Pre-work - Memory Game

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

Submitted by: Cyrus Adriel Arellano

Time spent: 32 hours spent in total

Link to project: (https://glitch.com/edit/#!/animated-marble-dandelion)

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 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:

• [✓] Easy, Medium, Hard difficulties
• [✓] Point system based off of time
• [✓] High score

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.

https://www.w3schools.com/

2. What was a challenge you encountered in creating this submission (be specific)? How did you overcome it? (recommended 200 - 400 words)

A challenge I encountered creating this submission was using setInterval and clearInterval. I had trouble setting the interval. I also had trouble clearing the interval every time the user was able to guess it right. I overcame this obstacle by using a website online and looking at examples on how clearInterval and setInterval was used and how they're connected. Another obstacle that I encountered was the points system and basing it off the time it took the user. I also wanted to include a high score system which was based off of the points system. I overcame this by drawing out the whole point based system so I can visualize it better because it was getting a little confusing when I was working on it. I also had trouble with printing out all of the variables but I overcame this with by rereading the instructions how to do it.

3. What questions about web development do you have after completing your submission? (recommended 100 - 300 words)

One question I have is how am I able to get other people's points and high scores from people around the world and display it into the screen? Another question I have is there a way to implement other languages so that html helps show it? Furthermore, how are ads used in websites? Also, how are animations made in websites?

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)

If I had more time to work on this project, I would add animations in the beginning of the game and the end of the game. It would have a drop down menu of the list of difficulties and the game over screen would be animated. Another additional function I would have liked to add is including other people's scores and displaying it on the screen. I would also want to redo the points system and have each difficulty scale with the setInterval. Furthermore, I would want to include better visuals and have the site look better than it being simple.

License

Copyright Cyrus Adriel Arellano

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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