Report Game 11 : Tetris

    

Interactivity

Tetris  is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union.

The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, Mobile phones as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, portable media players, PDAs.

A random sequences of Tetriminos fall down the playing field, player has to create a horizontal line by rotating and moving  the object.

Concept

The objective of the game is very simple the player has to manipulate these Tetriminos, by moving each one sideways and rotating it by 90 degree units, with the aim of creating a horizontal line of ten blocks without gaps. When such a line is created, it disappears, and any block above the deleted line will fall. When a certain number of lines are cleared, the game enters a new level. As the game progresses, each level causes the Tetriminos to fall faster, and the game ends when the stack of Tetriminos reaches the top of the playing field and no new Tetriminos are able to enter.  

There are 7 basic Tetriminos shapes, these are:

• I Shape
• J Shape
• L Shape
• O Shape
• Z Shape
• T Shape
• S Shape

Shapes

Story

There is no story to the game, game begins with an empty playing field and A random sequence of Tetriminos falling down the playing field.

Goals

The goal of the game is to make a horizontal line with the Tetriminos. When such line is created , it disappears and the player receives points. The game continues till stack of Tetriminos reaches the top of the playing field and no new Tetriminos are able to enter.  

Setting

AS of today there are many variant of the game. Background music was used in the game for the first time when the game was released on game boy. Each shape is represented by different color.

Challenges

AS the player plays the game the falling speed of the Tetriminos increases which makes the games difficult for the player.