Java 2d game experiment guideline

[mauro perei]

Hi there, im learning java2d, and was given a smal game to develope, but im strugling with a part of the game, above i leave a screenshot of the result.

http://i.imgur.com/CTPg6od.jpg

Basically in all these cards i have to find 3 cards that match, in my case gradient blue, and in 3 matches i have 4 opportunities, and always tha i choose the right card it appears a smily face, and if a choose the wrong card appears a sad face icon. So my strugle is, for the Cards ill create a Card.class, and inside of it i have fields like color, size for example, than ill create the shape with General Path than fill the color i want, now my problem is since the card haves 2 faces how would i apply these 2 faces in the class? How would you guys in a suggest me to develop this game? Im not looking for make my code, only a way to follow my track.

Ps. sorry for my english and happy in being a part of this forum.

best regarnds

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

Do you have the card game working at the command line? You cannot put a GUI on it until you have the game working.
Please post the image with the “Img” button, since many people are reluctant to click links on websites like this.

[Piet Souris]

hi mauro,

apart from the question whether your card game works or not, two
simple strategies are:

1) make sure you have two Paints for your cards, one for the 'face up'
and one for the 'face down'. If you have a draw-routine in your card class,
you could give it a parameter 'boolean faceUp'.

2) use one specific card that represents a card 'face down'. The game class
(or whatever class you have that controls the game) could then decide
to draw a card, or to draw the 'face down' card.

Greetz,
Piet

[Campbell Ritchie]

Maybe images representing faceUp and faceDown should be returned from the Card objects.