Henk Rogers’ real story behind Tetris, the Perfect Game | The DeanBeat

Henk Rogers, one of the grandfathers of gaming, has a new book out, The Perfect Game, and we talked about it in an interview and again in a keynote talk at the Gamescom Latam expo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. More than 131,800 people attended Gamescom Latam, with many of the fans dressed in cosplay. The dashing Rogers was dressed up in his best Tetris outfit, and in Brazil he could still find fans and admirers for a game that was more than 40 years old. Rogers noted that he worked on the script with Tetris cofounder Alexy Pajitnov, and the Hollywood scriptwriters had taken so many liberties with the story behind the Tetris movie that Rogers decided to write his own autobiography. It includes the time of Rogers life before Tetris, during Tetris, and after Tetris. And it has a lot of life lessons for people like game developers to learn from. [Rogers will speak at our upcoming Xsolla Connect/GamesBeat Engage event on June 5 in Los Angeles]. Henk’s daughter Maya Rogers, who took over the Tetr ... Read full article.