SETTRIS

Ryan George Style Pitch Meeting:
The setting is two hundred feet beneath the ocean surface inside a glowing glass dome constructed entirely out of ancient, neon-blue coral reefs. Phosphorescent jellyfish drift lazily past the walls, casting a surreal late-90s synth-wave glow over everything, while glowing deep-sea anemones pulse in hypnotic magenta and cyan hues. Instead of chairs, executive swivel-thrones float effortlessly inside massive, pressurized bubbles. Off to the side, a band of hermit crabs wearing tiny sunglasses is playing a continuous, high-energy synth-bass groove using hollow seashell drums. The air is thick with the acoustic echoes of aquatic synth-house chimes, and floating kelp banners display glowing neon text reading "Welcome to the Blue-Hue Grid Zone."
Publisher: So, you have a cozy block-stacking aquatic puzzle game with cheerful sea creatures for me?
Game Designer: Yes, sir, I do! It is called SETTRIS, where you rotate, flip, and fit colorful sea-block shapes into static empty puzzle grids across 80 full stages until the whole board clears!
(The Game Designer aggressively twerks in his full heavy-duty deep-sea scuba suit, flippers loudly slapping against the glass floor in perfect sync with the synth beat.)
Publisher: (Staring blankly, entirely flipper-gasted) ...Why are your hips moving like that in twenty pounds of pressurized rubber?
Game Designer: Immersion! And it oxygenates the ideas!
Sebastian: (Bursting into song, waving his tiny baton furiously at the crab band)
♪ Under the sea! Under the sea! ♪
♪ Where hips are shaking, and rubber is breaking, take it from me! ♪
Flounder: (Dashing around in a complete circle, hyperventilating) Ariel, why is the human in the rubber suit doing that with his rear end?! Is it a defense mechanism?! Are we in danger?!
Ariel: (Combing her hair with an oversized fork, breaking into melody)
♪ Look at this suit, isn't it neat? ♪
♪ Wouldn't you think he's the guy who twerks... EVERYTHING? ♪
♪ I've got block pieces and shapes galore... eighty whole stages? He's got eighty and more! ♪
Scuttle: (Standing on a podium in a tiny tailored suit, squinting at kelp) According to my expert human analysis, that move is called 'The Aquatic Aerobic Brain-Storm'! It increases intelligence by forty percent!
Publisher: I am utterly flipper-gasted, but eighty relaxing puzzle stages with smooth Sega Dreamcast-style arcade house music? Wow wow wow. Wow.
Game Designer: Exactly! You get a vibrant, all-blue-hue aesthetic with bright, dynamic candy-colored blocks popping against a dull gray-and-black static board, surrounded by constant undersea coral backdrops! And the sound effects? Every flip, rotation, and placement hits with little retro arcade blips, accompanied by a mix of upbeat and serene ambient tracks!
Publisher: Oh, retro blips and serene tracks are tight! What about the gameplay mechanics?
Game Designer: You get Stage Mode with static barrier blocks and special color-matching square requirements, plus a competitive Time Attack Mode with global leaderboards across 3-block, 4-block, and 5-block modes! Super easy, barely an inconvenience!
Publisher: Wait, what if you place a block completely wrong and get stuck in a corner?
Game Designer: You just pick the pieces right back up or wipe the whole board clean with zero penalty!
Publisher: Oh, resetting the board with zero penalty is tight! But tell me, is there a complex, tragic backstory about why these shapes fill the ocean floor?
Game Designer: No! You solve the puzzles purely because of... good vibes!
Publisher: Good vibes as a primary motivation?
Game Designer: It's the highest form of game design, sir!
(The Game Designer drops into an even lower, hyper-frequency twerk, flippers squeaking with cosmic vibrations against the floor.)
Publisher: You're still doing it! The lower you go, the more flipper-gasted I become. How are your knees surviving this?!
Game Designer: Pure aquatic passion, sir!
