Guess the Peppa is a single player game that involves the user guessing cards from a deck of Peppa themed cards. The goal of the game is to guess what card the computer selected from the deck. To help with making the guess, there are a set of questions you can ask to eliminated cards from the deck, after a certain amount of attempts, you are prompted to make a final guess.
The Card class allows you to create a single card object. This class allowed us to create the appearance of the card and the attributes of it such if the card's characters wore jewlery or has facial hair or both. These feature are known as a instance variable which we will use to check with against the Computer selected card to see if they are a match.
The Deck Class assembles single card object in a game board array. Everytime the game is run, the code utilizes *switch statements* which allows us to paint a deck in a 4 X four pattern based on whether row is divisble by 4. Switch case statement are the replacement to a tree of if statment. When there are multiple check are being done and they all correlate to each other, its better to use a switch statement. In addition to this, the deck class has methods that set the red X image over a card in the deck if the instance variable of that card int he deck does not match with the instance variables of the card the computer chose.
The Game Board class keeps track and sets all the attributes of a card in code. Each card as a string value that tells you name of the character a boolean values that correspond to whethere or not the character has a certain attribute. When we first started designing the cards, chose which cards had what attributes to create as many combinations without repeating the exact same attributes within the card. We mapped this out on a googal doc and the converted our choices into code.
The Game Board class also intstilaizes the content of the dialogue box which conains all the questions a user can "ask" to the CPU to eliminated cards from the deck.
The splash frame is the home screen of our game. We used our quarter 2 skills to paint picture object of peppa characters, the background image, and draw a string to tell the user to press the enter key. The Splash frame implement the Action and Key Listerner features. These implementations allow the code to detect when the user pressed the enter key. If if detect the keycode 10 it will close the splash frame and open open up the Guess Peppa Frame as well as play the peppa soundtrack.
The Picture and CardPicture classes were used to set the images in this game. These classes also had methods that were used to display the cross over eliminated characters.
This class played the music of our game. When the player starts the game, the music would play and loop until the player stops running the program.
For certain parts of the game, we needed to use JButtons to make it easy for the user to interact with th game. We also were able to organize our game by creating seperate JPanels with various attributes for that part of the overall frame. Using JLabels and JTextArea, we were able to put text on our game without the use of the g.drawString() method.
To incorporate what we learned about reading and writing files this year, we used a timer that would write the total time the player took to complete the game. When the game frame is first launched, a timer starts and runs until the person finishes the game. The total time passed is then written into our file called Scores.txt. Then the data from this file is sorted from least to greatest and then read from our Score Frame.
Throughout this project, we not only practiced our coding skills but also our project management skills using Trello. Trello is a unique web application that allows us to map out the details of our project as well. You can assign label and members to specific tasks. For our project, we mapped out each class and the tasks that needed to be done for each class. Trello allowed to share images and information easily without having to commit small details. With the help of this tool, we were able to organize our thought and ideas to make a sucessful working game. Trello is a great tool to use when we make decisions or have brief meetings on the progress of our game.
Overall, this experience was IMMACULATE. We really enjoyed codig together and discovering new skills while coding our game. We were able to incorporate loops, if statement, arrays, switch statements, reading a file, and more. While we were making this game, we were also studying for our AP Exams. Making this game allowed us to apply the concepts we were learning making us more confident in our knowledge of these topics.
Here is a video demonstration.
library-loom-1-june-2022_djiPP93P.mp4
Below is the link to our Presentation that goes in detail about our game.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o2jRVmaubzYdknRSyNwVI8GKZdU5J9Ag2VmwBAyFFiI/edit?usp=sharing