Todo / Design Doc

• Gamemodes
  • Monomino
    • Idea 1:
      • Inspiration:
        • Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon?
        • General match-3 mechanics
      • Cursor that can swap pieces
      • Generating new pieces
        • Clears generate new pieces, can't top out from anything but garbage?
        • Manual send pieces button?
        • Screen is forced to be full of pieces?
      • Random replace garbage
      • General problem: match-3 is not really that fun in long sessions, and most definitely has a pretty low skill ceiling
    • Idea 2:
      • Inspiration:
        • Stackitect
        • C::Reactris
      • Blocks with special abilities that interact in dynamic ways
        • Rest`ricted placement mechanics
        • Mainipulating the playfield (pushing blocks, creating new blocks, destroying them, etc.)
        • Special clear mechanics (if near X block and Y block, destroy this one)
        • Liquids? (this works in C::Reactris because there's proper tetraminos with this ability, unsure how this would work with monominos)
      • C::Reactris has a concept of weather and a day night cycle, so perhaps a similar global style effect
      • Stackitect has a selection screen that lets them choose which blocks to get next, perhaps something where you manipulate the pieces in your queue
      • General problems:
        • This would be very gimmicky, and I kinda wanna keep that stuff in a polyomino mode/character?
        • This would be either really simple or really complex strategy-wise (there is one correct way to play / essentially random)
        • Too relient on RNG
    • Idea 3:
      • Inspiration:
        • Elementris
        • Tactris
      • Reversed board gravity (pieces come from bottom and go up)
      • Linear gravity
      • Garbage comes from the top and slowly sinks down
        • Garbage will be tiered in how many clears it takes to remove (think Puyo Puyo)
        • Garbage will be generated at a faster rate per level, and steadly take more hits to remove
        • Enemy garbage will be additional to your normal steady garbage
      • Each monomino has a special ability that will clear an area
        • Bomb-type ability that clears garbage in a 5x5 under (over) it
        • Blocking garbage from rising
        • Moving garbage
        • Digging holes through garbage]
      • Minos are activated whenever they touch three other minos
      • General problems:
        • Conveying to the player what each piece does without tutorializing it, the other gamemodes make this pretty easy
        • Limited complexity, for example, in Elementris, a winning strategy is just to spam pieces
          • No rotation, potenially addressable by allowing the player to "aim" the pieces
          • Limited combo or set up potenial
  • Domino
    • Inspiration:
      • Dr. Mario?
      • Puyo Puyo
    • Multicolor pieces that clear based on the color
    • Linear gravity
    • Falling garbage
  • Tromino
    • Inspiration:
      • None (as of yet)
    • Ideas:
      • Color matching? Problem: Too similar to domino, no idea how to make it more interesting
      • Something about manipulating the board instead of your pieces?
        • Pipe Tetris?
  • Tetromino
    • Inspiration:
      • Tetris
    • Guildline rules
      • All Tetrominos
      • Rotation: SRS
      • Lock delay: 0.5s
      • Piece preview
      • Hold box
      • Bag randomizer
      • Levels
      • Garbage
  • Pentomino
    • Inspiration:
      • Pentomino modes in jstris, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and various tetris fangames
    • All non mirrored pentominos
    • [~] Add a new rotation system based on SRS
      • Flipping
      • Look into nullpomino's rotation system editor to fix the bugs, because doing this by hand is painful
    • Garbage
      • Look into which pieces should give spin bonuses
      • Line clears should be initally less, but multiple line clears should be more due to their difficulty
  • Polyomino
    • Inspiration:
      • Puyo Puyo Tetris: Party
      • Tetris Effect Conected: Zone
      • Pac-Attack
    • Special Effects
      • These are obtained via an XP like system, or maybe an ingame currency to give more agency to the player
      • Characters
        • Inspiration:
          • TETR.IO
          • Puyo Puyo Characters
        • In general, things that change gameplay throughout the whole match
        • Something like Hot Wax?
          • Fires would come every X bags, no candle bombs
          • The same wax piece mechanics
          • More fires burning continously on your side would mean more garbage
        • Something that involves player movement on the board
          • Maybe something like Combo Postage?
          • Player could be crushed by blocks, but could do something to clear them
          • Blocks would increase in speed much more rapidly
        • Manipulating your garbage
          • Multi hole garbage
          • Garbage which requires some condition?
        • Something that requires you to both move pieces and a cursor
          • Maybe something like Tetrisweeper?
        • Something like Scrabble Tetris?
          • Not sure if I like this one because i18n
        • Something unlike the other things mentioned
          • Sandtris
          • Soft Body Tetris
      • Active abilities
        • By pressing the [Ability] key, these will be activated
        • Generally these require a charge meter of some sort, the specific action required will depend
        • Zone
        • Filling holes
        • Changes your hold box into a special mino
          • Fairies, removes n lines of garbage
          • Bomb, removes all tiles in an area
          • Sword, clears all minos in a direction
        • Send garbage to opponent but ... to you
          • Double back?
          • Unclearable garbage?
        • Breakout? Like ball and paddle, probably your piece becomes the paddle
    • Allows different players to play different gamemodes against each other, i.e. a duo and a tetra player
    • Players should be able to have loadouts of characters / active abilities
• Features
  • Gravity Modes
    • Naive
    • Sticky
    • [~] Cascade
    • Linear
  • Rotation Modes
    • Normal
    • Cycle
    • Flip
  • Line Clear Modes
    • Width
    • Color match (see Monomino/Domino)
  • Piece Types
    • Solid (normal)
    • Metapiece
    • Special, some unique effect on lock/clear
    • Garbage
      • Normal
      • Unclearable
      • Immovable (see gravity)
  • [~] Actual menus
    • [~] Configurable preferences and keys
      • Controller support
    • i18n
  • Mulitplayer
    • Sending garbage
    • Rollback? Todo, research
    • Elo system
  • Prefrences
    • Soft drop factor
  • Game over
• Mobile and Desktop version