Termtris

A Tetris clone for the terminal, written in Rust.

Game Structure

• GAME BOARD: The main play area where pieces fall. It is 10 cells wide and 20 cells tall.
• NEXT: Shows the next piece that will appear after the current piece lands.
• S: Score - points earned by clearing lines. More lines cleared at once yields higher points.
• L: Lines - total number of complete lines cleared.
• L: Level - current difficulty level. Increases every 10 lines cleared, making pieces fall faster.

Controls

Key	Action
← / →	Move piece left/right
↓	Soft drop
↑	Rotate piece
Space	Hard drop
P	Pause/Resume
Q	Quit

Build & Run

From Source

cargo run --release

From Binary (Linux/macOS/Windows)

Quick Install (Linux/macOS/WSL/Git Bash)

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snvshal/termtris/main/install.sh | sh

For Windows PowerShell, download the .zip from GitHub Releases and extract termtris.exe into a folder on your PATH. On older Linux systems with glibc < 2.31, the installer will automatically use the musl build.

Manual Download

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases for your platform. Checksum files (.sha256) are provided alongside each release artifact.

Supported Platforms

• Linux: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, x86_64-unknown-linux-musl, aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, aarch64-unknown-linux-musl
• macOS: x86_64-apple-darwin, aarch64-apple-darwin
• Windows: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

Requirements

• Rust (latest stable)
• cargo

License

MIT