Fully functional, this program allows users to play tetris in a simple graphical user interface built with Python's tkinter module. Like all tetris games, you can move, rotate, hold, and drop pieces with simple controls. These controls are all processed in tkinter's event loop with a secondary thread being run in the background to continously lower tetris pieces at increasing speeds. Players place blocks and clear lines until, eventually, they can't catch up. Each line cleared adds to their score that is displayed throughout and at the end, when the program asks if the user wants to play again.

Some of the techniques used in this project:

• GUI Design (with tkinter)
• Threading
• Image Manipulation (with PIL)
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Inheritance

This project was in independent project created during the Fall semester of my Freshman year at Missouri S&T. It was concieved and developed in a period of 10 days.

Requirements:

Python == 3.9.1
Pillow == 8.3.2

There are two versions of this program. The first is the 'Simple' version, which includes all developments up to the introduction of gridlines in the background of the gamefield. The second version generates gridlines in the backgrounds of images and puts textures on individual blocks. These versions are separated in case machines with low computational power (something like a Raspberry Pi) has trouble with these image manipulations.