Hello, everyone.

It's been a little while since my first reveal of Omertris. It's still not quite done, but I thought that an update to show it's direction would be a good idea. As some of you may know, I have had two surgeries to remove a what turned out to be a 10mm by 6mm kidney stone, and I have one more surgery on the 3rd, so progress got a little slow for a while. Well, I've finally felt up to working on Omertris some more, so here it goes. I included the source for those interested.

INSTRUCTIONS
All keys are remappable and work with a keyboard or a controller, both X Input and D input!
Default keys:
Left-Left Arrow
Right-Right Arrow
Soft Drop-Down Arrow; Drops the piece faster than normal.
Hard Drop-Up Arrow; Drops the piece instantly
Rotate Clockwise-X
Rotate Counter-Z
Pause-Enter
Select-Right Shift; On pause screen, exits to main menu. With a Tetrimorph, it allows you to flip the piece horizontally.

GAME MODES
Arcade-Incomplete! Fun to play, though. Every eighth piece is a Tetrimorph.

Classic-Classic game, 10 lines per level, infinite play.

Marathon-Increasing line goal, 10 levels to win.

Garbage Clear-Variable garbage height, clear all garbage to win.

Invasion-Only Tetrimorphs!!! Complete 5 lines to win. This is an insane game mode!

IMPORTANT INFO
+When you win, it will still just say game over and take you to the main menu. High scores are not implemented, yet.
+As I said, Arcade is far from complete. It does still work, but only at slowest speed, and only ends when you use the pause-exit.
+Tetrimorphs can be flipped horizontally by pressing select. Neat variation on standard play.
+Wall-Kicks and T-Spins are fully functional. So, if you know how to do those like I do, it makes the game much easier.
+My source code is currently, horribly inefficient(I know some prime spots to optimize, like my hacked together menu code). As I am a game designer, not a coder, these things take back seat, unless they make my game run slowly. I also didn't comment very well. I shall fix both with the final release.

Anyway, there are things I am proud of, and things I am not. I don't care. With the game as it is, I am currently very proud. And, I will continue until it's finished.

THINGS LEFT TO DO
Logos for game, and game modes.
Icon for executable.
Readme help file.
Arcade tutorial animations.
Arcade level intermission screens.
Screen transition animations.
Score screen.
File output to save scores and key configs.
Logo splash screen, and all copyright info.
Full music score.
Cleaning up my source code.
Release to the world!!!

Thank you for giving my game a shot.

Hey, Fillippe. Does the logo I mocked up look good? I already resource hacked a beta of it into my copy of QB64 and it looks pretty darn sweet. There it is in action in the pic below. I really do hope you like it.

One thing to make the IDE look a whole lot better would be a better logo. Logos with words or letters on them are very bland, so I took the liberty of coming up with a design last night, and mocked it up today. I have too much time on my hands now that I'm recovering from surgery! Lol Tell me what you think. It's kind of based on the old [abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there] logo. Also, I watermarked it so that no internet thieves could swing by and steal it! Lol

[EDIT] BTW, I could do a lot more graphics if we wanted a graphical interface.

I agree with Steve. If you needed a fast car, which would you buy? A) A 2018 Bugatti Chiron that someone managed to slap a 200HP V4 Honda engine in. B) A beat up, rusty but fully working 1976 Ford Mustang II hatchback that someone hooked up to a 1,500HP 16 cylinder supercharger. I know these scenarios are wildly improbable, but it mirrors this situation perfectly.

For instance, I've known programmers who almost only use Notepad++ to code in C++. I've personally used Notepad++ for CSS and HTML pretty extensively. I think rather than focusing on what QB64 could do, or how it could look, we need to show as a community what it can do. Instead of just sharing stuff around the forum, our best work needs to hit the rest of the internet. I, for one, plan to release Omertris into the wilds of the web once I finish it. It's playable, it's clean, and everyone that's played the current version agrees that it's darn fun, and that's what matters.

QB64 is a pretty simple to pick up language, and while it's not too hot with 3D, it's great for small 2D apps. Card games, dice games, platformers, puzzlers, shoot 'em ups, RPGs. The IDE is good enough, as in it's not the BEST per se, but it doesn't hinder us all that much. What does hinder us some, however, is it's weak support for com ports and DLLs, somewhat broken bit level commands and Boolean variables, okay user defined types, and barely passable access to control over keyboards, mice, and devices(face it, we often have to jury rig complex control schemes).

If we could fix the com ports and DLLs, then the language could drastically grow with the user. Those that learn C could then help expand the community by providing more growth in the language. That's one thing I liked about DarkBASIC(RIP). There were a multitude of DLLs, and once the user got comfortable with the native command set, they could then download community created command sets to craft the language into what they needed.

Or maybe someone can start a 30 lines or less challenge without the IF condition, so all of us can compete under same rules.

We all can compete under the same rules. No conditionals. Lol. It wouldn't be much of a challenge otherwise.

Hey, Terry. That's a pretty neat little game there. I think you're the only one that got fancy with sounds and graphics! Although, not the only one that used conditionals apparently. XD But, still probably the most addictive game here(Must be the colors and the sounds. Haha).

Hey, B+, I imagine with Digit Thief that he has me blindfolded and he's pinning my hand to a table, and making me guess which finger he'll take next. Kind of dark and sadistic! Lol. Oh, yeah, and we're in the seedy underbelly of a Hong Kong restaurant backroom. XD

Hey, Pete. Neat game, it took me a second to figure out the next card was the card that was higher or lower than the last. But, I like it. I've always liked high or low, because it's simple, clean, and with few rules.

Anyway, here's an updated smoother version of my game. Better explanation, and now you can see your score AND how many turns it took you as well!

Here is my entry. Started it last night. Finished it about an 30mins ago, then played it a little.
It's a simple dice game. No IFs, WHILEs, DOs, SELECTs, and all logic is math based. Please tell me if the instructions are clear enough. It's quite a complex little game for 30 lines! Which made it kind of hard to sum up. Lol.

[EDIT]Fixed code in code box.

I don't know why the math is acting the way it is, but as a game designer, I follow the "first fix wins now, best fix wins later" principle.

Putting INT() around the final guess at least undoes the whole .5 thing and makes the guess correct:

You're right, Steve, how does binary math produce decimals? Without division, there should be no .5's in there. Do we actually have an instance of binary math producing fractional numbers?

You know what that'll do to society? Girls playing with trucks. Boys playing with dolls. Horses eating each other. Yes, horses eating each other! It's in the Bible, Fracine!

I tried to DIM guess as _byte, and it would guess 22 for 21, 6 for 5, 2 for 1. I tried to DIM guess, a, i, j as _byte, it brought back the .5's! I'm going to look more into this.