Ever thought Tetris is evil because it does not send you that straight "I" brick you are waiting to clear four rows at the same time? Well, Tetris probably isn't, but Bastet is designed to be *bad*.

Bastet stands for "bastard tetris", and is a Tetris(R) clone which, instead of choosing your next brick at random, expressly checks to see which one causes you the most trouble. Playing Bastet can be a painful experience!

Apart from that little feature, Bastet is a simple ncurses-based Tetris clone for Linux and (probably, never tried to compile there) the BSDs.

Features:
-increasing block speed
-selectable difficulty level
-high-score list
-good-looking and colourful :)
-one-key brick "drop-till-the end"
-pausing
-the brick preview now is a "would you like it, wouldn't you?" box. It displays the "most useful" brick (according to bastet's engine). Needless to say, you will *never* get that brick!

Keys (can be remapped by editing config.h) currently are:
-left/right: the obvious thing
-up/keypad 0 (if you have Num lock on): rotates brick
-space: drops current brick
-p: pause (any key to continue)
-q: ends current match (and eventually sends you into the highscore)
-ctrl-c: abruptly terminates the program (hopefully, without messing up your terminal)

Installation: all you need is ncurses (including headers and development libraries).
1) Edit config.h and the top of the Makefile to suit your preferences
2) make
3) make install (as root)

Note that bastet must be installed to handle the highscores file properly.v If you choose not to install it, set HISCORE appropriately.

Bastet is built on the top of Petris, a public-domain tetris clone by Peter Seidler. You can find its original README (with licence details) in this directory.

High scores: when I am writing this readme file, the higher scores I have seen are about 1400 points. Hint: starting from a level higher than the first will get you more points.

Translation: "Che scarso" means (more or less) "poooor", "shoddy!"

Contacting me: have a look at the file AUTHORS 

Have fun!
--federico
