Building Memory

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Building Memory

• Notes from class on 11/13/06

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The Game

• Think about what types of objects we will need in
  our system and some of the properties and
  capabilities of those objects.
• The next slides show the results of our
  brain-storming

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CompoundGraphicBetter Name - Card

• Has two pictures (face, and background)
• Ability to flip from one to another

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Theme

• All cards that we are matching should have a
  theme.

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Deck

• Holds all the cards

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Timer

• Controls the length of time the user can play the
  game.

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Cursor

• Change cursor to a hand or some other image
  rather than an arrow.

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Board

• Place to put the cards
• Randomly shuffled at first

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Card Holder

• Holds onto the first card that has been selected.
• Perhaps holds onto the second card that has been
  selected as well.

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Game Engine

• Mouse Listener talks to it
• Knows which cards have been selected.

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MouseListener

• Listens for cards to be clicked upon.

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Restart/New Game Button

• Starts/restarts game

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Score

• Keeps the score
• Need to display score somehow

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Background Music

• Allow the user to customize their memory-playing
  experience

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Help/Hint Button

• Gives the player a hint about where a match could
  be.

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Difficulty Selection Mechanism

• Allows the user to specify how easy/difficult
  they want their board to be.

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Number of Players Selection Mechanism

• One-player or two-player game

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Player

• Object that represents the player

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AI Simulator

• Allow human player to play against the computer.
• Need to change player selection to allow for
  human vs. human or human vs. computer players.

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Menu

• Organize all the different settings and
  customizations for the game

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Some Notes

• Some of these objects are directly from the
  problem domain
• Some of these objects creep into implementation
  details
• Focus first on the overall system and then worry
  about the specific implementation details.

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Next time

• Think about how the user will interact with the
  system
• What should the user have to do to play the
  game
• How should the game look