Midterm Project: Dallah & Fenyan

For our midterm project, we were tasked with creating a game using what we learned, including a shape, image, sound, text, and OOP. Sticking to my cultural theme that I’ve been using for my assignments, I decided to create an Emarati twist on the classic XO game, calling it Dallah & Fenyan.

I started off by getting the images for the players from google, as well as the background audio. I ended up resizing the images to a square in Paint.NET to make it easier to incorporate in my game. The audio I downloaded from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN1nUDx5znA

The game contains multiple components, such as:

• Board class to handle slots on the grid and check contents during gameplay.
• drawBoard(), displayStartScreen(), and displayGameOver() functions to manage the visible parts of the game.
• mousePressed(), checkWinner(), getWinner(), and restartGame() containing game logic to manage gameplay.

I’m proud of the getWinner() function because it took me the longest to write properly 🙁

function getWinner() {
  // Check rows, columns, and diagonals for a win
  for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
    // Rows
    if (board.cells[i][0] === board.cells[i][1] && board.cells[i][1] === board.cells[i][2] && board.cells[i][0] !== '') {
      return board.cells[i][0];
    }
    // Columns
    if (board.cells[0][i] === board.cells[1][i] && board.cells[1][i] === board.cells[2][i] && board.cells[0][i] !== '') {
      return board.cells[0][i];
    }
  }
  // Diagonals
  if (board.cells[0][0] === board.cells[1][1] && board.cells[1][1] === board.cells[2][2] && board.cells[0][0] !== '') {
    return board.cells[0][0];
  }
  if (board.cells[0][2] === board.cells[1][1] && board.cells[1][1] === board.cells[2][0] && board.cells[0][2] !== '') {
    return board.cells[0][2];
  }
  return null; // No winner yet
}

Overall, this is the final outcome:

Looking to the future, I could definitely make it look more appealing, have some better design and animations, as well as audio during gameplay. I could also add a score counter to see how many times each player won the game.