Light and Sound Memorization Game Website is a Light & Sound Memory game to apply for CodePath's SITE Program.
Link to project: (https://glitch.com/edit/#!/chambray-pastoral-brontomerus)
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 optional features are implemented:
- Any HTML page elements (including game buttons) has been styled differently than in the tutorial
- Buttons use a pitch (frequency) other than the ones in the tutorial
- More than 4 functional game buttons
- Playback speeds up on each turn
- Computer picks a different pattern each time the game is played
- Player only loses after 3 mistakes (instead of on the first mistake)
- Game button appearance change goes beyond color (e.g. add an image)
- Game button sound is more complex than a single tone (e.g. an audio file, a chord, a sequence of multiple tones)
- User has a limited amount of time to enter their guess on each turn
The following additional features are implemented:
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List anything else that you can get done to improve the app!
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Added a background image instead of a just colour.
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Changed the start/stop button colours.
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Changed the title and body colours, fonts and sizes to fill the screen.
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Changed the pattern of the lights.
If you recorded multiple GIFs for all the implemented features, you can add them here:
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- If you used any outside resources to help complete your submission (websites, books, people, etc) list them here.
W3 Schools and Stack Overflow.
- What questions about web development do you have after completing your submission?
I have plenty of questions about Web development and plenty more to learn about it! One question I am interested in is how would I create a website that could have multiple pages that it could click through. This would be useful to know as I would have liked to add a starting menu to the website before launching into the game. Perhaps the user could login in so they could save their progress, choose their difficulty level and maybe even change the theme, all executed in separate popups or pages. Perhaps one way to create multiple pages would be through utilizing classes and features. I think Classes would be a great way to keep certain aspects the same such as the website's title always displaying at the top of the game, keeping a general color/design theme/layout. Then adding unique features to certain new pages. A second question would be what other languages can be used to create websites? I believe Python is very popular for the backend of certain websites but how would this interact with the other files? Thirdly, when not using a platform like Glitch how do the files continuously interact with each other so you can see their progress. Perhaps this is something more technical and why we used Glitch in the first place.
- 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.
If I had a few more extra hours I would have made a pop up gif of a sad or happy mole depending if the user won or lost to help support my twist of a theme of ‘Whac-A-Mole.’ I would have achieved this through declaring the image/gif and pop up feature through HTML, then adding an activation feature within the winGame() and loseGame() functions. In addition, it would have been cool to add in different sound effects such as a ‘whack’ or ‘bang’ sound. This would also support my theme of Whac-A-Mole and make it more comedic for the user. My method of achieving this would be most likely trying to find a cartoon sound effects library in JavaScript and replacing the current tunes with that. Another feature I would have added is varying difficulty levels. Once you have played the games a few times over it is relatively easy. A method to combat this would be to give the user the option of how difficult they would want to make the game. I could achieve this through adding a menu function before the game's homepage lands, where the user could specify their desired difficulty. This would be executed through the use of functions with varying speeds the lights/mole flashes up.
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