[adder46]

I wanted to share my attempt at implementing the classic tetris game. It works in the terminal and uses the ncurses-rs bindings for the UI part. For me, the coolest part about it is that the tetrominos and their rotations are encoded as 16-bit unsigned integers. For example, to represent a square, we want 51! Why 51? Because 51 decimal is `0b0000000000110011`. We can make 4x4 Vec from that, and we get:

``` [[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, 1], [0, 0, 1, 1]] ```

Notice how the 1s form a square?

As I'm still learning Rust, any suggestions regarding the architecture, overall design of the game, more idiomatic code, etc., are very welcome.

If you want to play or just see how it turned out, check out:

https://github.com/adder46/tetris.rs

[PetitPrince]

Look up for tetrisconcept.net and theabsolute.plus discord ( https://discord.gg/6Gf2awJ ). Several people have made attempts to recreate sophisticated clones of Tetris, and the absolute plus leader board is written in rust.

[whateveracct]

Does representing tetrominos that way make hit detection or anything like that easier? My gut says the only thing they add is slightly smaller memory usage, but maybe i'm missing some sort of elegant bit trick.