Lock-Tris is a simple Tetris clone where each time you rotate a piece it locks one of the blocks on the board. Clearing a row that contains one or more locked blocks will clear all blocks other than the locked ones, and will unlock all remaining blocks. Locked blocks are not affected by gravity so things can get messy quite fast if you aren't careful.

Have fun.

Controls: - Left and Right arrow keys to move piece - Up arrow key to rotate - Control key to hold piece

Made in 8 hours (yes 8 hours) for Ludum Dare Compo 43 by Cameron Robinson (Durveg).

Tools: - Unity 2018 - Photoshop - ChipTone

Postmortem:

LD43 landed on a very inconvenient weekend for me this year. I was unable to do any planning let alone actual coding until Sunday morning, with about 8 - 8.5 hours left on the clock. After some brainstorming I came up with a great idea for the theme! It was going to be a strategy puzzler game with some good depth to the mechanics. On paper it even sounds, to me, like a good game to continue working on after the jam for an official release. But obviously that was FAR out of scope for the time I had remaining in the compo.

So putting that idea into storage, I fell back to advice I heard about what to do if you can't come up with an idea. I decided to just create a clone of something really simple, and add some kind of mechanic to tie into the theme to make it not a straight clone. I wanted to go with a break out clone but after some more failed brainstorming on that I landed on Tetris. I'm not super satisfied with the add-on mechanic I came up with, but I am happy with just the fact that I got a reasonably finished product done in 8 hours.

The only things I really didn't have time to add were a simple theme tune and increasing difficulty, the game can get pretty challenging as it is so that might not be an issue.

Thanks to anyone who plays and rates the game, and thanks for reading!