Free Falling Blocks AKA Physics Based Tetris-like Game

A demo of a physics based falling blocks game I'm developing. It looks better then in the video, and the win message at the end is off because I forgot to turn off lighting for that bit. Also the audio loses syne... but the game has impact sounds like at the beginning. The game was over 22minutes so I had to cut it down some. I will upload better videos once I make more significant changes. I have lots of enhancements still in store for this.
The pieces are manipulated by applying left/right and rotational forces. At each level the blocks gain more and more mass, thus making those forces have less effect. There is also a super gravity button that makes it fall faster which doesn't change as the mass increases because that's how gravity works. Because of the on restrained nature of the pieces, it's easily possible to get them stuck in a bad position, they won't lock in like that, and you can press r to teleport them back to the starting point (with a 100 point deduction for teleportation costs.) For most of the game I was using the super gravity and the quick lock. Without the quicklock (w) the piece will need to settle for a couple seconds before locking. In both cases it needs to be aligned closely to the grid in order to lock, you can notice a few times where the piece flashes, that's because I tried to lock when it wasn't lined up.
www.freefallingblocks.com will be updated as I progress.
The music in the background is just what was playing on my computer, it's Sigur Rós & Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson - Óðin's Raven Magic.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• free falling blocks
• tetris
• Bullet Physics
• OpenGL

[Kevincentius]

How can someone lose in this game? :p

[jasonrun2]

@Kevincentius The game isn't so much win or lose as be able to get the most points, which comes from being able to move through the pieces as quickly as possible (points earned per piece decrease the longer you have it unlocked) and with a few piece resets as possible (each one reduces your score).

[UltramasterBDJ]

Interesting thought!

Heh, mostly for the lulz I'd probably have included an option or a cheat mode to "just go crazy".

As in, give the player a time restriction to alingning his current block...If the player can't get them alingned in time - too bad. :P

When (or at all) are you planning to release this game?

The site appears to be down.

[jasonrun2]

@UltramasterBDJ The time is factored in by the amount of points you get. The longer it takes to place the piece, the fewer the points.

[Zarac1121123]

lolwut

[Bioreek]

physics tetris? lol

[spy386]

It looks pretty funny. Nice job.