Tequiz

merge(tetris, quiz)

Tetris was the very first programming project I finished in 2002-2003. Back then I used C# and it was a GUI application running in Windows.

Recently I watched the movie Tetris. When I saw tetrominoes were rendered as [] in the early versions, I was like: "Beautiful!".

So, after 20 years, I want to implement the game one more time, and make it a TUI application.

Installation

# tap if need
brew tap iZettle/formulae https://github.com/iZettle/homebrew-formulae
# or update if already tapped
brew update

# install
brew install --HEAD izettle/formulae/tequiz

# update
brew reinstall tequiz

Fun fact:

The game has monochrome graphics, and in the first revision of the game, the blocks in the tetrominos are represented by a pair of delete/rubout characters (character code 177); however, the rendering of this character code as a rectangle was a feature specific to the Soviet clone machines, an actual PDP-11 would instead display nothing. A later revision was made where the blocks are represented by a pair of square brackets instead.

-- https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_(Electronika_60)