Connect Four

Goals

The purpose of this assignment is to learn to

1. Use booleans to create a 2-player game.
2. Use loops, 2D arrays, and conditional statements to drop pieces onto the grid and check if four of the same color have connected.

Programming

Tasks

• Initialize a 2D array the size of your game grid
• Determine which player will go first
• Create a function that uses keypress events to move the game piece around
• Create a function that handles player turns
• Create functions that check for the win condition
• Create a win condition
• Create a tie condition
• Correctly handle edge cases

More Details to Get You Started

Key Press Events - NonBlocking Games

• keyUp()
• keyDown()
• keyLeft()
• keyRight()

Variables, Colors, and Sprite Symbols

• NamedSymbol.symbolname;
• NamedColor.colorname;
• drawSymbol(column, row, NamedSymbol, NamedColor);
• setBGColor(column, row, NamedColor);

Important Functions

• The gameLoop() function loops until the win condition has been met (or there is a tie).
• quit() stops the game
• start() starts the game and calls the initalize function once before starting the gameLoop()

Help

Java

NonBlocking Games Documentation

NamedColor Documentation

NamedSymbol Documentation

C++

NonBlocking Games Documentation

NamedColor Documentation

NamedSymbol Documentation

Python

NonBlocking Games Documentation

NamedColor Documentation

NamedSymbol Documentation