Betty Boop Tetris

This Tetris game has a Betty Boop theme and in­cludes clas­sic an­i­ma­tion videos for each level. The con­trols are easy to use, and the ro­ta­tion sys­tem is smooth. Play­ers can choose be­tween dif­fer­ent back­grounds and grids for a more per­son­al­ized gam­ing ex­pe­ri­ence.

This project has some nice fea­tures:

• All re­sources are com­piled within the code, and they are gen­er­ated by the Make­file using GIMP scripts to ex­port lay­ers and hide/show them ac­cord­ing to a spe­cific nam­ing con­ven­tion.
• If the videos (which are from the In­ter­net Archive) are not present in the build di­rec­tory, they are down­loaded, cut, en­coded, con­verted to C code ar­rays, and com­piled into one sta­tic bi­nary.
• The game can be com­piled for Linux or Win­dows (SDL/mingw32) into a clean self-​contained ap­pli­ca­tion, all cross-​compiled on my Linux work­sta­tion.
• De­spite in­clud­ing all 10 "next level" videos, the zipped pack­age was only 3.3 MB (6 MB un­com­pressed), thanks to the tight ogg/vor­bis/the­ora com­pres­sion.
• To avoid using extra li­braries, all im­ages and sprites were en­coded as The­ora videos. Each sprite or back­ground was in­cluded in a frame, which worked well for the back­grounds since only the game board changed, al­low­ing for artis­tic free­dom and light­weight con­tent.

Credit

• platform: C, SDL, Ogg/Vorbis/Theora, GIMP Script
• Carlo 'zED' Caputo: I created a Tetris game for my ex-girlfriend. I hope my wife won't be upset if she sees it here :]