2026-07-15 · designer-study
Inside Alexey Pajitnov's Philosophy — Building Order in a Game That Never Ends
A study of Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, drawn across his own interviews: his philosophy that games are a psychological product, his obsessions with the learning curve and randomness, his openly admitted decade-long failure to crack multiplayer, the dilemmas of intensity and endlessness, and the pentomino influence. Read as a designer who guarded the core and let the surface go.