Go to project: Catch the Type
Okay, so I can safely say I leveled up with this project. Pew. I am still surprised that I got through it. Of course I would never have even managed without the help of the amazing boyfriend. It’s actually been some days since we finished this project, but I haven’t had the energy to talk about it before now, haha! Still getting nervous twitches when thinking about it.
So this is another Jennifer Dewalt project. I didn’t do all the same functionalities that JD did. But the most important is there: catching the type aka. press some buttons to win a game.
As mentioned, I learned A LOT on this project:
- I made an array with some symbols and letters (not all letters from the alphabet, mainly because, there are SO many and I felt lazy).
- I made soooo many functions; I reused the getRandomInt function, an “addSymbol” function, a “startgame” function and a function that is called when a keyboard key is pressed. Man, I felt kinda overwhelmed, but I think that it will get easier with practice.
- Each symbol being dropped had to have the same top position but random left positions, so we used the getRandomInt to do that job as well.
- I used an if statement to determine whether the new symbol has been removed from the DOM. That’s because even though I used a .remove function it didn’t really remove it completely and that messed up the number of symbols on the page.
- The correct/wrong/missed counter was actually not the worst/hardest to do. It was pretty simple.
- I used a .fadeIn and .fadeOut function to make the startpage fade away and reveal the game. It was a fun little extra thing.
- I learned so many new things, but I don’t know how to write about them to be honest. Maybe I will update this page later on.
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