termtris

About

Termtris runs on UNIX systems and requires an ANSI or VT100-compatible terminal for input and output. It has been tested with a VT420, xterm, rxvt, the Linux console, and kermit running on MS-DOS over a serial link, but it should work on any terminal capable of interpreting ANSI escape sequences for cursor addressing, character set selection, and color attributes.

To run on a terminal other than the controlling terminal, simply specify the device using the -t commandline option.

Termtris also runs on DOS now. It will run on any IBM PC compatible with any graphics card (MDA, CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA).

I always liked the GameBoy tetris best. So I made termtris as close as possible to that version gameplay-wise.

• website: http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/sw/termtris
• source repository: https://github.com/jtsiomb/termtris

Controls

•   `A` or left arrow moves the block left.
•   `D` or right arrow moves the block right.
•   `S` or down arrow drops the block faster.
•   `W` or up arrow rotates the block.
•   enter, tab, or `0` drops the block immediately.
•   `P` pauses and unpauses the game.
•   backspace, or delete starts a new game.
•   `Q` or hitting escape twice, quits immediately.

Additionally on GNU/Linux systems any joystick can be used to control the game. The first available joystick is used automatically, or you can specify a joystick device with the `-j` commandline option.

When using a joystick, even axes are mapped to left/right, Odd axes are mapped to up/down, the first four buttons rotate, and the rest of the buttons pause and unpause.

There is no way to remap the controls without changing the source code at this time.

License

Copyright (C) 2019-2023 John Tsiombikas nuclear@mutantstargoat.com

This program is free software. Feel free to use, modify, and/or redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3, or at your option, any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. See COPYING for details.