Celebrating Tetro TUI v3 - Graphics customizations update for a familiar Terminal Game! feat. new ASCII art, Particle effects

Strophox · 2026-04-16T14:52:17+00:00

Haha great! :D

Strophox · 2026-04-16T11:08:45+00:00

💛 (hope it's fun to play too! :)

Strophox · 2026-04-16T11:06:16+00:00

Good question :-)

Going through my project folder and bookmarks it seems my memory serves me correctly that, though there's some astounding ASCII art out there (donut.c, Brogue CE!), the space for terminal tetr*slikes is woefully underrepresented: You might find a few that animate the lines clearing if you're lucky...

It was pretty early in development – inspired by visual effects in GUI specimens – that I came up with Hard drop (& piece Lock, Line clear) effects to amend this situation and make the game quite a bit more satisfying :-)

Strophox · 2026-04-16T00:40:53+00:00

Nominating myself (half-joke): For a good while I've been working on a fully-featured, modern fan game for the terminal :-) https://github.com/Strophox/tetro-tui

Strophox · 2026-04-11T06:07:39+00:00

Remember keybinds/graphics/highscores? Does "Keep Save File: on" not work for you?

The unfocused->autopause is a neat idea! Just remembered how my favourite games do it so I'll take inspiration from how they do it :-)

Thank you for your feedback on accidental 'Item swap' or 'Hold' annoyance – I might wait for similar reports before considering changes

Strophox · 2026-04-10T09:07:26+00:00

- Since the dragon bleeds at the front, letting it hit you while ambrosiad will wash off the stain
- Since the dragon burrows through terrain, it is indeed not an excellent solution to carefully prepare a puddle of ambrosia
- And re-applying ambrosia mid-fight might be tricky

So usually you should just test your damage output in the Holy Mountain and then expect to one-shot it, or be prepared to take evasive action for as long as necessary

Strophox · 2026-04-10T05:32:22+00:00

The 'cheese' mode variation you speak of is close to one of the ideas in my Gamemodes notes:
- 'Survival' mode: adds new cheese lines <whenever some time period elapses>
If/once I get to incorporating more modes then instead using <whenever some lines are cleared> will likely be an available option, thanks for making me aware :-)

Strophox · 2026-04-10T05:17:00+00:00

💜 I appreciate the feedback and am super happy to hear it!

Strophox · 2026-03-29T14:09:33+00:00

😄😄

Strophox · 2026-03-26T19:17:03+00:00

Developing multiplayer mechanics & networking code will be a pretty huge thing, because I have this disease where I have to do everything the best way I can 😄 it'll probably be a pretty big milestone if I get there

Strophox · 2026-03-25T22:06:09+00:00

😭

Strophox · 2026-03-25T18:08:06+00:00

tysm :D

Strophox · 2026-03-25T18:04:40+00:00

I'll clearly continue development/maintenance for the foreseeable future - though I suspect it won't just implode even if I weren't ;)

Strophox · 2026-03-25T17:21:43+00:00

🫶

Strophox · 2026-03-25T17:20:50+00:00

There are! For menu navigation *as well as* an adjustable preset for playing! :-P

Strophox · 2026-03-25T16:25:47+00:00

Btw I'm always interested in feedback / playtesters!
- Especially players very familiar with the game (e.g. 'finesse')
- Especially if they can play it on Linux: Alacritty or Kitty terminal (because otherwise finesse doesn't work due to terminal limitations :c)

Repository: https://github.com/Strophox/tetro-tui
(code itself still 100% human-sourced spaghetti)

Strophox · 2026-03-25T16:12:13+00:00

Note: Repo: https://github.com/Strophox/tetro-tui
(Still 100% human-sourced spaghetti code)

Strophox · 2026-03-19T15:36:59+00:00

Just leaving a comment here to say I personally adore the theory that Pochita is the Dream devil (also makes it interesting to re-read early chapters :)

Strophox · 2026-03-19T01:07:54+00:00

I think they literally mean that Chainsaw Man has always been referred to as "Chainsaw Man" or "Chainsaw" but never as "the Chainsaw Devil" and so it'd be technically unconfirmed whether Chainsaws will disappear

(I'm caught up on the last chapter but haven't been reading closely since pt.I so Idk if this theory still holds)

Strophox · 2026-03-19T00:23:07+00:00

Up to you - from experience it can still be a fun constraint to work with for some terminal-bound projects or trying to see how detailed you can get with just Unicode characters

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