Textris

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  How To Play Screen

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  Basic Level Screen

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  Meme Words?

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  GAME OVER

Inspiration

I was watching a youtube video on making an AI to play tetris, and I thought "huh, it would be fun to make Tetris", so I did that using JS and HTML (To post on my site). Instead of blocks, I used 'X' to make it easier to do. Then I made it various letters, and it started looking like a word search. I then saw this gamejam and decided to remake the game in PyGame and add more features.

What it does

Puzzle game with similar gameplay to tetris, but instead of using blocks to make lines of 10 blocks, you are using letters to make 4 letter long words. (The 4 is a reference to the tetriminos of tetris)

How we built it

Used Python to manipulate a 2d array that keeps track of what letters are where, then PyGame takes that info and displays it.

Challenges we ran into

I had quite the time getting a reset to work. I ended up just having to reset every single variable back to 0 and that seems to have done the trick.

One challenge that I have been unable to figure out, is flickering on Windows 11. On Windows 10, the game runs fine, but on all the Windows 11 machines I've tested on, the screen flickers when updating. Not sure why.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am very proud of how fun it is to play. Also proud of the theme, as it was the first time I tried to theme a game (The theme being an 80s era computer)

What we learned

I never used pygame before this project, so I learned so much, from how to handle input to how to make music work. Too much to name, cause it was basically everything.

What's next for Textris

I want to make it into an android app next, but I'll have to learn how to do that first.

Built With

• math
• pygame
• python