Adding some color

Adding some color to the game is quite easy. Since our game pieces use sprites that are made of string, we can simply make a mapping between a letter and a specific color. With that mapping, each piece can have its own color, and our game bursts with color.

In the previous article, we made the game almost playable. It was almost playable because we could interact with it, but the logic to remove completed lines was not there. In this article, we are going to add several types of pieces to the game and the logic that detects full lines and removes them.

In the previous article, we developed the base model for our game. In this article, we will be creating the UI for the game. The UI will use the model previously developed to make a playable game. It will not be the complete game, but having something you can use and play with enables faster feedback. We need feedback to know if the model is easy to use (it should be, because we wrote it using Test Driven Development), but we also need feedback on what’s the next functionality that we should develop. I prefer to do development in small steps and collect feedback as I go, even when I am doing it alone.