C212 Final Notes.txt

We will be using the original code posted on the website.

1. Add a running score to your game. Marked[A1, A2, etc]
We want to add a score to our game. I am taking this to mean that we want to 
keep tack of every time the player manages to clear a row. So we are going to
develop a functionality that add one to the games score everytime the user
clears a row.
Start in SetOfBlocks,we create a int variable score. [A1]
We then head to the eliminateFullRows method which is what clears rows when our
user lines up the tetrominos corectly.
Within the eliminateFullRows we add a function that adds 1 to score
every time the method clears the rows[A2]
this should allow for the score to be kept throughout the game.
lastly we print score everytime it is updated[A3]

BONUS: we also print the score when the game ends[A4]


2.Design and add a new piece to your game Marked[B1, B2, etc]
We are going to work within Tetromino.java, we must creat a new method
MakeBiggerBlocks so that we can create Tetrominos that have 5 blocks [B1]

After doing this we can design our new Tetromino, i created a n. I add this
with the rest of the tetrominos [B2].

With our tetromino created now we must add it to the game, we do this by modifying
the pickRandom method. I changed the Math.random function so that it can included another value
making it possible for the game to selected it [B3]

Then we must add this new possibility to the if statement with the rest of the tetrominos[B4]

lastly we head over to Tetris.java and change our new Tetromino to be the first one
to show up so that we can test that it works with in the game correctly and actully shows up [B5]



3.Add a pause and resume key to your game. Marked[C1, C2, etc.]
first we must create a boolean variable called pause within our tetris class, 
we default it as false[C1]

next we go to our update method and modify it so that if 
pause == true the game will not update[C2]

next we must also modify our keyevent in a similar manner, if pause == true, 
none of our keyevents will react.[C3]

lastly we must create a toggle for our pause variable, we add it within our keyevent
we use the char p to be the toggle, it switches the state of our pause variable
depending upon its current state.[C4]

this completes the functionality but we could do something extra to make it more
obvious to the user when the game is paused. To fix this we add an extra if statement
to our draw method that will print the String "Pause" when pause == true [C5]

BONUS: Marked [D1, D2, etc]
I also added a game over functionality. It prints game over and stops the game when the overflow() method from 
blocks is true.

first we modify the hasEnded method, we add an if statement so that hasEnded will
return true if the overflow method is true, other wise it returns false like always
this will acutlly end the game[D1]

this might be confusing to the user so we also will add something that will allow
the user to know the game has ended. for this we turn to the draw method.
we add an if statment that will print the String game over 
if overflow == true [D2]