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A friend of Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, he was the first clinical psychologist to conduct experiments using the game. [2] He played an important role in the subsequent development and marketing of the game, and a 1999 article in the Forbes magazine credited him for "co-inventing the seminal videogame Tetris". [3]
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov [a] (born April 16, 1955) [1] is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. [2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). [3]
By the early 2000s, Rogers and Pajitnov created The Tetris Company to control the Tetris intellectual property, and to license their rights to game developers who comply with certain standards. [ 3 ] In 2009, Desiree Golden founded a game studio called Xio Interactive, and released a mobile game called Mino based on the gameplay of Tetris. [ 4 ]
The Tetris Company, Inc. (TTC) is the manager and licensor for the Tetris brand to third parties. [1] It is an American company based in Nevada and owned by Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers. [2] The company is the exclusive licensee of Tetris Holding LLC, the company that owns Tetris rights worldwide. [3]
Her father, Henk Rogers, was the video game developer who secured the rights to distribute Tetris on Video game consoles and began to base his businesses in the U.S. She attended Pepperdine University in Los Angeles County, California, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration between 1996 and 2000.
Henk Rogers is a Dutch Indonesian video game designer and entrepreneur. [3] [4] He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distribute the Russian puzzle video game Tetris on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of Bullet-Proof Software (later called Blue Planet Software) and The ...
At age 16 he was one of the original co-developers of the famous video game Tetris: he ported Alexey Pajitnov's original game to the IBM PC architecture and the two later added features to the game. [1] [2]
As “Tetris” celebrates 40 years of falling blocks at the Lucca Comic and Games convention in Italy, Variety sat down with its creator Alexey Pajitnov and the Tetris company’s co-founder Henk ...