firstrow / golang-tetris

A Tetris game written in Go using the faiface/pixel 2D game engine.

Golang Tetris

This is my first experience writing games in Golang. I stumbled upon the 2D game library at github.com/faiface/pixel and wanted to try it out. After using it for this game, I have to admit that the library is very well designed and easy to use. Anyone interested in creating games should definitely check it out.

This is a typical Tetris clone. I tried to make the gameplay experience as smooth as possible though the game is lacking bells and whistles like a title-screen. Here are some screen shots of the game:

Running the Game

The only dependency that the game uses is the game library github.com/faiface/pixel. If you don't have it already you can run go get github.com/faiface/pixel to install it as well as go get github.com/zkry/golang-tetris to get the game.

Once you have the files, you can run go run *.go to play the game.

Controls

• Left/Right arrow - Move piece
• Up arrow - Rotate piece
• Down arrow - Fast fall
• Space - Instant drop

Todo

• Menus (Opening, game-over, pause)
• Animation for row clearing
• Music and sound effects