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About: RubyTet is a tetris variant written by Han Dao. The project aimed to create the most serious clone, but more importantly make money for its developer.

Latest version: 0.1.6

Homepage: http://wiki.kibabase.com/RubyTet

Changes: Quit button allows people to return to the game menu.

Roadmap: Red gem drillers.

Screenie:

==Initial announcement==
After five month of haitus, rubytet emerged cleaner and healthier after eating too much bad code!

Version 0.0.7.1 comes lost a few features and revert to a tetris clone, but the biggest and most dangerous rewrite of its life is now over. Expect to see rapid succession of new, small features in the next few weeks. If all goes well, rubytet will finally evolve into final form as a multiplayer game a month from now.

http://download.kibabase.com/rubytet-0.0.7.1.tar.bz2

In the mean time, the homepage of Rubytet is at http://wiki.kibabase.com/RubyTet

Right now, I am trying to get a working distribution mechanism so that window users don't have jump through so many hoops to try this game.

Edit: fixed link

No screenshots or instructions?

Oh kiba, your marketing is so rough..
fix the link Rubytet -> RubyTet

Rubytet 0.0.8 is now available!


Screenie:



How to play:

Use the arrow keys! Space for complete down. Up for rotating shape, right and left for horizontal movement.


Sorry, there won't be a window executable soon. However, there is a developer who is promising to work a jruby port for rubytet. I guesstimate a month will come by before the guy will have anything.

That looks cleaned up a lot!
Two requests:
-Why don't you put the preview and the current a bit downward that the preview doesn't mess with the score label?
-A frame or a bold line around the game field would look it even more smooth in my opinion

best regards Sauer2

BTW: Are you using RubyGame

Sauer2 {l Wrote}:That looks cleaned up a lot!
Two requests:
-Why don't you put the preview and the current a bit downward that the preview doesn't mess with the score label?
-A frame or a bold line around the game field would look it even more smooth in my opinion

best regards Sauer2

BTW: Are you using RubyGame

I'll take these two requests into account for the next version of rubytet.

Yes, I am using rubygame.

I'll take these two requests into account for the next version of rubytet.

Cool, this makes the game optical perfect IMO.

Is RubyGame faster than PyGame?
I mean, the PyGame docs recommends me not to draw a whole frame, but to use "dirty rectangles" instead due to the poor performance. So you can't make a sidescroller. So I wonder if this is possible with RubyGame.

Sauer2 {l Wrote}:

Is RubyGame faster than PyGame?
I mean, the PyGame docs recommends me not to draw a whole frame, but to use "dirty rectangles" instead due to the poor performance. So you can't make a sidescroller. So I wonder if this is possible with RubyGame.

That's a lie. I wrote a side scroller in python once without any dirty rectangles.

Anyway, rubygame is like pygame, because it mostly use SDL for most of the heavy lifting. So they're plenty fast for what I wanted to do.

OK, not my lie. Maybe the docs are very old. It also says that OpenGL is disabled or should be disabled. Well, let's see, how PyGame 2 will perform.
About the Sidescroller you wrote: Did it ran with an acceptable framerate with more that, let's say 20 Sprites and a bigger Window that 640x480?

Oh, and I'm curios about your PC's specs. Also, would you expect your game to run on a 400+ mhz ARM CPU ?
Just want to get a picture, you know?

Sauer2 {l Wrote}:OK, not my lie. Maybe the docs are very old. It also says that OpenGL is disabled or should be disabled. Well, let's see, how PyGame 2 will perform.
About the Sidescroller you wrote: Did it ran with an acceptable framerate with more that, let's say 20 Sprites and a bigger Window that 640x480?

Something like that.

Sauer2 {l Wrote}:Oh, and I'm curios about your PC's specs. Also, would you expect your game to run on a 400+ mhz ARM CPU ?
Just want to get a picture, you know?

It run fine on a low end dual core computer with 1 GB of RAM.

Thanks!
Good to know the old Pygame docs are a lie. Like the spoon.

Rubytet 0.0.9 is now available for download!

Homepage:

http://wiki.kibabase.com/RubyTet

New screenie:



Changes:

-Add back the yellow gem feature. Yellow gem block scoring points.
-Add comestic border.
-Change the positions of the current shape and next shape.

That was fast.

I would recommend that you edit your first post with all your updates and then make a new post with a short summary so we all know it has been updated. This way new people coming to this thread will see the current form of the game without having to read the whole thing.

Looking good, by the way.

New release, version 0.1.0 for RubyTet is now available.

New screenie:



Changes: A primitive theme management system is added along with a primitive UI to switch between themes.

New release, version 0.1.1 for RubyTet is now available.

No screenie this time due to no noticeable graphical changes.

Changes: Inability to load new default theme in title mode fixed. Red gem now eliminate yellow gem when doing final landing.

New release, version 0.1.2 for RubyTet is now available.

Screenie:

http://wiki.kibabase.com/images/8/86/Rubytet-0.1.2.png

Changes: Blocks are now themed.

I'm looking at the screenshot and I'm getting ideas to improve the interface, but then I don't feel like using my time on it, because I'm sure it will serve nobody, as tetris games are boring (at least I believe that).

So instead I wonder: how to make tetris an interesting game? Powerups perhaps? Oh I don't know.

qubodup {l Wrote}:I'm looking at the screenshot and I'm getting ideas to improve the interface, but then I don't feel like using my time on it, because I'm sure it will serve nobody, as tetris games are boring (at least I believe that).

The UI are an important polish to any game. I welcome the feedback.

qubodup {l Wrote}:So instead I wonder: how to make tetris an interesting game? Powerups perhaps? Oh I don't know.

I am way ahead of you and it doesn't involve "power-up". However, the game design I have in mind necessary involve online play and an infrastructure to support it. I am working on it in the "network" branch but it is taking a long time to develop it.

New release, version 0.1.3 for RubyTet is now available.

Screenie: No visible changes this time.

Change: It is now possible to cycle backward through shape rotation via the end key, which is presumed to be above the up arrow key.

New release, version 0.1.4 for RubyTet is now available.

Screenie:

Change: Upgraded to a more fanciful version of the configuration menu.

New release, version 0.1.5 for RubyTet is now available.

Screenie: Nothing new that can be detected visually.

Change: Yellow gems can now crush red gem. Very minor gameplay change.

New release, version 0.1.6 for RubyTet is now available.

Screenie:



Change: Quit button that allow you to return to the game menu.