Tetris

By: Sam Chen, Weijia Ma, James Yang, Qimeng Yu

This is the game of Tetris. Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle game originally designed by Alexey Pajitnov. In Tetris, several types of blocks, called Tetriminos, fall from the top of the screen and the user tries to fill an entire row of Tetriminos. The objective of the game is to fill and clear as many rows as possible before the Tetriminos fill up the screen. Note that hover text are present for each button in the starting screen and the ending screen but they take a few seconds to appear.

Game controls:

UP rotates the Tetrimino counterclockwise

DOWN speeds up the Tetrimino's movement down

LEFT shifts the Tetrimino left

RIGHT shifts the Tetrimino right

SPACE drops the Tetrimino all the way to the bottom

Run Tetris.java to execute the game.

This game follows the MVC paradigm. There are several display classes that communicate to the controller class which in turn modifies the model classes. The model contains the underlying game logic of Tetris and controls the attributes of each Tetrimino. The view contains the graphical elements of the game and the controller mediates between the view and the model.

KNOWN BUGS: Sometimes if there is a overhanging Tetrimino and you try to rotate the currently falling Tetrimino underneath it, it will jump to the top of the overhanging Tetrimino. This rarely occurs. In addition, if the game is played for an extended period of time, it might quit on its own.