JavaScript Tetris

Why?

I was finishing up some tedious work around midnight a few days ago and decided I needed to code something fun. I have a few projects I’m already working on so I figured I’d do something small and quick. Lately I’ve been getting interested in game programming so I wanted to do something along those lines. “But what sort of game can I make in a few hours?” I thought to myself. Then it hit me. I was going to make Tetris. Read on…

jScroll HorizontalPane

jScrollHorizontalPane is a plugin based off of Kevin Luck’s jScrollPane which override’s the browsers default horizontal on any block level element with an overflow:auto style. It’s built on top of the jQuery library and uses both the dimensions plugin and the mouse wheel plugin. Provided with the download of the plugin there is a default jScrollHorizontalPane.css which can be used as a basis to edit the stylings on the scroll bar.

This plugin is completely cross browser, and also provides the ability to resize gracefully when the reset option is set to true. Additionally, intervals can be set by adding a class of “scroll-interval” which automatically adds dash’s to the track and provides automatic snap-to on the elements. Read on…