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Giant Game of Tetris Created Using 1400 Lights on a Building

A university professor along with his team of specialist created the world’s largest game of Tetris. Thousands of people gathered to view the blown up version on a 29 storey building.

The team used an LED lighting system in a building in Philadelphia to create the game so that it could actually be played. The building is over 400 feet tall and was illuminated by colourful lights which symbolised pieces of the game. The tetris lights itself were controlled by joysticks over the huge 1, 00,000 square foot screen.

The idea came about through an initiative known as Philly Tech Week which is a technology based event that runs for a week every year.

The professor behind the idea is Dr Frank Lee who is a professor at Drexel University he used the same building last year for another huge game known as “Pong” and it secured the Guinness world record for the world’s largest architectural video game display.

There are a few difference between the two games the main one being that the Tetris game used two sides of the building whereas Pong only used one making it twice as large, this alone could grant them another record. The team hacked into the 1,400 LED lights that are embedded I the Cira Centre skyscraper.

Thousands of people wanted to play the game but in order to get the chance players had to enter a lottery for the chance to do so on the building. The game was so advanced that there was two versions of the game a competitive version and the cooperative version. During the competitive version players went head to head against each other on either sides of the building and during the cooperative version players had to work together.

Later, he said that technology was viewed as only being existent for profits, but initiatives like this could focus more on the entertainment aspect. This would make people realize why they loved playing games like Tetris in the first place, according to him.