Chapter 7: Building a Simon Says Game

Handheld games have long been a pastime favorite. Whether you grew up with basic analog games or started with the glory of digital gaming to the now ever-so-powerful phone apps, you cannot argue how fun games are to the human mind.

In this chapter, you will be building and coding a classic handheld game of Simon Says. This chapter is different from the previous chapters as the focus is less on the actual build and more space is given to the code. The goal of this chapter is to increase your coding skills so that you can go and create a favorite game of your own.

Here is a diagram of what your Simon Says game will look like by the end of this chapter:

Figure 7.1 – Simon Says handheld game

In this chapter, you will build and program in the following sections:

• Building the handheld game
• Coding Simon Says