Game Development: Tetris in Angular

Today, I’m taking you along for a journey in game development with the classic game of Tetris. We are going to touch upon concepts like graphics, game loops, and collision detection. In the end, we will have a fully functioning game with points and levels.

I hope you come back if I let you try out the game: Play the game!

The code for the finished game is on GitHub. Please send me a message if you find something that does not work. Future developments of the game will go into the master branch while the blog branch will stay as-is.

Tetris

Tetris was created in 1984, by Alexey Pajitnov. The game requires players to rotate and move falling Tetris pieces. Players clear lines by completing horizontal rows of blocks without empty cells. But, if the pieces reach the top, the game is over!

Tetris is a great game to begin our journey in game development. It contains essential elements of games and can be done without too much effort. The tetrominos are a collection of four blocks, which makes graphics a bit easier than most games.