Game of Memory

Let’s put together what we have learned about the FireMonkey architecture so far and build a complete but simple game. In the process, we will look at how to handle images with the TImageList component and some basics of building FireMonkey 2D user interfaces.

Designing the game

Game of Memory is a board game. A player is presented with a grid of tiles. Every tile has an image on it, but all images are initially hidden. When a user touches a tile, its image is revealed. When the next tile is touched, the image of the currently visible tile is made hidden again, and the image of the new tile is shown. This means that at any one moment during the game, only one image is shown. The number of tiles has to be even because every image is used twice. The objective of the game is to remove all the tiles in the shortest possible time by touching tiles with the same image one after another. If a user touches another tile with the same image as the currently visible...