Tetris Clone - Assignment 1 - CSC2003S

Description

A clone of the original tetris. Made for my first game development assignment.

Its art-style and gameplay was based on the original tetris and was kept as simplistic as possible.

It uses:

• The libGDX engine.
• The font, Novamono, is used for all on screen text(including the tetris blocks and grid).
• Chiptunes Do Dubstep by TeknoAXE for background music.
• Beep SF and Click SF as sound effects.

Instructions

To Run:

Requires Gradle

Unix based OS: ./gradlew desktop:run

Windows: gradlew.bat desktop:run

To Build:

Requires Gradle

Unix based OS: ./gradlew desktop:dist

Windows: gradlew.bat desktop:dist

The built .jar file will be in desktop/build/libs/

To run it, change to the above directory and run: java -jar desktop-1.0.jar

Controls

Main Menu:

Key	Description
ENTER	Start the game.
H	Displays the controls
C	Clear the highscore list
M	Mute music
N	Mute sound effects
Q	Quits the game.

In-game:

Key	Description
SPACE	Drop the currently controlled block.
LEFT SHIFT	Store the currently active block and replace it with the next block. (Can only be done once per block)
UP ARROW	Rotate the currently active block 90o clockwise.
RIGHT ARROW	Move the currently active block one space to the right.
LEFT ARROW	Move the currently active block one space to the left.
ESCAPE	Pause the game. Push again to unpause.
M	Mute music
N	Mute sound effects
R	Restart the game.
Q	Quits the game.

Gameplay

The gameplay involves the player moving and positioning the various pieces in an attempt to complete rows and avoid the blocks stacking to the top of the play area.

The player starts out with 0 points on level 1. As the completes rows, places pieces (or drops them) they get points. When the points pass level * 1000 the player levels up.

Levelling up increases the gravity which controls the speed of the blocks descent as well as the number of points received for placing a block.

The speed at which the block falls is: 800ms / (gravity * gravityModifier)

The gravityModifier is used to speed up the block when the player push on the DOWN arrow key.

The player can move the blocks left or right and the blocks can be rotated by pushing the UP arrow key.

If the player wishes, a single block can be stored by pushing LEFT SHIFT. If there is already a stored block, the current block and stored block are swapped. Once a player has stored or swapped a block, they can only do it again once they have place their new block. Swapping the block provides a tactical edge as the new block starts at the top of the screen and it allows you to save a piece you think you might need or swap out a useless block.

The player can drop the block from its current position. It will stop when it collides with the floor or another block. The player gets points depending on the height the block drops from, so you get more points by dropping the block instead of letting it fall.

The player receives points when a row is completed, the points gained are calculated as follows: (50 * rowsRemoved). So the more rows completed at once, the more points gained. When a block lands, the player gets 25 points.

After the blocks land, there is a time (the same as the rate at which the block falls) in which the block can be moved.

Finally, once the game is over, if the player has amassed enough points, more than the person with the least points on the high score list, they will be prompted to enter their name. Their score will be recorded and added to the list. The list is saved using the libGDX engine to the local PC so the highscore list is persistent on the current PC.