Random Time! - Playing Tetris for a world record and as a performance art piece

People try to grab world records in games every single day. They pour tons of hours into learning the ins and outs of a title, trying their best to squeeze out a few more points in the grand scheme of things. That's certainly entertaining to watch, but one gamer going for a world record is trying to add some subtext to his mission.

Rutherford Chang has the second-highest score in Tetris for the Game Boy. He's been trying to grab the top spot and he's going to do so again via live-stream. There's more to it than that, though. Chang is using the live-stream attempt as a bit of performance art. He says his mission to get the top Tetris score is a metaphor for people in the work place that do the same repetitive tasks day in and day out, hoping for something better at the other end. When he puts it like that, the whole attempt sounds quite depressing!

“Eventually they (the Tetris pieces) fall so fast that you can’t keep up and you die. You can’t ever beat the game. It’s about squeezing in as much perfection as possible in this limited time before your inevitable death.”

Well, hopefully Chang will reach his high score dreams and make the entire performance art experience a bit more enjoyable!