1010 Blitz

Inspiration

What it does

How we built it

Challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for 1010 Blitz

What we wanted

1010 game with AI player

What we achieved

Were unable to implement AI solver in time, but had planned to try all possible next moves and play highest scoring following a set of criteria Wrote 1010 game using p5.js – great for UI work Had very close functionality to original 1010 We added a timer to create a “blitz” mode

Functionality

• 10 x 10 grid, score board and timer above, next pieces below
• Can click on a piece from below and place it onto the board
• Game checks whether move is valid (not off screen/ over other blocks) before placing it
• Pressing spacebar while holding blocks puts it back in the next pieces box
• After placement game checks for any completed lines and removes them
• Also awards score based on size of piece and lines cleared
• Scoring points increases remaining time
• Game is drawn using coordinates relative to window but game logic is performed in 10 x 10 array with unit coordinates ((0,0), (1,6), (9,9))
• Pieces are defined as series of relative unit coordinates to their grips
• Game converts user input coordinates into unit game space to apply logic and then converts results of logic back into window coordinates to draw

Features:

• Time out – Timer starts at 30s, scoring points increases time remaining, 1 point = 1s, max time cap 60s if timer hits 0 you lose
• No more moves, if placing a piece leaves you with no possible positions for any of your remaining pieces you lose
• Losing freezes the game and prints your final score at the top of the board

Bugs

• Pieces at the bottom won’t snap back to original location, but in the next available space
• If the losing move happens to clear lines, the score will increase accordingly but the grid won’t update properly

Built With

• javascript
• p5