22: Putting it all together

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We’re starting the final (full) week of Cardboctober now, so I thought I’d do a
week-long project to pull together some of the ideas from Cardboctober.

I’m going to be making a Tetromino game in VR. Each day this week I’ll cover an
aspect of building the game, and then hopefully at the end of the week we’ll
have a full game to play.

[IMAGE: https://blog.omgmog.net/images/2016-10/22/tetrominoes.png]

I’ve built Tetromino games before in some capacity – I spent some time a couple
of months ago building one using Python. Here are some great resources for
working out how the game works:

* The Mechanics of Nintendo Tetris
  (http://meatfighter.com/nintendotetrisai/?a=b#The_Mechanics_of_Nintendo_Tetris)
* Tetris Wikia: Scoring (http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Scoring)
* StackOverflow: Tetris Piece Rotation Algorithm
  (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233850/tetris-piece-rotation-algorithm)
* Tetris game logic for beginners
  (http://javilop.com/gamedev/tetris-tutorial-in-c-platform-independent-focused-in-game-logic-for-beginners/)

I’m going to be using the following libraries that we’ve utilised throughout
Cardboctober so far:

* Three.js for all of the 3D stuff
* StereoEffect.js and DeviceOrientationControls.js for VR
* VReticle for reticle control
* Howler.js for audio

If you want to catch up so that you can follow along this week, check out the
following posts:

* 01: Basic VR (https://blog.omgmog.net/post/cardboctober-01)
* 03: Even better gazed based look interaction
  (https://blog.omgmog.net/post/cardboctober-03)
* 04: Skyboxes and generating meshes
  (https://blog.omgmog.net/post/cardboctober-04)
* 06: VR Pairs Game (https://blog.omgmog.net/post/cardboctober-06)
* 08: Playing sounds (https://blog.omgmog.net/post/cardboctober-08)
* 11: Webaudio Beat Sequencer (https://blog.omgmog.net/post/cardboctober-11)
* 12: AAAAH! Zombies (https://blog.omgmog.net/post/cardboctober-12)
* 13: AAAAH! More Zombies (https://blog.omgmog.net/post/cardboctober-13)

I’ll be using my core.js
(https://github.com/cardboctober/max/blob/master/js/core.js) library as with the
rest of my hacks this month to simplify some of the work, so it’s probably worth
familiarising yourself with the utilities in there.

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Published October 22, 2016

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Max Glenister is an interface designer and senior full-stack developer from
Oxfordshire. He writes mostly about front-end development and technology.

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