Scoring

[taliyos]

A scoring system should be implemented to keep track of how the player is doing. This will additionally be useful when determining how to send "garbage" over the other players in multiplayer.

Scoring should be similar to Puyo Puyo, where continuous layers of chains are given higher rewards than a single layer.

Additional details will need to be researched.

[taliyos]

Scoring for Puyo Puyo is documented well at PuyoNexus.

The score per chain depends on a few different factors:

• The number of puyos cleared at once
• Chain Power (Seems to be an additional modifier related to the number of puyos in the chain)
• Color Bonus (Score modifier related to the number of different puyo colors cleared at once)
• Group Bonus (The number of puyos cleared in a single line/chain)

The formula is:

Score = (10 * puyosCleared) * (chainPower + colorBonus + groupBonus)

Since the terminology between Oypu and PuyoNexus is different (chain in Oypu refers to a group of 4 or more pieces of the same type that are connected while I think PuyoNexus uses chain to refer to the layers of pieces being destroyed before the next piece starts), here's some more details.

Score = (10 * totalPiecesClearedInLayer) * (chainPower * colorBonus * groupBonus)

chainPower =

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
0	8	16	32	64	96	128	160	192

(Increases by 32 after the 3rd chain)

colorBonus =

Types	Bonus
1	0
2	3
3	6
4	12
5	24

groupBonus =

Pieces in Chain	Bonus
4	0
5	2
6	3
7	4
8	5
9	6
10	7
11+	10

[taliyos]

Scoring wasn't fully implemented, so I'm leaving this open.