Program Simon Says with Processing

Step by step tutorial that explains how to program Simon Says in Processing. We will create a button class, a tone generator and the logic behind the game.

This tutorial is suited for beginning/intermediate programmers. We assume you have basic programming knowledge in Processing.

Check out the YouTube playlist with the 6 videos. The whole series will take you about 135 minutes to watch.

• Simon Says 0: Introduction Simon Says

  Introduction

• Simon Says 1: Clickable coloured buttons

  Creation of a Button object.

• Simon Says 2: Tone Generator

  Generate tones with the Processing Sound library and trigger the notes with the buttons.

• Simon Says 3: Simon Speaks

  Let Simon say a sentence of random words.

• Simon Says 4: User talks, Simon Checks

  Let the user talk and simon check if the user said the right thing, if not Simon generates a new sentence.

• Simon Says 5: The Final Game

  Wrap up everything to one game. We implement the dialog.

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Thanks to the excellent reverse engineering description from Simon Inns. His description of the reverse engineering of different Simon game is worthwhile the read.

Check out his site Waiting for Friday: Reverse engineering an MB Electronic Simon game

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Processing 3.0 was used for this tutorial. This release already includes the Sound library.