RE: [pygame] learning to program tetris

["Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com>]

> I'm new to pygame/programming and I am trying to learn.
> I'm starting with a tetris clone and I have run into some problems.
> Specifically, I don't know the best way to erase blocks, or how to get the 
> pieces to "fit" together.
> I imagine that the playing board in my code needs to be an array, the 
> pieces are checked against the array for filled blocks and stop if they run 
> into one.
>
> I've reviewed the code on the pygame site, a lot of it is helpful, I just 
> wish there were more examples and tutorials.

There is a tetris-like game that comes w/ pygsear:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pygsear/

It is in the separate games distribution ... ntris.

While savannah's file downloads are still down, there is a
temporary mirror of the files here:
http://staff.easthighschool.net/lee/computers/book/pygsear/

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