This is the preliminary info page for the game referred to in the title bar (look up at the top of your browser-thing!), a block-dropping game of sheer entertainment and excitement (features may not be implemented at this time). The underlying idea is to create a clone of Capcom's utterly unfamous but exceptionally dang good Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo.
Still unconditionally lost? Well then, let me help you out.
Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo (Super Puzzle Fighter X in Japan) is what you could safely call a Columns remake, or less accurately but not entirely off the mark, a Tetris wannabe. Coloured blocks--red, yellow, green, and blue--fall in pairs. You, the player, rotate them in order to create 'lines' of the same colour, or even larger blocks.
Then, when a breaker block comes your way, you line it up with the right colour, and whackamole, it clears out that block, and any blocks 'in line' and with the proper colour. Badda bing, badda boom, it's wacky hijinks in right here in Pixel City!
Now this isn't getting into things like Crusher Gems, Time Bricks, Super Combos, Joined Blocks, or the other player! Capcom's game featured a slew of selectable characters from Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, and a cameo or two from Warzard and Cyberbots, as a sort of wrapper gimmick.
If ever completed, the clone--UMBDFDO!--will feature neato things like single player Score Into Heaven Above! mode, selectable characters, two player Duel To Fame, Glory, and The Emergency Room! complete with network play via TCP/IP, theme support, and a variety of other things! Who knows! The future is so far from now!
(The thought may have occurred to you to ask: why no gameplay photos to make all these concepts easier to swallow? Because my code isn't far enough along to have any gameplay to show, and I'm sure if I posted photos of SPF2, I'd get the ire of Capcom pretty quickly! Tsk and sigh!)
Some links that might just be handy? Why sure!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blockdropper: the official and far more detailed page about this project, and where you can actually find FILES! Zowie!
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=79093: where you'll find yourself what sorts of mailing lists we have assembled here. I'd say join blockdropper-users or maybe announce, but don't expect much in the way of boisterous conversation.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/blockdropper: A web-link to the CVS archive for the game. It is highly recommended that you use this as opposed to the File section--it's likely to be much more current.
And there you have it.
Linnard--04/17/03