ThemeTris

v1.1


created by FishBros (2001)



Coding : Massimiliano Pesce (Italy)
Graphics : Alessandro Pesce (Italy)
Testing : Dario Pesce (Italy)

Help with joystick: Caz Jones (North Wales)


ThemeTris is completely free, you can redistribute it unless you modify something of the original package.

Version 1.1 (09/01/2001) - Added joystick support. Added highscores table.
Version 1.0 (08/28/2001) - Blocks now rotate in both directions. Controls are now configurable editing themetris.cfg.
Version 0.99 (08/26/2001) - First release.



ThemeTris is a desktop Tetris clone for BeOS (R5). It was developed using BeIDE (Metrowerks) and BeOS GUI functions. It uses very low system resources but it needs a desktop with 16bit depth or more. It's a standard Tetris with some innovations: There are two kinds of game: Standard and Endless.
In standard mode, you play all levels of the selected theme. At each level speed and/or the number of lines to do can increase.
In endless mode there are no levels: you play until you lose. Blocks fall down at increasing speed and all you need to do is to erase lines.




--- CONTROLS ---

A : Rotates left
S : Rotates right
LEFT, RIGHT : Move block.
DOWN : Move block to the bottom fast
ESC : Stops current game.
Controls are configurable editing themetris.cfg.
To use joystiick enable it from menu Options.




--- THEMES ---

ThemeTris comes with two themes: Classic and Gokou.
Classic theme is based on the original Tetris (coin-op version) and it is the game's default theme.
Gokou theme is based on a famous character...
It's possible to change theme, using the menu, only when the game is stopped.




--- CREATING A NEW THEME ---

A theme is composed by many files: To create a new theme follow these steps:
  1. Create a subdirectory in directory themes, it's name will be theme's name. If you stop now, your theme will be identical to Classic theme. This happens because every file not found in your directory is taken from classic theme.
  2. Insert in your directory all files you have changed. If (for example) you want to use standard sounds, simply do not put sound files in your directory.
Things you should remember:




--- KNOWN PROBLEMS ---

This game was tested on some computers (Pentium 150Mhz, K6-2 350Mhz, Celeron2 713Mhz) and it ran well. These little problems aren't solved yet:

For any problem, bug or hint please contact us.