Tetris

We all know it. Pretty dope stuff.

Uses SRS rotation, the rotation system users didn't realize they want. Handles wallkicks.

Basically an exact copy of the (amazing) YouTube tutorial by Zigurous. This includes their assets and copypasta Tetromino data.

Current Next Steps

There's a couple things here that's top of mind:

• Continue Refactor
  • Undo ActivePiece stuff
  • Introduce Observer Pattern to GameController
• Board Serialization to file
  • Been working towards this in a big way
  • Connect Save / Load to Protobuf serialization engine
  • Just saving to disk is a good start
• Figure out how to have a UI spanning multiple scenes
  • Give that UI the ability to load/unload different scenes

Goals

There are a bunch of different goals I'm working on for this prototype. Maximum learning and experimentation is top-of-mind, all the while pushing to become a better developer.

Major Verticals

• Completed prototype gameplay of the Core Toy
  • Prototype extensibility and multiple rulesets
• Shared interface with a backend
  • Backend into DB, cache, etc.
  • Admin + Ops
• Metagame

Design Goals

[DONE]

• Load boards with blocks already placed.
  • Requires De/Serialization
  • I'm going hard mode with protobuf serialization
    • Might into gRPC eventually

Detailed Design requirements in Blog/multiboard_tetris_design.md

• Stitch multiple boards together.

  • With dynamic camera, borders, and grid assets, this should be relatively easy to implement

• After clearing arbitrary amount from current board, move to the next board.

• Complete all boards to complete game.

• Add special pieces

  • Bombs that explode the bricks
  • Unstable Tetrominos... also explode :D
  • Laser that explodes some blocks
  • You get the idea

• Metagame considerations

  • Blocks on destruction have chance of becoming rewards
    • They fly up into some rewards buckets
    • Once complete all boards, recieve awards in the bucket

Combining the two ideas makes it about finding entertaining ways to explode the shit out of blocks.

Programming Goals

Large

• Board Editor [DONE]
• Board Serialization (eventually into gRPC?)
• Stitching boards together
• Start thinking about MetaGame
• Rebuild input system for mobile

Small

• Score/Reward
• Scaling Speed on line(s) cleared.

Completed Goals

• Complete Tutorial
• Dynamic Border
• Dynamic Background Grid
• Add proper new peice queue (A bag containing each piece randomly chosen until every piece chosen, then create new bag). "Real" Tetris shouldn't be full random Piece selection.
• Dynamic Camera
• Mutliple Boards

Known Bugs

• Ghost piece shouldn't search from bottom up, it should start from top and search down.
  • If the I piece is the first to spawn, its Ghost will be placed in an incorrect position.
  • The ghost for I in general seems a bit messed up. I think its because its the only piece that is one size high.