about that also.....

Either way, call it what you want. It's your game. I'm looking forward to trying it.

Thanks....can u give me ur e-mail address so that I can send you the beta when it's released?

I'm either using Allegro, SDL, or DirectX 8.1 or DX 8.0

Why not just post them in a thread????

Post it to this thread when it's done and I'll be happy to look at it.

Invincible

Or I can upload them onto my website

URL?