Creating a Tetris App

A post-mortem about developing a Tetris game as a Christmas present

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Level Up Coding

10 min readJan 3, 2023

Two screenshots of the Tetris app. The first is the main menu with a black and white design and some falling snowflakes. The second is an in-game screenshot and shows a lot of colorful Tetris pieces with a one-wide gap at the left and an I piece about to be dropped into it. — The main menu and in-game design of the game. Image by author.

A few weeks before Christmas, my sister asked me whether I knew a Tetris app without any tracking and ads. I didn’t, but this gave me a great idea for a Christmas present: Programming one for her.

Tetris is a well-known and simple game, so I felt confident that I would be able to develop…

Creating a Tetris App

A post-mortem about developing a Tetris game as a Christmas present

Written by Christian Behler