trevarj/gdotris

Guile Scheme implementation of dotris - Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024

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gdotris is a clone of the popular Tetris clone, dotris, written by me for the Guile Scheme programming language for the Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024.

At the time of writing this, this is my largest Guile program. The goal of this project was to explore Guile Scheme and learn about the ecosystem around it, in hopes that I will be able to actually write something useful in it one day.

This version will be full of bugs and not be as feature complete or efficient (I already notice a small performance difference compared to the C version), so if you really like the game and want to have it installed on your computer, please see the original version.

Requirements

• A terminal emulator. For the best experience, use one that overrides the font's braille characters, like Kitty, and also can enlarge the font size, since the braille dots are tiny.
• Guile 3.0.9
• guile-ncurses

Installation

Arch

$ sudo pacman -S guile guile-ncurses

Guix

guix shell -m manifest.scm -- ./gdotris.scm

How To Play

Simply run the script using:

$ ./gdotris.scm

Controls

Key	Description
Left Arrow or a	Move left
Right Arrowor d	Move right
Up Arrow or w	Rotate clockwise
Down Arrowor s	Soft drop (move down)
Spacebar	Hard drop
C	Hold Tetrimino / Restore Held
Q	Quit game
R	Restart game