Monogame Tetris Tutorial

A Monogame based tutorial series, goal is to have a fully working Tetris game. Note that this is purely a learning exercise. This project is not affiliated with The Tetris Company. I chose this game to provide a challenging but fun game to learn more about!

Introduction

This tutorial (or "how did he do this?") aims to reproduce the game. The ruleset used based of The Tetris Guideline. Since there are a ton of tutorials out there focussing on 2D spritebased games, this game will be visualised with 3D objects. Fear not, it is not as hard as it looks!

Chapters

1. Some base Monogame stuff:

   • Game Engine basics
   • 3D basics
   • The cube- our basis for the shapes
   • Sourcecode for Chapter 1

2. Gameplay

   • Tetriminoes
   • The Grid
   • Movement of pieces
   • Clearing lines
   • Finishing Touches
   • Sourcecode for Chapter 2

3. Advanced Gameplay

   • The 7-Bag
   • Lock delay
   • Preview Queue
   • Wallkicks (or: Super Rotation System - SRS)
   • Sourcecode for Chapter 3

4. Advanced topics

   • Shaders
   • GPU Hardware Instancing
   • Shadowmapping and Cascaded shadowmaps.
   • Sourcecode for Chapter 4