The geometric blocks of 1980s video game Tetris are replaced by Soviet-era apartment buildings in Tower Block Tetris, a mobile game by Lithuanian designer Lukas Valiauga.
The objective of Tetris is to align the blocks that fall down the screen, called Tetriminos, into lines of 10 without gaps.
In Valiauga's Tower Block Tetris, prefabricated concrete housing blocks are used in place of the of the traditional Tetriminos, in reference to the socialist modernist housing estates built across the Eastern Bloc in the mid-20th century.

"The game is a playful tribute to a not so playful reality of monotonous and bleak cityscapes populated by tower blocks from a bygone era," said Pajitnov.
"Very specific for Eastern Europe but evident everywhere else too, these relic tower blocks usually mark failed social programmes and neighbourhoods planned as clumsily as some failed building block game," he continued. "Playing on a visual metaphor of tower blocks being actual blocks in a Tetris-style game invites the player to take a different and a more playful look into the architectural phenomena that still surrounds us."

The popular tile-matching puzzle video game was originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984.
Valiauga decided to upgrade the game in an attempt to highlight how European cityscapes are changing and to create a more engaging interaction with the topic.
He suggests that the game could be developed to i...