help for tetris plz

[newatthis]

hey there, i took a computer science course at my school and i kind of regret it, anyways the final project is to make a game and i'm pretty retarded for making trying to make a game like tetris, but i did. I'm able to get my shapes to move, but i'm not 2 concerned with rotation at the minute. Right now i'm trying to do collision detections and stack the blocks. All i've really done is design my blocks and made them fall. I've tried to use a 2-d array (boolean type) and store the value at false. I dont really know how to correspond my playing grid with this array. It would be great if anyone could tell me how to correspond the array with my playing grid. Here is what i've done so far, the programming is pretty bad and messy. Also if there is another easier method to this, i'd be glad to hear it thnx

[zedx_26]

Firs I thnk you should test for colision before thinking about rotating it. Check if The blocks do not pass thorugh each other and do not exit the screen

[agnivohneb]

I think you should create a grid so when you move your block left it will move over 5-10 px (not to sure what the actual is) and not 1 px. next create a 3d array (boolean type) so you can use it as your x and y. and have somthing like

code:

% declare taken spot var takenspot : array 1 .. *, 1 .. * of boolean for i : 1 .. *   for j : 1 .. *     takenspot (i,j) := false   end for end for ......... if takenspot (whatever) = true then   dont put block there else   put block there end if

This code wont run tho but u get the idea.

I just finished my game project (Tic Tac Toe) so i kinda know what u mean.

[fishtastic]

i am working on my tetris.
i use 1-d array for blocks

[fishtastic]

you tetris is too long. use 2d array will be helpful.

btw, mine is working perfectly and it's less than 300 lines .now i'm trying to make is shorter.