cuyo

cuyo [-d] [-f] [-g widthxheight] [-h|-?] [--version versions] [ld-file]

cuyo is a Puyo Puyo / Tetris style puzzle game for one or two players. Pieces fall from the top of the playfield and the player must connect matching blobs; once enough identical blobs touch, they explode. Clearing them triggers chain reactions that destroy grass or other obstacles, which is usually the level's real goal.Each of the many built-in levels has its own rules, graphics and music, and the game ships with a level description language so players can create and load their own levels via an ld-file argument. In two-player mode, one player's chain reactions drop garbage into the opponent's field.

-d

Enable debug mode.

Run in fullscreen mode.

Set the window size (for example -g 1024x768).

Print a short help message and exit with status 0.

Print a short help message and exit with status 1.

Activate special level versions using a comma-separated list of specifiers (difficulty, player count, eco, geek modes, etc.).

Path to a level description file to load and test custom levels.

a, Left Arrow

Move piece left.

Move piece right.

Rotate piece.

Drop piece faster (hard drop).

Pause the game / open menu.

Requires SDL for graphics and sound. Levels vary wildly in rules, objectives and visual style, so strategies learned in one level rarely transfer directly to the next. The project has been largely unmaintained for years but remains packaged by most major distributions.

cuyo was written by Mark Weyer and first released around 2001 as a free software homage to Puyo Puyo, but it quickly diverged by introducing per-level rule changes and a level description language. It is packaged in Debian and Ubuntu under the cuyo package.

tetris(6), bastet(6)