faststack

A simple customizable tetris variant.

This is primarily targeted at fast line-race play. If you want a more feature-filled game, I would suggest NullpoMino instead.

Motivation

• NullpoMino doesn't run on linux for me.
• No decent terminal tetris games that target fast 40-line play.
• Wanted something to do.

Installation

This requires meson to build along with any C99 compiler. Some frontends have additional requirements.

meson build
cd build
ninja

Switching Frontends

cd build
mesonconf -Dfrontend=sdl # or -Dfrontend=terminal
ninja

NOTE: Some frontends have individual dependencies not listed here. See their subdirectories for details.

Structure

The rough project structure is as follows:

• src/engine Contains the core tetris engine code that does the logic/work. This is independent of any graphical code.

• src/frontend

  • terminal Contains a frontend which renders directly to a linux terminal.

  • SDL2 Contains an SDL2 graphical interface.

  • kernel Contains a complete operating system base and a minimal frontend which can run the faststack engine for iX86/x86_64 systems.

Contributing

If you have any ideas or requests, feel free to create an issue.

License

GPLv3 licensed. See the README.

The core engine is based vary loosely in structure on the old lockjaw game, which was licensed under the GPLv2 or later. Mostly zero-code is shared, however some design similarities may be noticeable.