BASTET(6)

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💖 BASTET 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Games Manual section 6 page for bastet, and I need you to sit down for this one because she is not like other Tetris clones 💅

✨ NAME ✨

bastet — a Tetris(r) clone with a "bastard" block-choosing AI 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bastet

that's it. no flags, no args, just vibes and suffering ✨

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so bastet (short for "bastard tetris" 💀) is a Tetris(r) clone that is actively trying to give you the worst possible block. like, not randomly bad — specifically bad. targeted. personal. 🙈

playing bastet can be a painful experience, especially if you're the type of player who builds "canyons" and then just waits around for the long I-shaped block like a little princess 👑 because bestie… she knows. she sees your canyon. and she will not send the I-piece. periodt.

✨ USAGE ✨

bastet tries to conform as much as possible to the tetris guidelines — so for the actual rules of the game, go read those, we're not restating them here 🎀

in the starting menu you can configure the key bindings, and the defaults are:

  • DOWN — moves the tetromino down (one single step) ⬇️
  • LEFT — moves the tetromino left ⬅️
  • RIGHT — moves the tetromino right ➡️
  • SPACE — rotates CW 🔄
  • UP — rotates CCW 🔁
  • ENTER — drops the tetromino as far down as possible (hard drop) 💥
  • P — pauses the game ⏸️
  • CTRL+C — exits the game without any further prompt 🚪

✨ PLAYING MODES ✨

the game includes two playing modes 🌈

in the second one (the harder one 😭) you do not get the preview of the next tetromino, and the algorithm is modified to take advantage of this. yes. she gets smarter when you can't see. iconic behaviour, honestly 🧚

✨ FILES ✨

  • $(HOME)/.bastetrc — user options ⚙️
  • $(HOME)/.bastetscores — user-specific high scores file (used only if the system high scores file is unavailable) 🏆
  • /var/games/bastet.scores2 — system-wide high scores for bastet 🌍

✨ OPTIONS ✨

None. 🎀

(yeah. zero. nothing to configure. the only option is accepting your fate 💀)

✨ BUGS ✨

Many. 😭💀

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Federico Poloni <f.poloni@gmx.com> 🫶

real talk: this page is from FEBRUARY 2009 and it lives in the Games Manual section, so shoutout to that era of the bastet source and version for bringing us this masterpiece 🌸 mwah, no notes, slay 💅✨
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