Rust Tetris with SDL2

A Tetris clone written in Rust using the SDL2 graphics library.

Features

• Classic Tetris game mechanics
• Smooth 2D rendering via SDL2
• Keyboard controls
• Score system

Requirements

• Rust (stable) — install via rustup
• SDL2 — graphics and input
• SDL2_ttf — for rendering text (e.g., score display)

SDL2 and SDL2_ttf installation

Linux

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev

macOS (using Homebrew)

brew install sdl2 sdl2_ttf

Windows

Use vcpkg or manually install SDL2 and SDL2_ttf developer packages. Make sure the .ddl files are in your PATH or project folder at runtime.

Building the Project

Clone the repository and build in release mode:

git clone https://github.com/CieriA/rusty-tetris
cd rusty-tetris
cargo build --release

Running the game

cargo run --release

Controls

• Left Arrow / A — Move the piece left
• Right Arrow / D — Move the piece right
• Down Arrow / S — Soft Drop
• Space — Hard Drop
• Up Arrow / W / Right Control — Rotate the piece clockwise
• Q / Left Control — Rotate the piece counterclockwise

Development Notes

This project uses the following crates:

• sdl2
• rand

TO regenerate documentation locally:

cargo doc --open

License

This project is licensed under the ISC License. For more info see the LICENSE file.