Blocks (Tetris clone)

Technology:

• Lua
• Love2D

About the project:

This is a recreation of tetris, made with Lua programming language and Love2D which is a free, open-source and multi-platform framework for making 2D games. This game was my final project for CS50's Introduction to Game Development.

How to run:

Windows

• Download the appropriate release file
• Unzip the file and run blocks.exe

Linux

• First you must make sure that you have Love2D installed. Love2D is commonly available as part of many distributions repositories. On Debian-based systems you can install it with:

sudo apt install love

• Download the appropriate release file
• Double click the .love file to run the game. If this doesnt work, right-click the file with your mouse and select Open with > LOVE or open a terminal in the .love file directory and type love .

Controls:

• Control with arrow keys:
  • UP - rotate block
  • DOWN - drop block
  • LEFT/RIGHT - move block

Some of the code features:

• State machine
• OOP design
• Tilesets

Credits:

• timer.lua from Knife ("A collection of useful micro-modules for Lua")
• class.lua from hump ("LÖVE Helper Utilities for Massive Progression")
• push.lua from push ("A simple resolution-handling library for LÖVE")