Erlang: Writing a Tetris clone Part 3 – Gameplay rules, final features and deployment

The third video in this series moves on with implementation of gameplay rules, scoring, the “next” preview window and packaging and deploying the game using ZX as a shortcut. Writing this is a lot of fun. As of this video the game part is finished, but there are a few things such as high score […]

Erlang: Writing a Tetris clone Part 2 – Gameplay mechanics

Last night I was able to make the second video in my series about implementing a Tetris clone in Erlang. Yay! In this video I start where I left off in the first video where I had ended with a data abstraction to represent the play field (called the “well” in Tetris lingo), a data […]

Erlang: Writing a Tetris clone Part 1 – Data types and basic GUI display

Over the last few days I wrote an Erlang implementation of the classic puzzle game Tetris and decided to do a few videos to explain how it works and why. This is part one of a three-part series. Data types and basic GUI display [this page] Gameplay mechanics Gameplay rules, final features, and deployment This […]