Tetris (NASM)

Overview

This is classic game named 'Tetris' written in plain old pure assembly (NASM).

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Implementation goals

• Basic Tetris gameplay: falling figures, clearing lines
• Figure fall trajectories
• Next figures window
• Figure holding possibility
• Statistics: score and cleared lines
• Levels: speed up game on each level
• Game over message
• Original music
• Pause menu
• Main menu

Implementation details

tetris-nasm uses NASM as the only programming language, libc and WIN32 API (with GDI) as external libraries.

How to build

1. Ensure You have installed SASM IDE.
2. Configure SASM_PATH variable in Makefile in the project root directory.
3. Run make build (or make run to run game on success build) in the project root directory.
4. If build succeeds You can find the executable in target/ directory from the project root directory.

How to play

• A and D to move figure left or right
• S to increase figure falling speed
• R to rotate figure
• Q to hold figure
• Space to drop figure