---
title: "Example Tetris"
subtitle: "A full-featured open source Tetris clone to learn from."
date: 2016-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2016/03/example-tetris
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Example Tetris

*A full-featured open source Tetris clone to learn from.*

![image](example-tetris.png)

Jerorx posted to the Phaser Forum: "I discovered Phaser about a month ago and I decided to make a Tetris clone to explore the engine. Tetris' gameplay doesn't necessarily call for using a full-fledged game engine, but I tried to cram in as many relevant functionalities as I could for practice, and all that combined might make for an interesting example for other Phaser users. It includes:

* Changing the controls of the game
* Sound effects and music, which can be turned on/off using the relevant button, and are interrupted on the pause screen
* Tweens to animate the clearing and collapsing of lines
* A loop to manage the fall of the tetromino, which accelerates as you complete more lines
* A leaderboard served by a PHP back end to keep track of the scores of the players
* Text using bitmapfonts
* Plus the necessary basics such as imput management and rendering the sprites"

[Read More](http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/20925-example-tetris/)

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