Techmino is a block-stacking game originally made by MrZ, along with several improvements by the open-source community. The game is made using Love2D. It has many game modes, including Sprint, Marathon, VS, a fully-customizable custom mode, and more!

Yes. Techmino is licensed under the LGPL-3.0 license. You can find the source code here.

1. Get the game from GitHub releases.
2. Download the correct file based on your OS.
3. Extract compressed files as necessary.
4. Run the executable.

Techmino can be run on the following platforms:

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux (except ARM-based devices)
• Android
• iOS*
• Probably other platforms, if they support LÖVE, the game engine used by Techmino. (Someone in the Discord had limited success with a Nintendo Switch.)

*see the next FAQ entry for details.

You need to play it in order to unlock the other modes.
Lines coming out from mode icons indicate whether this mode can unlock other modes.
To unlock subsequent modes, you need to reach at least B rank on the mode — this would be 1m 2s for Sprint 10L, or 3m 3s for Sprint 40L.

There's a cheat code to unlock all the modes in the game.
Here are the instructions:

1. Go to the main menu.
2. Open the terminal by pressing on the Techmino logo 4 times.
3. Type in unlockall and press Enter. Follow the instructions that the command gives you.

Close, but no.
Some important differences from Guideline are:

• It defaults to a custom rotation system based on SRS but has more kicks and O-spin.
• The game has allspin.
• The game uses a different attack table.

Yes! Feel free to adjust button mappings in Settings → Key Settings.

In the main menu, click the button with a globe icon. That's the select language button.

1. Miya is a virtual live streamer who used to play a lot of block stacking games. Voice language: Japanese (line clears); Japanese, Chinese and Cat (others)
2. Mono is an artist, however her online profile had been wiped clean. Voice language: Japanese
3. Xiaoya is a fellow block stacker player. She introduces herself as "Xia Xiaoya, a brand new type of duck." Voice language: English (line clears); Chinese (others)
4. Flore is a fellow block stacker player, featured in this article. Voice language: English (line clears), various languages (others)
5. Miku is a voice bank for the Japanese voice synthesizer Vocaloid. Voice language: Japanese
6. Zundamon is a voice bank for various voice synthesizer programs. Voice language: Japanese

While MrZ does not have a voice pack, there used to be a "Welcome to Tech" voice clip that was recorded by MrZ himself.

The Techmino.exe file (Windows) or game.love file (anything else) are valid zip archives.
Using a software like 7-Zip, you can view, extract or replace any file(s) in it, including assets and Lua scripts.
Alternatively, you can check out the game's source code on GitHub.

The game has an anti-addiction system that prevents playing for too long.
It only takes into effect if you're playing the game in Chinese with a Sprint 10L time of over 10s, a Sprint 40L time of over 32.6s, and you have been playing for 4 hours.
The timer resets at midnight.
Although this feature isn't required because the game hasn't been registered in China, it's still a pretty cool Easter egg.

Previously we demanded that you ask for permission before doing so, but the legality of such requirement has been questioned.

However, we do beg you that, if you decide to share any screenshots, videos or live streams of Techmino, please keep them within the Tetris community.
We do not want too much publicity for the time being.

Probably never.

You can do it by clicking or pressing the “TECHMINO” icon on the home page or pressing the “C” key on your keyboard several times.
Note that external keyboards may not work correctly on iOS and iPadOS.

Try plugging and unplugging your keyboard, or reconnecting your keyboard if you are using a Bluetooth keyboard.
This kind of issue typically only happens on mobile devices.
For iOS and iPadOS users, that is an issue we cannot fix for now.
This might be related to the iOS distro of LÖVE or how iOS recognises external keyboards.
At the same time, you can still use the on-screen virtual keys.

You probably have enabled “Simplistic Mode.”
In this mode, only a few essentials modes and functions are available.
Simply go to the settings and uncheck the “Simplistic Mode” to fix it.

It means “Tetris”! Due to possible risk of receiving DMCAs from TTC, we have decided to replace all instances of the word “Tetris” in the game with 󰀕.

The Techmino OST is now available on SoundCloud!
You can download the full soundtracks here free of charge (with a CC BY 3.0 License).

We list the rank requirements for each mode in our map!
It's usually pretty accurate - especially since game updates have slowed down recently.
If you want to look at the game's source code to find the requirements, here's how you can do it:
First, go to Techmino's GitHub repo, then navigate to /parts/modes to find the mode file (.lua) you want to open.
After that, look for a piece of the code that looks like this (this will going to be different for each mode; this example uses sprint_40l.lua):

if P.stat.row<40 then return end
local T=P.stat.time
return
    T<=26 and 5 or
    T<=36 and 4 or
    T<=52.6 and 3 or
    T<=92.9 and 2 or
    T<=183 and 1 or
    0
end,

The first line means that if P.stat.row is less than 40 (which means that you didn’t finish the 40L sprint), your grade is not recorded.
The variable’s name that goes after local is the category of the requirement (in this example, time (in seconds)).
The 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 correspond to X, U, S, A, and B grades in the game.
0 also means your grade is not recorded (in this example, when your time exceeds 183 seconds).

If you really want to test out the latest features of Techmino, the GitHub CI would generate a snapshot version of the app for every commit.
Note that the snapshot versions might be unstable and contain many bugs, and that you need to be logged in to your GitHub account to download the artifacts (game builds).
If you want to test them out on iOS devices, you need to install the the artifacts (game builds) manually.

Simply go to Statistics > Data Management, and you will see these buttons. Then you can copy and paste the data using your clipboard.

Here's an example block skin for reference:

• The block skin is a .png file with a dimension of at least 240 × 90.
• The image is divided into a 3 ×8 array of blocks, with each block having a dimension of 30× 30.

To import your skin into the game:

1. Make your block skin and export it into a .png file.
2. Move your skin to ./media/image/skin/.
3. Add the following code to ./main.lua at around line 315, after SKIN.load (REMEMBER to replace <SKIN_FILE_NAME> with the filename of the skin, and Skin name with the skin's name):
   'name="<Skin name>",path='media/image/skin/<SKIN_FILE_NAME>.png',
4. Start the game. You will find your skin appearing in the block skin list.

TIPS:

• <Skin name> allows almost any character, so you can set your skin's name something like: Diệt Slime suốt 300 năm, tôi level MAX lúc nào chẳng hay.
• <Skin name> should only contain ~15 characters max! So don't use the example above or if you don't want to see your skin's name go out of selector's box

Please use this table as a reference:

Use this table to calculate B2B2B meter (on the left of the playfield):