Tetris lessons - by XaeL

XaeL · October 24, 2011, 10:12:27 PM

I'm posting up a video series soon on tetris.. basically lessons from noob level to "pretty good" level...
Each video will aim to be a good intro (i.e. after watching the video players should understand the crap and then go explore the idea on their own/on the forum). Here is the video plan.

Basically there are three parts - tetris, tspin, downstack.

Tetris/Stacking (i.e. basics)
1) Building and completing Tetrises
2) Platforming, Skimming and Filling
3) Increasing speed mechanically

Downstacking (i.e. still basics)
4) Downstack principles (forecasting, terrible moves)
5) Downstack combinations (simple combinations)
6) Downstack - dumping

T-spins (i.e. less basic)
7) T-Spin intro
T-spin basic setups
9) T-spin slightly less basic setups
10) T-spin openings
11) T-spin triples

Putting it together/misc
12) Downstacking and t-spins
13) Large attacks
14) Timing attacks/All in's
15) Sacrifice/Donation

The basic idea will be:
Intro/basics, not-very-in-depth episode
Lots of small tips episode(s)
Misc. episodes

Paradox · October 24, 2011, 10:18:16 PM

sweet

Anonymous · October 24, 2011, 10:20:17 PM

All hail xael. Teach me your ways!

XaeL · October 24, 2011, 10:21:09 PM

I'm also planning on doing game analysis but i dont have any games to analyse!

Alexsweden · October 25, 2011, 01:10:48 AM

Good stuff! - Like your voice

ZeroT · October 25, 2011, 01:47:33 AM

woohoo XeaL

Maii04 · October 25, 2011, 08:06:36 AM

How often do you plan on updating each video? Didnt your other video take you over a year to do?
o.o

meow · October 25, 2011, 08:48:22 AM

nice

damn smurfer
gtfo

Lucho · October 25, 2011, 08:21:29 PM

Good work, man

Corrosive · October 25, 2011, 10:38:32 PM

http://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1869

^
Don't exchange quality pro advice for petty tips. Come be trained by me today and I'll charge half price.

XaeL · October 27, 2011, 06:35:41 PM

Quote from: Maii04
How often do you plan on updating each video? Didnt your other video take you over a year to do?
o.o

probably one a week.
The other video required heavy editing.. this is more.. natural and i just say whats on my mind. if i forget stuff.. i just make another video. Lol.

MarioThePhenom · October 27, 2011, 07:13:07 PM

corrosive is to funny with his tetris lessons:P

this one seems to be pretty solid

XaeL · November 09, 2011, 12:54:45 AM

bump

Shuey · November 09, 2011, 10:43:56 AM

XaeL: I love your videos so far. Very scientific and informative, and easy to mentally digest. I look forward to seeing more .

fishcake · November 10, 2011, 02:50:19 AM

Just watched your first video. It's pretty good. I really need to improve my stacking. My 40L average is 3 minutes.

By the way, what's a smurfer?