QuickTetris While not the best Tetris clone out there, this one comes with a full walkthrough of how the game was made - it's always nice to get behind the scenes!

Coming from a Ruby background, Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson wanted to learn JavaScript (who can blame him? ;-) ) and decided to document the process. Since he wanted to concentrate on the code and not the game design he let his learning project be a Tetris game.

Now, as I said in the beginning the game itself could use a bit of polishing but the important part is the detailed blog posts explaining the hows and whys of the game.

Thomas opted for regular DHTML techniques with blocks made of div elements and so on with a bit of jQuery UI effects sprinkled on top. There's also a nice soundscape provided by SoundManager2.
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