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Falling Up

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Falling Up (OSX)
Falling Up (Win)
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A twist on the traditional "falling tetronimos" game. It starts out simple, but every level gives you a different perspective. The board will flip, spin, and dance.

The game supports a "soft" drop (if drop is followed by either left or right, then the piece will attempt to slide left or right as soon as it hits bottom).

Falling Up will have you giggling with evil glee. I wrote it as a precursor to other games, a way to learn new technologies (GLUT, OpenGL, OpenAL, NSIS, ...), and to brush up on old ones (c, for that matter).

The (OSX/windows/linux) source code is essentially free to do with as you please, if you like. If you "steal" most of it, I'd prefer you give credit back to here, but really... whatever. I learned from lots of places and anything I can do to pay that back is cool.

The game is now also available for the iPhone through the App Store! Support? fallingup - at - erif dot org.

Download Current

• Windows - 004b
• Mac OS X - 004b
• Linux - 004
• src - 004

Feedback?

• Freshmeat.net
• IceWalkers.com
• techtracker.com -- OS X Win*
• Freeware World

Changelog

004b -- building up to 005

• changed background rendering to textures instead of an image (increasing framerate considerably)
• newer installer for windows
• icon added for windows
• openal toolkit included for os x
• in-game menus--you don't have to use function keys for everything
• cleaner UI
• base score algo taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris -- scaled down by a factor of ten
• ability to start from higher levels
• several tilesets
• preview reduces points by 20 percent
• low-scoring "CHEAT" mode reduces points by 60 percent--see if you can find this without looking at the source!

004

The score file was adding 1 to the "level" the score was attained at every time a new high score was made, give or take; that is fixed. I added a background image (doesn't work with 'trails', may slow down on slower systems), and made 'F4' quit out of playing the game.

Old Versions

os x

004, 003, 001, 000B, 000A

windows

004, 003, 002A, 002, 001A, 001, 000A, 000

source code

004, windows installer script for 004, 003, 002A, 002, 001A, 001, 000A

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