Memory Game is a Light & Sound Memory game to apply for CodePath's SITE Program.
Submitted by: Ashley Kestler
Time spent: 4 hours spent in total
Link to project: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/hissing-holy-scapula
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 (original buttons use the same pitch but I added additional pitches for the additional buttons)
- 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:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app!
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What was a challenge you encountered in creating this submission (be specific)? How did you overcome it? (recommended 200 - 400 words)
This was my first project using JavaScript, so that was a little challenging but also fun! I had some trouble with keeping the buttons properly aligned when inserting the images into the buttons. When I inserted the images into the buttons, they moved around and jumped out of alignment. I attempted to research the issue but couldn't come up with any helpful resources for this particular problem. I overcame it by specifying the height of the images in the CSS file; I tried different height dimensions until I found a size that did not affect the placement of the buttons but still looked visually appealing. I also made sure to set all images to be the same height so that they would look uniform. There was also a minor challenge in figuring out how to make the images only appear when the button is clicked or lit. After researching different CSS properties, I found the best way to accomplish this was to create CSS rules which set the opacity of the image to 0 by default, and set the opacity to 1 when the corresponding button is active or lit. -
What questions about web development do you have after completing your submission? (recommended 100 - 300 words)
I would love to continue learning more about JavaScript, as I really enjoyed it and found the functionality it offered to be exciting. I have questions about how to use multiple different JavaScript functions in the "onclick" attribute and how that might be implemented. I'd like to learn about animating elements and text. I also have questions about APIs and how to make web development projects using APIs. I would like to know how to make a loading image for a website. I have some basic knowledge about Bootstrap and how to use that to make a website mobile-friendly, but I would like to learn more about that as well to be sure that everything I make can be dynamically resized in order to be easily viewed on all different devices. -
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 would add more functions in order to simplify the "guess" function in the game. I would add an "isCorrect" function to contain the code for checking whether a guess is correct or not, rather than putting that code in the "guess" function. I would then call the "isCorrect" function from within the "guess" function. I would also research more about and add more of the optional features into the game, such as implementing more complex tones for the buttons and adding a timer. The timer in particular was a feature which I wanted to implement but didn't have the time to do enough research on.
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