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Eric the Red · May 5th, 2006, 10:56 PM

I'm thinking of making a tetris game for c++ or java. I'm just wondering if you guys think that it would be hard make? Have any of you ever make a tetris game before?

mrynit · May 5th, 2006, 11:21 PM

how much experiance do you have with programming?

do you want the game to be in ASCII or graphics?

code it your self, use libs, script through a program....

nnxion · May 6th, 2006, 3:35 AM

Tetris sucks, so I haven't made it. I think it might be challenging if you want to make it nice, but not too hard.

InfoGeek · May 6th, 2006, 9:24 AM

I made a testris game a few years ago. The code was really crappy and it used an outdated graphics library.

The Dark · May 6th, 2006, 11:27 AM

Go for it, it shouldn't be too hard.

I made a tetris game for DOS in 1989 (just found the source again). It even ran inside my friends TSR popup program "popdos", so you could hotkey into tetris at the touch of a button (and hide it again when the boss comes).

You could specify the random seed when you started the game, so we would play the same game against each other to see who would get the highest score. Wasted far too much time on playing it.

Eric the Red · May 8th, 2006, 1:12 AM

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Originally Posted by The Dark

Go for it, it shouldn't be too hard.

I made a tetris game for DOS in 1989 (just found the source again). It even ran inside my friends TSR popup program "popdos", so you could hotkey into tetris at the touch of a button (and hide it again when the boss comes).

You could specify the random seed when you started the game, so we would play the same game against each other to see who would get the highest score. Wasted far too much time on playing it.

I'm not too familiar with how games were made back then. Did you use c to make the game?

mrynit · May 8th, 2006, 1:14 AM

im guessing BASIC

brownhead · May 8th, 2006, 1:15 AM

I wonder if you could make a tetris game in Batch... certainly be tricky :\

The Dark · May 8th, 2006, 3:32 AM

Yes it was C, 890 lines of code (I just looked), quite a lot of which was in #ifdef's due to handling two different environments (normal DOS and the PopDOS popup program).
Embarrasingly enough, there are only 6 comments in the whole 890 lines, only 3 of which were not pointlessly saying what the next line of code did. Hey, I was young, there would be at least 8 comments if I did it now :p

As a background, PopDOS was a program a friend of mine wrote to allow you to pop up little applets (such as an editor, calculator, or tetris) when you were still in another program under MS-DOS (or PC-DOS or whatever). "Sidekick" was a better known commercial program that did similar things. This was back before Windows 3.0 hit the shelves, so mostly you only did one thing at a time on your computer. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time...

King · May 9th, 2006, 11:22 PM

I did one in Win32, it wasn't too hard. it might be easier to do in java tho.

May 5th, 2006, 10:56 PM	#1
Eric the Red Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 214 Rep Power: 0	Making tetris I'm thinking of making a tetris game for c++ or java. I'm just wondering if you guys think that it would be hard make? Have any of you ever make a tetris game before? __________________ Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

May 5th, 2006, 11:21 PM	#2
mrynit Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: WA, USA Posts: 340 Rep Power: 3	how much experiance do you have with programming? do you want the game to be in ASCII or graphics? code it your self, use libs, script through a program.... __________________ i dont know much about programming but i try to help

May 6th, 2006, 3:35 AM	#3
nnxion Programming Guru Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: elemental plane Posts: 1,429 Rep Power: 5	Tetris sucks, so I haven't made it. I think it might be challenging if you want to make it nice, but not too hard. __________________ "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." -- Socrates

May 6th, 2006, 9:24 AM	#4
InfoGeek Professional Programmer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: India, The great. Posts: 435 Rep Power: 4	I made a testris game a few years ago. The code was really crappy and it used an outdated graphics library. __________________ PFO - My daily dose of technology.

May 8th, 2006, 1:14 AM	#7
mrynit Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: WA, USA Posts: 340 Rep Power: 3	im guessing BASIC __________________ i dont know much about programming but i try to help

May 6th, 2006, 11:27 AM	#5
The Dark Expert Programmer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 873 Rep Power: 4	Go for it, it shouldn't be too hard. I made a tetris game for DOS in 1989 (just found the source again). It even ran inside my friends TSR popup program "popdos", so you could hotkey into tetris at the touch of a button (and hide it again when the boss comes). You could specify the random seed when you started the game, so we would play the same game against each other to see who would get the highest score. Wasted far too much time on playing it.

May 8th, 2006, 1:15 AM	#8
brownhead Programmer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: California Posts: 37 Rep Power: 0	I wonder if you could make a tetris game in Batch... certainly be tricky :\

May 8th, 2006, 3:32 AM	#9
The Dark Expert Programmer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 873 Rep Power: 4	Yes it was C, 890 lines of code (I just looked), quite a lot of which was in #ifdef's due to handling two different environments (normal DOS and the PopDOS popup program). Embarrasingly enough, there are only 6 comments in the whole 890 lines, only 3 of which were not pointlessly saying what the next line of code did. Hey, I was young, there would be at least 8 comments if I did it now :p As a background, PopDOS was a program a friend of mine wrote to allow you to pop up little applets (such as an editor, calculator, or tetris) when you were still in another program under MS-DOS (or PC-DOS or whatever). "Sidekick" was a better known commercial program that did similar things. This was back before Windows 3.0 hit the shelves, so mostly you only did one thing at a time on your computer. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time...

May 9th, 2006, 11:22 PM	#10
King Professional Programmer Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 378 Rep Power: 3	I did one in Win32, it wasn't too hard. it might be easier to do in java tho. __________________ I am Addicted to Linux!

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