Tetris

This project was part of a course I took as part of my undergrad.

What does it do?

This is an unpolished, but playable version of Tetris. The game is controlled using the keyboard:

• left-arrow and right-arrow: move the Tetromino to the left and right respectively.
• down-arrow: move the Tetromino down.
• up-arrow: rotates the Tetromino counter-clockwise.
• space: drops the Tetromino straight down. Shortcut for holding down down-arrow.
• c: puts the Tetromino in storage. If the storage is empty, the next Tetromino is called. If the storage already contains a Tetromino, then the current and the stored Tetromino are swapped.

After finishing a round, the player has the option to save their score in a leaderboard.

Appendix

Terminology

I might be using some terminology that might be new or unclear to people that have never played the game, so I will define any such terms under this heading.

• Line: A horizontal slice of a tetris board, usually contains at least one square.
• Clearing a line: Filling in a line, making it disappear.
• Tetrominos: The basic shapes of Tetris. They are made of different arrangements of squares. See the image below for examples. (Note: Left handed versions of the L and the offset square shape exist as well)