Tetris

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I guess backgrounds from Supersonic Ball or perhaps other ones I made could be modified then re-used. Also I tried this game when it was posted secretly and it's quite cool so far. How do you make blocks fall down instantly, though?

[aetios]

Animated backgrounds are definitely possible.I have been thinking about a scoring mechanism, nad I came up with the following:
There's a base line score of current_level*2. If you fill multiple lines at once, you get a +1x multiplier on this base score per line. e.g. if you are level 9 and make a tetris, you get a whopping 18+36+54+72=180 points :0 On top of that if you keep cleaning lines in subsequent turns your base line score goes up by (current_level-1)/3+1 points per turn (current level / 3 rounded up). If you make a tetris, you get a permanent score multiplier bonus of +0.2. Clearing the screen gives you +0.1 score multiplier. Insta-dropping will award you 0.5x the distance dropped in score.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

[novenary]

I guess backgrounds from Supersonic Ball or perhaps other ones I made could be modified then re-used. Also I tried this game when it was posted secretly and it's quite cool so far. How do you make blocks fall down instantly, though?

You don't. It's currently unimplemented.

Animated backgrounds are definitely possible.I have been thinking about a scoring mechanism, nad I came up with the following:
There's a base line score of current_level*2. If you fill multiple lines at once, you get a +1x multiplier on this base score per line. e.g. if you are level 9 and make a tetris, you get a whopping 18+36+54+72=180 points :0 On top of that if you keep cleaning lines in subsequent turns your base line score goes up by (current_level-1)/3+1 points per turn (current level / 3 rounded up). If you make a tetris, you get a permanent score multiplier bonus of +0.2. Clearing the screen gives you +0.1 score multiplier. Insta-dropping will award you 0.5x the distance dropped in score.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Sounds good to me.
I'd make clearing the screen more rewarding though since it's way harder than doing a tetris lol.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

How does one clear the entire screen instantly, though?


I like the ideas otherwise, though. Just make sure that above level 9 you don't get like 300000 pts for each Tetris or something like in the NES tool-assisted speed-run.

[novenary]

Well, there's copying stuff to the screen and actually drawing. The latter requires a lot of calculations, especially with transparency where you need to test every pixel.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Oh I meant clearing the entire screen as in clearing lines during gameplay. I was confused because you can't clear the entire screen instantly with just 1 vertical block. It takes like 4 or 5

[Keoni29]

Does it have mode B? (Clearing a certain amt of lines with a screen filled with random blocks at the beginning)

[aetios]

No, because there's no mode select screen yet I plan to add it, though. It's quite a classic. Anyways I made quite a bit of progress yesterday: I added a scoring system It's not quite finished yet (I still have to add certain situation checks) but it's already very playable.
Download beta 0.0.1 here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64788231/tetris001.tns The version numbers after this will be determined using a 1d4+2d10 dice roll

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I tried last night copy and the score leaves traces behind digits when updated.

[aetios]

Yeah, that's because the screen isn't wiped on update. It only re-draws the tilemap

[novenary]

The version numbers after this will be determined using a 1d4+2d10 dice roll

Haha yes do that. I'm sure you'll beat Firefox/Chrome version numbers really fast.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

By the way, you should really implement Next block feature so we know what block is about to appear, like in other Tetris games

[novenary]

I think it's already implemented but not sure. In the code I mean, no visual output yet.

[aetios]

I think it's already implemented but not sure. In the code I mean, no visual output yet.

This is not entirely true. Sure I can know what block is next up, but I will have to generate 2 bags at a time because eventually I want to give a next 5 blocks preview. I also want to add the ability to put a piece on hold, and I want to add a drop shadow (this will make insta-dropping a lot easier)

[novenary]

Wow that sounds ambitious. At first we were trying to recreate the gameboy classic lol.