Deal
or No Deal
The 'Deal or No Deal' application was built as a bit of fun and based on the
idea of the popular daytime show.
Object of the game:
Purely by guessing, remove each box. Leaving
one with the largest amount of money and beating the 'Banker'.
To Play:
- Each 'Box' contains a virtual monetary amount.
- First pick the number of the 'box' you want to use as your own.
- Pick 5 boxes to reveal the amount contained in them. These will be removed from play.
- The banker will make an offer and ask a question - "Deal or No Deal?"
- If you "Deal", this is the virtual amount you've won. You continue playing to see what box/amount you would have been left with to see if it was more or less than the bankers offer. As you continue to play the banker will make an offer every three turns.
- If you "No Deal", you continue playing the game as above. Every three turns you will get an offer from the banker.
- Keep going until there are no boxes left and see who wins.
That's a basic overview of how it works.
The game has been packed into a .jar file.
It can be downloaded by clicking here.
The file size is 13Kb and is virus free.
Information
The code for this
application is a bit long so if you want a copy of the java files, email me and
I’ll send them to you. The basic structure of the class files is as
follows.
DOND Entry point for application
DondUI User Interface for application
DondPaneContent
MenuBar nPane lPane cPane rPane sPane
game
MenuBar:
Contains 2 drop down menus
- File: contains ‘Start New Game’ and
‘Exit’
- Help: contains ‘Instructions’ and
‘About’
DondPaneContent
nPane: (north pane)
Title Banner Graphic
lPane: (left pane)
11 Jbuttons (numbered 1 - 11) with actionListeners
rPane: (right pane)
11 Jbuttons (numbered 12 - 22) with actionListeners
sPane: (south pane)
Contains interactive UI for such like the bankers phone.
The box that the user initially selected at start of game.
cPane: (centre pane)
2 colums of 11 JLabels displaying different monetary
values
|
Monetary Values |
|
|
1p |
£1,000 |
|
10p |
£3,000 |
|
50p |
£5,000 |
|
£1 |
£10,000 |
|
£5 |
£15,000 |
|
£10 |
£20,000 |
|
£50 |
£35,000 |
|
£100 |
£50,000 |
|
£250 |
£75,000 |
|
£500 |
£100,000 |
|
£750 |
£250,000 |
game: (the
runtime control of the game)
This deals with any background calculations that need to
be performed by the application, i.e. setting up the money values for the boxes
when a new game is selected. What happens when a turn is taken and finally
working out the dealers offer.
Incidentally the method that
works out the dealers offer has been quite problematic.
On creation of new, an array
of strings with the monetary values need to be randomly allocated to the JButtons
1-22.
Then the User needs to
select a starting number to use as their own.
Also need a class that runs
the control of button selection for the left and right panel.
i.e. so once selected removes a label from the cPane
display.