Thanks, Andre! As someone who helped developer (TheShich) a little with this game I want to add some information.
Tetris Championship Edition is the mod of Tetris 2 (by František Fuka) with one main goal - make this excellent game more suitable for modern players who already played NES Tetris, Tetris 99 etc. There are new scoring system, new colors, new controls and lots of other improvements.
Here's a list of some of changes:
* you can hold left or right key and piece will move continuously in that direction (you had to press these keys many times before);
* soft drop implemented;
* you can now rotate pieces to the right (previously it was only to the left);
* accordingly, Redefine Keys screen has been changed;
* the randomizer has been greatly improved, now the same frequency of all pieces is guaranteed;
* scoring system has been changed: now it’s much more profitable to clean several lines at once, especialy 4;
* the level increases when a certain amount of lines is cleared (previously it did not change at all);
* the number of levels in the classic mode has been increased: earlier, only levels 1-8 were available, now it's 0-9 by default and 10-19 with DROP key pressed;
* theoretically the number of levels is not limited;
* two tracks by František Fuka was replaced by his another two tracks;
* in Tetris 2 mode all levels have been redone (now there are 50 of them, but there will be more), and this mode was named Puzzle;
* cheat mode for Puzzle was added;
* Normal Tetris mode was renamed to Classic;
* now you can listen to music along with 48k effects (you had to choose one or another before);
* colors of the pieces have been changed according to modern Tetris Guidelines (although orange was replaced with white, because there is no orange on the ZX Spectrum);
* pieces has texture now (only one for now, but there will be more);
* Puzzle mode now has harder levels limited by a timer (in the original, there was simply a transition to a new level if time was out).
And here's plans for future:
* display next piece;
* add line counter;
* make the transition to a new level more visually noticeable;
* add new tunes;
* new textures on the pieces;
* show who in the lead in Classic mode;
* add another 50 levels for the Puzzle mode;
* make it possible to switch to classic levels;
* somehow fit the entire game in 40 KB.
The author of Tetris Championshion Edition will gladly accept all your suggestions, so send them to
[email protected] or just put them here, I'll tell him. You can
download SNA here.
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