🧩mips-tetris

Welcome to my implementation of the classic game Tetris, but ... written entirely in MIPS Assembly!

This game was developed for CSCB58: Computer Organization, and highlits the transition from digital circuits and hardware into software language. You can find a brief design document titled MIPS Tetris - B58 Final Design Document.pdf with a concise overview. View the video demonstration on YouTube.

Game Features

• All tetronimoes represented (with different colours)
• Holding functionality
• Movement, including rotation
• Incremental Gravity (levels get harder as you progress)
• Line clearing and score counter

Get Started

• Use a MIPS emulator, ex: MARS or Saturn --> Note that Saturn works in browser, so you can copy-paste tetris.asm directly into the editor, set the Bitmap controls and start playing immediately
• Set the Bitmap display as follows:

Design Explanation (Simplified)

• Uses IO polling to get keyboard inputs (ASD for left/down/right, W for rotate, H to hold, Q to quit)
• Forces a game loop consisting of drawing a piece to the framebuffer, handling collisions, locking pieces, and generating a new one
• Handles scoring, gravity, RNG, and game ending