dotris.6

.Dd April 23, 2023
.Dt dotris 6
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm dotris
.Nd "a Tetris clone using ncurses and braille characters"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl v
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a Tetris clone that is playable within a terminal and uses Braille characters
to render the pieces.
.Ss SCORING
The scoring system is based on the BPS version of Tetris. 
When you clear one, two, three or four (tetris) lines at once you will earn 40,
100, 300, 1200 points, respectively.
If the piece used to clear was hard dropped you get one
point per row added to the base amount.
Each level acts as a multiplier, for
example, on level two, clearing one line is worth 80 points.
.Ss LEVELS
After every 10 lines cleared, the speed of the falling tetrimino increases by
40% and the current state of the grid is cleared so you have a fresh start per
level.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Nm
is best played in a terminal emulator that renders Braille characters
programmatically instead of relying on the font so that the pieces are evenly
spaced.
It is also more comfortable to play while the terminal is zoomed.
Example terminals that do this are
.Xr st 1 (with box draw patches) and
.Xr kitty 1 .
.Sh CONTROLS
.Bl -tag -width 10n
.It Left
Move tetrimino left
.It Right
Move tetrimino right
.It Up
Rotate tetrimino clockwise
.It Down
Soft drop (move down)
.It Spacebar
Hard drop
.It C
Hold/Restore tetrimino
.It Q
Quit game
.El
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Trevor Arjeski Aq Mt tmarjeski@gmail.com