Play 🎮 TETRIS

I made this small project to simulate the original 1984 version of TETRIS game. I saw a Youtube video showing the gameplay of this classic run on DVK-2 computer and thought I could implement it in browser and have some fun in the process.

To make it look similar to the old game, I made it entirely text based, meaning that every frame of the game animation is rendered into a string of text with 25 rows of 80 chars and looks like this:

ROWS HIT:             11    ‹! . . . . . . . . . .!›                            
SCORE:               980    ‹! . . . . . . . . . .!›      UP ARROW: ROTATE      
LEVEL:                 2    ‹! . . . . . . . . . .!›    DOWN ARROW: SOFT DROP   
                            ‹! . . . .▮▮ . . . . .!›      SPACEBAR: HARD DROP   
                            ‹! . . . .▮▮▮▮ . . . .!›        ESC, P: PAUSE       
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                            ‹!====================!›                            
                              \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/                              

Basic setup code:

TETRIS.on({
  nextFrame: function( frame ) {
    // replace HTML special chars
    frame = frame.replace( /[ <>]|\n\r/g, function( m ) { return {
      " ": "&nbsp;",
      "<" : "&lsaquo;",
      ">" : "&rsaquo;",
      "\n\r" : "<br>" }[ m ] })

    document.body.innerHTML = frame
  }
})

addEventListener( "keydown", function( e ) {
  TETRIS.pressKey( e.keyCode )
})

Check the play.js for more advanced code.

Audio

I extracted some audio effects from the original video and integrated them into the demo using Web Audio API.

Progressive Web App

The play page is served as a PWA, so you can play the game offline.

Leaderboard

I also made a simple microservice to store best scores of the play page.