ahmedsaad313 / lightsoundgame

Test your memory with this light and sound game

Pre-work - Memory Game

Memory Game is a Light & Sound Memory game to apply for CodePath's SITE Program.

Submitted by: NAME

Time spent: 2 hours spent in total

Link to project: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/lightsound-game?path=index.html%3A1%3A0

Required Functionality

The following required functionality is complete:

• Game interface has a heading (h1 tag), a line of body text (p tag), and four buttons that match the demo app
• "Start" button toggles between "Start" and "Stop" when clicked.
• Game buttons each light up and play a sound when clicked.
• Computer plays back sequence of clues including sound and visual cue for each button
• Play progresses to the next turn (the user gets the next step in the pattern) after a correct guess.
• User wins the game after guessing a complete pattern
• User loses the game after an incorrect guess

The following additional features are implemented:

• List anything else that you can get done to improve the app!

• I decided to allow the user to play the game endlessly and attempt to get as high of a score as possible. The pattern is randomly generated along the way and the score and highscore is recorded.

• I also fixed a problem I found where someone could have potentially cheated by putting in their guesses as the pattern was still being displayed. I did this by not allowing the guess function to utilize any new inputs if the functions playClueSequence or playSingleClue were in process.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

Reflection Questions

1. If you used any outside resources to help complete your submission (websites, books, people, etc) list them here. I used w3schools.com to learn how to come up with unique colors using rgb() in css. I also used the same site to learn how to manipulate the html through javascript.

2. What was a challenge you encountered in creating this submission (be specific)? How did you overcome it? (recommended 200 - 400 words) One thing I was frustrated with is while working on the game I realized it was very easy for someone to potentialy cheat. There is nothing preventing some from putting in the pattern as the sequence was still playing. To fix this problem, I set up a boolean that turned true while the pattern was being displayed, and false after the pattern finished. The guess fucntion then checked the boolean whenever a button was clicked and determind whether it should accept the input or not. At certain points through the project, I was slightly taken back by how much new material and information there was given to us in quick succession, especially pertaining to the code we cut and pasted that enables sound fucntionality. However, after reading it over a few times, I realized I might not understand the details or be familiar with every function regarding how the code actually creates the sound but what I do know is how the end result affects the project ultamitely. Another issue I ran into was I wanted to use more unique colors for my backround and body. The solution I was able to come to was to use to rgb function to create specific colors that fit in with how I want the project to look at the end.

3. What questions about web development do you have after completing your submission? (recommended 100 - 300 words) One thing I have always been more interested in when it comes to web development is backend. While this project was completely front end, it got me thinking about how I can implement a backend system to improve the user experience. While I will leave more specific details as to what some of my ideas were for the next questions, ultamitely what I can say is that this project got me even more curious regarding the implementaion of a backend system.

4. If you had a few more hours to work on this project, what would you spend them doing (for example: refactoring certain functions, adding additional features, etc). Be specific. (recommended 100 - 300 words) I think a feature that would really make this project stand out is if there was no cap on when the game ends. In other words, the game would go on continously until the user makes a mistake, and you then get a score based on how long you lasted. The endless sequence would be automatically randomly generated as the game went on (I decided to go back and work on this part after thinking out the idea). Then I would implement a backend system which allows for you to compare your score with the scores of your friends, and there would be a leaderboard for the best performers in the past week, month, and all time. The backend part may probably require more than a few more hours to completely understand and create however.

License

Copyright [Ahmed Saad]

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