Simon Says Help!

Adafruit Circuit Playground Express
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I am trying to figure a way out to make a Simon Says game on the CPX using blocks. I want to divide pixels into 4 sections, one for each of the colors (0-2 = red, 2-4 = blue, 5-7 = yellow, 7-9 = green), but I cannot figure a way to do that.

What I have is a way to add to the pattern and how to show the pattern (maybe).

Adafruit has an example of a code https://learn.adafruit.com/simon-game-clone-with-circuitplayground-express-and-circuitpython/light-design but I figure out how to translate to blocks.

Here is what I have so far:

Thank you in advance for any help!

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Ooh! Youā€™re giving me an excuse to dig out my Circuit Playground Express! Nice! Now, where did I put that thingā€¦

Stay tuned! :smile:

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So, I used a simpler way to activate the LEDs using show ring. Feel free to alter the colors to your liking; I used the colors and locations used in the Adafruit article that you mentioned. Yes, you could do the same thing with a bit of math, but this just feels like it fits better with the Blocks environment.

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Now, we can handle the touch sensors. I added a variable, acceptInput, which is checked before the touch is processed. Right now, acceptInput is simply set to true. You donā€™t always want to be accepting input during the game, though, so weā€™ll need a way to ignore player input later.

Hereā€™s how I did it:

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Because weā€™ve assigned each color a number, when youā€™re building Simonā€™s sequence and accepting player input, you just need to use the numbers 1 through 4 instead of trying to create an array of colors or light patterns.

Iā€™ll stop here for now so that you can give it a go. Good luck!

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So I was stuck on trying to have the player input the entire sequence before comparing it with the game sequence. Is there a way to the compare the values of two arrays using blocks? Eventually realized you have to check after every button press.

Here it is:

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YES! Good work!

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Maybe a bit late, but hereā€™s a variant with a couple of changes:

  • Moved the initialization into a ā€˜resetā€™ function to allow the game to restart after losing
  • Added a better random number generator (since the built-in one always results in the same sequence, at least on my CPX)
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Did you ever get this to work?

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@rymc88 's version works well (I just tested it again in case I had forgotten), and it looks like @smagoun added a couple of useful enhancements. I also have a version for MakeCode Arcade in a separate thread.

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