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Build it yourself: no dawdling

What we are doing

Your game, your idea. Add a strict rule: in your turn, if you wait more than 3 seconds (180 frames) without pressing, you lose, just like a wrong press.

Your turn

In the player's turn, count the frames since the last press (or since the turn began). After about 180 frames without a press, the game is over. The show does not count, and every press starts the count again.

Skills: Game states, The game loop

All steps

  1. Get the canvas and the pen
  2. A dark board
  3. The first pad
  4. Two colors for every pad
  5. All four pads
  6. A function that draws
  7. Light a pad
  8. Draw again and again
  9. The sequence to remember
  10. Show the round
  11. Light a pad for a while
  12. Go dark again
  13. The computer shows a pad
  14. Show the whole sequence
  15. Watch, then your turn
  16. Check each press
  17. Play with the keyboard
  18. Which pad is at a point?
  19. Play with the mouse
  20. Progress and mistakes
  21. A function for a new game
  22. Click to retry
  23. Light up when pressed
  24. Faster and faster
  25. Save the best score
  26. Show the best score
  27. Build it yourself: no dawdling