Sebastian: (Singing dramatically to the publisher)
♪ There you see him, twerking across the floor... ♪
♪ He don't say much, but his core is sore! ♪
♪ Go on and flip the blocks, kiss the stress goodbye... ♪
♪ Sha-la-la-la-la-la, my oh my, looks like the suit's too tight! ♪
Scuttle: (Singing off-key while taking notes on damp kelp)
♪ Look at those blocks, fitting so square! ♪
♪ No rushing clocks in main mode, no worries or care! ♪
Publisher: Wow, no timers in main Stage Mode, no combat, no RPG leveling, and no crafting?
Game Designer: None at all! Just radiant colors, clear water, and turtles!
Ariel: (Gasping with delight) Turtles! Oh, they are so polite!
Flounder: Okay, turtles are safe. I'm feeling a little less terrified now.
Publisher: People love turtles! Nobody dislikes turtles!
(The Game Designer twerks with such absurd, unhinged velocity that friction creates localized underwater lightning. A blinding beam of rainbow light shoots out of the floor.)
(CAPTAIN PLANET materializes mid-air, floating in full green-mullet glory.)
Captain Planet: BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED, I AM CAPTAIN PLANET! ...Wait, why am I two hundred feet underwater? And why is a man in a scuba suit generating atmospheric energy with his glutes?!
Game Designer: We summoned you with eco-friendly block-puzzling and pure gluteal energy, sir!
Publisher: Whoops!
Game Designer: Whoopsie!
Captain Planet: A clean, stress-free puzzle game with retro tunes and zero ocean waste? I'm staying! I am officially joining this game pitch!
Publisher: A very unexpected, permanent 90s superhero cameo!
Game Designer: A very majestic co-presenter!
Captain Planet: That's right! Protecting the environment includes promoting low-stress, non-toxic video games! The power is yours!
Publisher: Does Captain Planet get a percentage of our revenue?
Game Designer: He only accepts environmental goodwill and pristine coral reefs!
Publisher: Oh, environmental goodwill is tight!
Publisher: So let me get this straight: we’re releasing an 80-stage retro-vibed puzzle game with zero stress?
Game Designer: That’s what we’re going with! It's method game design—if the game takes place underwater, the ideas have to come from underwater!
Publisher: That is definitely not a real development philosophy, and your continuous twerking is deeply confusing, but with Captain Planet on board, I am entirely sold!
Game Designer: Excellent! Now if you'll excuse me, I legally cannot stop twerking until this game reaches one million wishlists or my suit completely dissolves into sea foam!
Publisher: That sounds like a severe medical concern, but as long as the Steam page is up, fair enough!
Game Designer: My core has achieved complete, irreversible, eternal momentum!
Publisher: Are we technically breaking several laws of marine biology right now?
Game Designer: Absolutely!
Publisher: Incredible!
Game Designer: I can feel the retro arcade beats vibrating directly through my scuba mask!
Publisher: That sounds alarming!
Game Designer: Is it possible I'm actually twerking at quantum speeds right now?
Publisher: It seems entirely likely!
Game Designer: Should I attempt a backflip in full scuba gear to celebrate?
Publisher: Please do not risk our underwater structural integrity!
Publisher: Well, okay then!
Game Designer: Great!
Captain Planet: (Posing heroically alongside the twerking designer) Remember, gamers: keep your oceans clean and your puzzle grids filled!
Sebastian: (Screaming over the synth music as the whole group joins in)
♪ Poor unfortunate souls! So stressed and blue! ♪
♪ They need a game to clear their mind, and SETTRIS comes through! ♪
♪ Bring us home, boys! Triple beat! ♪
(The hermit crab band strikes a massive final chord. Ariel claps, Scuttle rolls up the kelp transcript with a polite bow, Flounder finally stops trembling, and Captain Planet high-fives the Game Designer as he twerks effortlessly into the sunset.)

i love this game
i love its music
if only it was longer