abinocoe/wdi-project-1

JavaScript lights game

LIT UP

First Independent Project for General Assembly WDI22(Hashtag)

Introduction

Lit Up is a single player game with a simple premise: Just turn off all the lights. Easy, right?

How To Play

The game board is a grid of squares with some pre-picked boxes already alight. To switch a light on or off, you just need to click on your chosen square. This is where things get slighty more tricky: each time you click on a light, your click will also switch every square that touches your clicked square's sides.

Your moves are counted as you play, and once you complete a level, you are given the option to move up to the next level or replay your last one, maybe you could improve your score?

Build

Lit Up was built using HTML, CSS and JQuery, from an Object Oriented approach. Google Webfonts Quicksand and Audiowide are featured. The sound of Ajay making a pop noise with his mouth has been used to audibly notify player of a click. A small amount of css animation was used on game setup.

Features

Seventeen Levels

Moves counter updates during game play

Level indicator same as above

Reset button to start level again should you get stuck

Modal gives the replay or next level options upon completion of a level

Challenges

The biggest challenges I faced making the game were bug based, and both kind of similar. I found that on completing the second level, the load of the next level was displayed incorrectly - more lights were lit than were supposed to be. After many console.logs I was able to identify that I was experiencing a problem with control flow, essentially the event listeners on my modal buttons were being added over again each time the modal was displayed, so after level two, if I clicked next level, the next level function was being run twice.

I made an attempt at animating the elements which although worked I was fairly displeased with.

Wins

The algorithm

or if/else statement in the function (litUp.getIndex) that determines which lights are to be toggled was very satisfying to write, and gratifying in that it worked straight away.

The modal

I'd never heard of these before beginning the project so was pleased I was able to implement this technology on my own.

The light effect

looks so good