A Tetris game written in C (Cetris -> Citrus) using just the standard library. It's meant to run in your terminal and uses ASCII and ANSI characters to display the blocks.
- Make sure you're running on either Linux or are using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) because anything other than Linux is bad.
- Make sure you have gcc installed on Linux (you may or may not need to do this, try out step 3 first!). Good luck installing it 🫡.
- Clone the repository and cd into it. Then simply type "./citrus".
- It should hopefully work and not die.
There isn't much you can change. If you really want to though, you can open the citrus.c file and change the HEIGHT and/or WIDTH varibles of the game. You can also change the MAIN_THREAD_SLEEP_TIME and INPUT_THREAD_SLEEP_TIME variables to change how quickly it refreshes. Try not to crash it!
Why did I make this?
- I wanted to actually make something in C because I've only really done web development and the only time I've had to use C/C++ is in robotics and DSA.
- I saw a coding montage in the movie Tetris (awesome movie) and I was like, "hmm, it can't be that hard." It really isn't hard either, it just takes me a bit of time to think :).
- It's for my Computer Programming 11 course.
Why didn't I use any libraries?
- Libraries in C are weird.
- Web development is all about putting together like 50 different libraries, I wanted to have a go at coding something without that.
- Why not?
Why did I choose C?
I've always been using objects because every single other language I've programmed in has objects. Then I was like, "hmm, what if OOP is just dumb?" To test this hypothesis, and force myself to not use objects, I wrote it in C.