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Tetrominoes @ The Ohio State University

Dependency	Version
Python	v3.7+
Arcade	v2.6.15
AntiMicroX	v3.2.5
OpenGL	v3.3+

Complete requirements.txt included.

Game Window Design

Screen	Pixels (px)
Tower	342 x 1080
Game Area	342 x 1008
Program Display	1920 x 1080

72 px buffer on the bottom of the Tower screen

Structure Theory

This section details information on how the game was designed and is intended to operate.

Game Views

A view represents a page in which the user sees on-screen. This game has four primary views as detailed below.

4 Main views	Key to Switch View
MenuView	F1
LeaderBoardView	F2
NewPlayer	F3
GameView	Progression from NewPlayer

Backgrounds

Menu	Leaderboard	New Player	Game

Leaderboard/Score Saving Design

1. Game should pull from external txt/dat file for current leaderboard.
2. Game should save to external txt/dat file for leaderboard progression.
3. Leaderboard file updated after completion of each game
4. File must be saved in src file and named: tetris_scores.csv

Screen & Game Logic Progression

The location of falling blocks (individual sprite tiles) is updated with every logic loop and redrawn on every screen (FPS) update.

Game Logic Updates & Window Redraw Updates are separately called and monitored. The diagnostics panel reports the game logic rate as UPS and the redraw rate as FPS. Arcade will attempt to update the game logic at 60 UPS.

Game level determines scoring and game speed.

Game levels are updated based on time elapsed in game play. The number of levels is correlated to the total number of time levels defined.

Game speed is the number of frames between stone drops.

Game speed denotes the frequency in which blocks are dropped (incremented down) and is directly related to the number of frames elapsed. Must be an integer. Speed = (# of Levels) - Current Level + GAME_SPEED_FLOOR