Tetris | Game Transfer Phenomena

GTP featured in the Red Bulletin magazine.

May 17, 2023January 6, 2024 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari Magazine, Media, NewsFilm, Tetris

Game Transfer Phenomena was covered in the Red Bulletin magazine regarding the Tetris film on Apple TV+. Read the article on page 80.

Tetris film & Game Transfer Phenomena

April 4, 2023September 29, 2023 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari Gamers' GTP experiences, Mediainterventions Tetris, Interventions videogames, Tetris, Tetris effect

“I played for five minutes, I still see falling blocks in my dreams” The above is a line from the trailer for the “Tetris” movie. Jeffrey Goldsmith, described the Tetris Effect in Wired 1994: The Tetris effect is a biochemical, reductionistic metaphor, if you will, for curiosity, invention, the creative […]

Finding common ground in the research on Game Transfer Phenomena

November 16, 2018November 16, 2018 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari Event, TalkAltered visual perceptions, Harvard Medical School, Hypnagogia, Implicit memory, Tetris, Tetris effect

Playing video games as a novel visuomotor activity has been used in experimental studies by Stickgold et al. (2000) [1], Wamsley et al. (2010) [2] and Kusse, et al. (2012)[3] to understand the continuity between awake and sleep experiences, memory consolidation and learning. These studies have focused on investigating “hypnagogic […]

GTP Adventures- Becoming religious!

October 29, 2015 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari GTP Adventures, GTP cartoonsafter-images, Altered visual perceptions, GTP visual, Hypnagogia, Resident Evil, Tetris

Visualizing or seeing video game images with closed eyes has been one of the most common experiences reported by gamers in the GTP studies to date (1,2). In fact, in a survey with a self-selected sample of over 2,000 gamers, 77% reported such phenomenon (2). Recurrent afterimages of game elements […]

GTP adventures – When the music get stuck in your head

June 30, 2014 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari GTP cartoonsearworms, GTP auditory, Mario Bross, music imagery, Pokemon, Tetris

Some gamers have reported hearing music from the game when lying in bed, which could provoke sleep deprivation. On some occasions the music was so loud that they actually thought it came from the game, causing some of them to stand up and checking out the gaming device. Click here to […]

GTP Adventures- Shopping Tetris style

April 15, 2014 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari GTP cartoonsaltered visual perception, GTP auditory, GTP visual, Tetris

Tetris, happy belated 30th birthday! Click here to visit the collection of GTP adventures.

GTP Adventures – Discussing visual experiences

January 10, 2014November 24, 2018 Dr Angelica Ortiz de Gortari GTP cartoons, ReflectionsGTP visual, Guitar Hero, Recurrent after-images, Stop stigma, Tetris

In this comic, I have tried to portray two ways to interpret GTP. Which one do you think is the best? Maybe this is not your case but which situation do you think can help a gamer who is worried about his/her GTP experiences? Scenario 1 – negative interpretation Scenario 2 […]