jferard/juliatris

A Tetris clone in Julia/Qt

JuliaTris

Copyright (C) 2021 J. Férard https://github.com/jferard

A Tetris clone in Julia/Qt under GPLv3

Summary

I wanted to learn a bit of Julia and a bit of Qt. So I wrote this little Tetris clone.

$ julia --project src/JuliaTris.jl 

Screenshot:

Game

I added two modes to the classic "Type A" (unlimited) and "Type B" (25 lines) modes:

• "Touch ground": one tetromino must touch the ground despite the garbage blocks present at the beginning
• "Cleaner": same as "Touch ground", but the game ends when the height is less or equal to one.

About Julia

I won't write another blog post about Julia. Just a few remarks (this is my first program in Julia):

• arrays and matrix starting at 1 are not a gift you want to place a tertromino on the game board. If tetromino_start_x is the x of the tetromino and cur_x the pos of the current block inside the tetromino, then block_x = tetromino_start_x + cur_x - 1 (in any other language: block_x = tetromino_start_x + cur_x).
• I was suprised by the amount of runtime errors. My IDE (IntelliJ) did not provide warnings about thing as simple as the incorrect number of call arguments. Hence, programming was unusually tedious.
• Multiple dispatch is really (I mean: really) convenient.

About Qt

Just a one remark (this is my first program in Qt):

• I didn't know that QML was like JavaScript: there's almost no learning curve.
• QtQuick was easy to use.

juliatris's Issues

Edge case in board

Step 1:

  xxx
ooooxooo
oo   o o

Step 2 should be:

ooxxxo o

Not:

  xxx  
oo   o o

Missing "return to main menu"

ESC!!!

Improve high scores

There should be one or more high score(s) per game type.