Gnometris
Gnometris is a tetromino game that comes with the Ubuntu as part of the gnome-games package.
- Hardcoded playfield width: 14 columns. Ouch. This negates the slight I surplus that ordinarily makes back-to-back tetrising bearable; players need to skim a lot more. ([url=http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-games/trunk/gnometris/TODO?revision=1339&view=markup]TODO.txt[/url] lists configurable field width as a known missing feature.)
- No wall kick
- No hold piece
- One preview
- Ghost piece is present but disappears whenever it overlaps the falling piece.
- Clockwise OR counterclockwise rotation, chosen before the game starts.
- Sound effects do not interrupt each other; instead, they queue up. Even at 60 TPM, I could still easily play fast enough to get 15 seconds ahead of the sound effects.
- DAS is based on operating system autorepeat. System > Preferences > Keyboard lets the player set it faster than Windows or Mac Control Panel ever did, but as with anything else that uses OS autorepeat, the rotate key will discharge DAS.