Feedback / Contact

I welcome feedback and constructive criticism, as I'd like to make this guide as comprehensive and accurate as possible. In particular, I'm interested to know:

• Do you know of any stackers I can add a section for?
• Do you know of any additional links (sources, resources, tools, or showcases) I can add to any of the sections?
• Have I miscredited any of the included sources?
• Are there any factual errors that need correcting?
• Are there more mechanics and techniques I can add to existing sections?
• Is there anything I can explain better?
• Are you experiencing any technical issues on this page?
  • Particularly following the recent navigation rework

If you'd like to discuss this guide with me or give feedback such as that listed above, you can message me on Discord (my username is "dunspixel", unsurprisingly). I'll implement useful feedback and give credit even if I don't respond directly - please don't take it personally if my executive dysfunction prevents me from communicating.

If you just want to report a problem with the guide, you can raise an issue on the GitHub repo linked at the bottom of the page.

Stacker Profiles

Here are some links to my profiles for various stacker games, listed in alphabetical order. This includes some games not featured in this guide.

• ASC
• Jstris
• King of Stackers
  • Despite having an account, I haven't actually played this one yet
• Nuketris
  • As of writing, my best Worm is 3:59.888! Unfortunately, replays seem to be broken.
• TETR.IO
• Worldwide Combos

Random Ramblings

This isn't really part of the guide, but I like rambling. Maybe you'll find some of it interesting.

Tetris Effect is not a rhythm game. Rather, you are a rhythm game which Tetris Effect plays perfectly. Tetris Effect has exactly one rhythm-based game mechanic and it requires you to be dead in Connected mode to utilise it.

"Tetris Attack" is not a Tetris game. It's not even a stacker game. It's a Panel de Pon game that was renamed for marketing purposes. I will refer to this game as Yoshi no Panepon and you cannot convince me to do otherwise. With that said, I do think it's a really good game.

On the topic of match-3 games, I grew up during a time when they were actually good. I wish the genre never got killed by a certain game released in 2012. If you ever look at a match-3 game and think "oh, it's just another match-3, I hate these games", I completely understand why. However, I highly recommend playing a game from the original Bejeweled trilogy (especially 3), its good spin-offs (Twist or the desktop version of Blitz), or any Panel de Pon/Puzzle League game. There are also some fan games made by the Bejeweled community, though I haven't got round to playing them yet. The match-3 genre is actually really fun!

My main in Puyo Puyo (and the PPT games) is Draco, who seems to be a popular choice among people who like to break Tetris games. My second favourite character is Ally, who I share my actual name with. As for the Tetris side of the PPT cast, you can probably guess who my favourite is.

My mind is blown by the fact Tetris 64's rotation system exists and it's shocking to me how so few people know about it. With techniques only seen in Tetris-like stacker games to this day, Tetris 64 was years ahead of its time. Tetris Stardust is even more mind-blowing, but its obscurity is much less surprising. I wish the O-Spins and Spin Rank mechanics from Tetris Stardust could return in a new Tetris game.

What's your favourite O-piece rotation? Mine's the O-Fin from Techmino! You can perform this by transforming an O-piece into a T-piece, then clearing a Fin TSD with it. It registers as an O-Spin Double!

I'd love to see or even create a rotation system where you can fin every piece.

What if there was a stacker that lets you pick a rotation system loadout and swap them out on the fly while playing? I can see a mechanic like that adding a great deal of depth.

I often wonder, how many mainline Tetris games are there, and which ones count as mainline?

I'm not the only one who noticed there are a disproportionately large number of trans people in some of the weirder niches of the Tetris community, right? As a trans person (and the author of an extremely long and detailed guide about O-piece rotations) myself, I wonder what it is that draws us to the obscure mechanics in Tetris games.

This guide is the most autistic thing I've ever written. I have been studying O-piece rotations for several months, with the bulk of this guide taking about 3-4 months to write. May this hyperfixation continue to bring me dopamine.

I like purple a normal amount, as I'm sure you can tell. It's much like my love for rotating O-pieces, which is also perfectly normal.

My blood type is O. Whenever I make my skirt go spinny, I become a living O-Spin!

If you ever think you're useless, know that there's a huge guide about how to rotate the square in Tetris. No matter what you may think about yourself, you are good for something even if you don't know it yet. I hope you can find it one day.

No O-Spins for transphobes, who are obviously exempt from the above sentiment due to them actually being as useless as some memes falsely depict O-piece rotations.

Trans rights are human rights! Here are some flags I made with my playfield code and a few extra classes! (I'm all of these btw)