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Cool! I made a demo playable in the browser: https://repl.it/@amasad/tinytetris Or run it directly here: https://tinytetris.amasad.repl.run/
Is it just me? I can't make any operations, and tetrominoes did not drop from center (horizontally), but kind of from random position
And yes, the starting position of new pieces looks random.
As it happens, though, I had a university assignment due today to write a WebGL falling-triomino game:
Start game: space
Rotate: a/z s/x d/c
Move: arrows
Drop: space
On my Mac I can just type: 'emacs -f tetris'
There used to be a playable Tetris in the favicon, which I found from HN[1], but it looks like the website[2] is dead now :( [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3873623 [2] http://favris.info/
Probably because of how vocal Tetris's IP lawyers are.
amazing op! tetris is one of those game on my need to implement list and never actually finished an implementation :)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copyright does not protect game mechanics and rules. In Tetris v. Xio , they successfully argued that the game infringed on trade dress. They claimed that the pieces looked like ones in other games, which in my view is impossible not to infringe on since there have been hundreds of Tetris games with every type of piece design possible. They claimed that they used tetrominos, and the playfield was twice as high as it…
Xio did, in fact, attempt to point out that the shapes of the tetrominos are functional elements and not subject to trade dress. The judge disagreed. The judge also said that while copyright does not protect the abstract concept of a falling block game, he specifically cited the shapes of the blocks and the playfield size as copyrightable. It's settled U.S. case law. If you develop a clone of Tetris, you are infringi…
Clearly the judge disagreed that these elements weren't protectable, but do you agree? I'm say that I don't agree with the judge. Changing the the kind of polyominoes will make the game easier or harder (imagine how easy it would be with dominoes). Changing the playfield dimensions also changes the difficulty: a lower ceiling as well as a narrower well makes it much more difficult to survive.
Fascinating! Are there any easy to follow tutorial on how to manipulate pixel blocks (I wonder what the right term is) inside terminals?
If you're referring to the game pieces, the creater probably just used these Unicode characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
It's one of only two printw()s in the code, and the screenshot shows the result quite clearly.
Cool! I made a demo playable in the browser: https://repl.it/@amasad/tinytetris Or run it directly here: https://tinytetris.amasad.repl.run/