Well well. the pacmasta is back.. this year its a game called Pegs. Pegs is a revamped, highly customizeable version, of the classic peg solitaire. It is fun, but challenging, game with all the features you would expect.
Peg Solitaire has been around for over a century, as far as mid 1800's and it has always been fairly popular with mathematitions trying to calculate the shortest posible move sequence. Also it is a fun challenge to beat the solitaire level in the shortest time.
The object of this game is to jump over another peg (like Capture in checkers), and the jumped peg will be removed, the goal is to have only 1 peg remaining, and preferably in the center (but it doesnt need to be).
This version contains 10 levels, Cross, Plus, Fireplace, Up-Arrow, Pyramid, Diamond, Solitaire, Wall, Square, and Custom. (Increasing In Difficulty)
Solitaire is considered the main game, but it is recomended that you finish the levels leading up to it to learn the peg removal tricks. Level 7 & 8 are special, to beat them you start with the solitaire level and you have to remove pegs until you match the required layout. Level 9 (custom) is currently the diamond 9x9 solitaire game, but this game is very dynamic and you can create your own levels (up to 10x10), and your own board styles. (see in game intructions)
Special Features: Completely GUI driven, GUI Menubar, Fully colour customizable, Custom cursor, Images are all custom made (pixel by pixel) from within java, Dynamically scaleable from 4x4 to 10x10 layout, Ability to create your own levels. Highscores save, GUI level Creator!
Programming Language: Java
Format: Precompiled .JAR archive.
Requirements: Pent 2 or higher CPU, Any OS w/ JRE.
JRE (Java Runtime Edition): http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
(Most people already have the JRE installed for playing java games online)
Grade: 12
Mark: Handed this in for my Comp Sci ISU and i got 100%
Time: About a month and a half, most of which was 30minutes a day in class
Experience: Second year java, first year java gui, self taught most.
Used: JCreator & J2SDK 1.4.2_09
Totals: 5 Main classes +1 Turing, 2390 Lines of code, 4 Subclasses, 33 Methods , 128 Variables
Attached: 2 code snippets, one from Pegs one from PegsMenu, Methods and variable documentation, Pegs[sf].zip (The Game Archived)
Full source: Available by request (only ppl high on compsci hiarchy)
Screenshots: SS 1 SS 2 SS 3 SS 4
If you find any bugs, please post here or email kevinfolz@gmail.com
Please include description of what went wrong, and last 10 debugging lines.
I have done extensive playing of the game and i strive to make all my programs bug free, but alas i have found the following 2 unfixable glitches:
-If running win98, DON'T use scrollmouse for level selector in Highscores window, it causes the Java Virtual Machine to crash (not my program)
-If clicking very fast, it sometimes misses a click, simply reclick to fix, or if the click was a selected peg and it lost its green colour so you dont know where it is, press backspace and it will clear that selection. I believe its just the GUI action listener slipping.
Enjoy, and feel free to post comments and suggestions.
-Kevin
Edit1: fixed a small cosmetic glitch in colour window, now the 16 colour boxes dont have spaces betweem them (was caused by cursor button was too long)..
Edit2: I was bored so .. 110 lines of code, 3 variables and 1 method later.. Tada! we have GUI Level Creator! Accessable through file menu
Edit3:For anyone that manages to set a new (1-3) rank record for any level,send a screenshot (kevinfolz@gmail.com) of the highscore window (for that particular level), and I will make an effort to add it on the next release
