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Mind Puzzle Game in C#
This is a simple game written in C# in which user presses Up, Down, Left, Right arrow keys to play this game.
Description:
This is a simple game written in C# in which user presses Up, Down, Left, Right arrow keys to play this game.
The objective of this game is to arrange 1 to 15 numbers in ascending order where the numbers in grid are in random.
User will have 10 minutes of time to complete this game.
If user wins the game he gets displayed in how many moves he completed the game.
Step By Step:
Step 1: Generating random values & Creating Labels on the form.
public void createlabels()
{
int i = 0; int val;
for (int j = 0; j
< ROW_COUNT; j++)
for (int k = 0; k
< COLUMN_COUNT; k++)
{
val = gridVal[j, k];
label[i] = new Label();
label[i].Font = new Font("Microsoft
Sans Serif", 15F, FontStyle.Bold, GraphicsUnit.Point,
((byte)(0)));
label[i].Width = 60;
label[i].Height = 60;
label[i].Left = k * 60;
label[i].Top = j * 63;
label[i].Tag = 0;
label[i].TextAlign = System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter;
if (i != 15)
{
label[i].BackColor = Color.SeaGreen;
label[i].BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
label[i].Text = val.ToString();
}
else
{
label[i].BackColor = Color.Transparent;
label[i].BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None;
label[i].Text = "";
label[i].Visible = false;
z = i;
}
this.Controls.Add(label[i]);
i++;
}
}
Step 2: This is to handle KeyDown event handlers.
private void Key_Down(object sender, KeyEventArgs
e)
{
switch (e.KeyCode)
{
case Keys.Left:
{
moveLeft();
keyCount++;
}
break;
case Keys.Right:
{
moveRight();
keyCount++;
}
break;
case Keys.Up:
{
moveUp();
keyCount++;
}
break;
case Keys.Down:
{
moveDown();
keyCount++;
}
break;
default:
System.Console.Beep();
break;
}
if (check())
{
timerThread.Abort();
gameStr
= string.Format("You
took {0} moves to arrange numbers", keyCount);
MessageBox.Show(gameStr, "Game
Over!");
Application.Exit();
}
}
Step 3: Creatng the thread to display time.
timerThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(timerFunc));
timerThread.IsBackground = true;
timerThread.Start();
private void
timerFunc()
{
string str;
for (min = 0; min < 10; min++)
{
for (int sec = 0;
sec < 60; sec++)
{
str = string.Format("Mind Puzzle
00:0{0}:{1} ", min, sec);
this.Text =
str;
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
}
if (min == 10)
{
this.Enabled = false;
MessageBox.Show("Better
Luck next time ", "You Lose the
Game!");
Application.Exit();
}
}
Step 4: Checking the grid values whether they arranged in ascending order or not.
private bool check()
{
checkVal = new int[4,
4] {
{1, 2, 3, 4},
{5, 6, 7, 8},
{9, 10, 11, 12},
{13, 14, 15,
0},
};
for (int i = 0; i
< 4; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j
< 4; j++)
{
if
(gridVal[i, j] != checkVal[i, j])
return false;
}
}
return true;
}