How to make a full Tetris game in C/C++

Video showing a live coding session on how to implement a complete Tetris game in C with level progression, scoring, and level selection.

Apologies for the audio quality.

Corrections:

The word 'Tetrino' used throughout the video should obviously be 'Tetromino'.

0:11:10: meant to say 90 degrees, not 45 degrees, obviously.

1:22:10: src_row greater than 0 should be src_row greater than or equal to 0

1:23:13: the case src_row == dst_row should be handled and no memcpy called

1:48:00: game_over_row = 0 not a good choice, should be max(0, HEIGHT - VISIBLE_HEIGHT - 1)

Source code at:

[Fireside_Collective]

Awesome! The sound of your keyboard and your voice are so smooth. I love being able to follow your thinking process when you are talking it out. Thank you for this video!

[totaljustice]

nice! I compilied the game for the nintendo switch and it works just fine (once you plug in a keyboard).

[undofix]

Great job! Your version of Tetris looks more minimalistic and interesting.

[Lages]

Please make more videos like this one, i loved it!

[alexgouveia]

Hello sir... Why do you stop making coding game videos? Do more!

[It_Ezra]

Its Tetromino not Tetrino btw

Great demonstration!

[uchungnguyen]

wow!!! thnak you very much, it's nice game

[HussainAhmad-kheo]

Where are you
Make more games live please 🙂

[Grynhaus]

Great video! What color theme is that? looks really nice.

[uchungnguyen]

Where we put colors.h file in Visual Studio?

[jamesyount]

A lot of what you're doing is not allowed in pure C. I'm finding that I'm having to do a lot of workarounds to make this pure C and not C++. For instance, you can't do structs like that in C. Also, a function call is not allowed inside of a constant expression like that. In my version, I had to put the TETROMINOS[] array inside of main.

[igmpvgoa]

Hey, I am new to programming. I am following along with you. For some reason, there is no match for the SDL_GetKeyboardState function. If you could help, I would greatly appreciate it! thanks!

[odteknology]

I don't know how to install colors.h in visual studio.

[ngocthinh]

i can't build std library on my IDE. Now i'm using VSCode, anyone can help me for this, please ?

[netsurfer]

Is there source code sir? btw thank you for help

[your_name]

Is VS necessary can't I use VSCode? I'm on linux

[zgg]

Hi im new in dev c++ pogramming, a highschool student. For some reason when compiling there's a message in the compiler that says "[error] SDL.h:No such file or directory".if you could help, I would greatly appreciate it. thanks...

[insplant]

is there any source code of this, I need this

[helios]

As a beginner in game programming, this is so difficult to understand.

[gmr]

This code does not work. Not sure what exactly you are doing when adding those SDL headers but all I are Linker errors. Probably mine are different version, no idea.
Would have been nice to have had the complete package in order to compile a build. As is this was another waste of time (did try to actually follow along for over 1 hour, while writing the code along with you) with another "how to code something" where something doesn't work but some dependencies are not properly explained...