QUADRIS

The game of Quadris is played on a 15x11 (row x column) using tetrominoes, similarlry to Tetris, except blocks do not fall down automatically (ie the game is static). 3 additional rows are at the top of the board to give room for the initial positioned piece to rotate and move.

This project is concerned with implementing this game in C++ using GTKmm library for the UI and Makefiles to manage the build tree.

There are 5 levels that the user can toggle between while playing the game:

• Level 0: blocks are generated via a sequence.txt file
• Level 1: blocks are generated randomly, with nicer weightings
• Level 2: blocks are generated randomly, with harsher weightings
• Level 3: blocks are generated randomly and drop 1 block after any user move
• Level 4: all rules of level 3, plus random blocks are generated every few turns and automatically placed
• Level 5: similar to level 2, with a twist of 3 additional, complex shaped blocks has been introduced

Commands:

The user has the following text inputs to enter into the command line to play:

• left, right, down: move the current block by 1 block shift
• clockwise/counterclockwise: rotate the current block
• drop: places the current block in the lowest position, ending the turn
• levelup/leveldown: increment/decrement the current level
• restart: restarts the current game
• rename [previous command name] [new command name] The command interpreter accepts unique prefixes of any command, and multipliers at the beginning of the command name.

Command Arguments

• -seed xxx: set a random seed so the random levels will act 'random'
• -text: run the program using only the text-based ui

Scoring:

Points are earned from removing blocks from the board via row eliminations, speicifically, points are earned for row eliminations, and extra points are earned when all components of a tetronimo is eliminated. The higher the level, the higher the rewards.

Getting Started

Ensure that you have the necessary dependencies installed. At the minimum the latest version of GTKmm and g++ should be installed. To compile the project, execute the command make, followed by ./quadris [any command line arguments] to execute the app.