Moraff's Tempt-Tris

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Software Diversions, Inc.

Moraffware was formed in the mid 1980's by Steve Moraff. The company quickly became known for its well-made Mahjongg and jigzaw puzzle shareware and freeware games. In addition to puzzle games, the company also developed and published arcade, action and role-playing games. Moraff's Revenge was the company's first 3D dungeon game for the PC. Moraff's PinBall was the first computer game created by Moraffware for IBM's introduction of VGA resolution. The company began developing games for Windows in the 1990s. The company distributed games under the names Moraff Games and MoraffWare, as trademarked labels. Many of the company's freeware and shareware games were distributed through larger channels like AOL, Yahoo! and CNet. In June 2004 the company name was changed to Software Diversions, Inc.

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Moraff’s Tempt-Tris (often indexed as Tempt-Tris or Temp-Tris) is a 1993 shareware DOS puzzle game created by independent developer Steve Moraff under his famous brand Moraffware.
It was released during Steve Moraff's shift from developing eccentric first-person dungeon crawlers (like Moraff's Revenge and Moraff's World) toward puzzle and casual arcade games.
Like many shareware games of the early 1990s, Tempt-Tris was heavily inspired by Alexey Pajitnov’s Tetris, but added unique twists and signature Moraffware design choices:
Geometric blocks drop from the top of the screen into a playfield, and you must rotate and arrange them to clear complete lines before the field fills up.
Rather than sticking strictly to classic tetromino shapes, Moraff added special block types, unpredictable obstacles, and custom power-ups to alter the pacing.
One of Steve Moraff's major selling points in the early 90s was pushing custom graphics drivers. Tempt-Tris supported high-resolution SVGA modes (up to 1024x768 with 256 colors), which made the blocks look unusually crisp for a DOS puzzle game from 1993.
Players could customize block textures, background patterns, drop speeds, and color palettes.