Lockjaw: The Overdose
| LOCKJAW: The Overdose | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Damian Yerrick |
| Publisher(s) | Pin Eight |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
| Release | 2000 (PC version); 2002 (first GBA port); 2006 (latest version) |
| Gameplay info | |
| Next pieces | 3 |
| Playfield size | 10w x 20h |
| Hold piece | Yes |
| Hard drop | Firm drop, roughly 250 ms delay |
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Lockjaw: The Overdose (abbreviated TOD) is a freeware Tetris clone for GBA by Damian Yerrick.
At first, the gameplay of this clone isn't anything different from other Tetris clones, especially The New Tetris. But after playing for a while, the playfield starts shaking and distorting along with the music, hence the name. It was previously known under the name Tetanus On Drugs until the release of version 4 on July 22.
Gameplay
The rotation system of TOD, starting with milestone 4, can best be described as a Frankensteinian mix of SRS and TGM Rotation. When the player rotates a piece, the game first tries to kick the piece one cell to the right, one cell to the left, and finally one cell up.
TOD uses a so-called "step recover" method to reset lock delay after a floor kick: when a piece steps down, the lock delay recharges only by the amount of time the piece would take to fall through one cell.
TOD uses recursive gravity with the same "sticky" algorithm used by Tetris Blast. This allows more than 4 lines to be cleared with one piece; for this reason, the game extends the scoring table of The New Tetris, where each line is the sum of the previous two (a Fibonacci sequence):
| single | 100 points |
| double | 200 points |
| triple | 300 points |
| t*tr*s | 500 points |
| 5 lines | 800 points |
| 6 lines | 1300 points |
| 7 lines | 2100 points |
| 8 lines | 3400 points |
| line containing a silver square | 500 points |
| line containing a gold square | 1000 points |
See also
- Tetripz, a fan game by Mute Fantasies that inspired TOD
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