YLGYtileElimination

This is a tile elimination game, inspired by a once super popular Chinese video game that I've spent way too many hours playing.

An overview of each of the classes, and what their function is in the overall game.

CardSlot
Visually, the CardSlot class appears at the bottom of the screen. Once a tile is clicked, it will move to the CardSlot. The CardSlot class consists of an ArrayList of tiles. It will always put tiles with the same pattern next to each other. This class keeps track of the state of the game, as the player loses once there are 8 tiles collected. The class contains functions including add, eliminate, checkLose, draw numSlotsFilled, getSlots.

GameLayout
The GameLayout class holds all the content of the game and interacts with the user's actions (such as mouseclicks). It keeps track of the status of the game, which is updated whenever an action is performed by the user. It works closely with the RunYLGY class. The functions in this class include updateStatus, reset, saveProgress, paintComponent, drawBackground, getYlgy, and getPreferredSize.

Layer
A Layer consists of a 2D-array of tiles. Its constructor takes in parameters width, height, and if the layer is empty. The Layer class contains functions like addTile, draw, getTileLayer, and isEmpty.

RunYLGY
This class is the runnable and graphic part of the game. It pulls together all the JPanels, JButtons, and the frame.

Tile
There are 6 types of tiles, each represented by an int from 0 to 8. The visual of each instance of tile is represented by imported image. The Tile class has functions including getPattern and draw.

YangLeGeYang
This is the class that brings together Layer and CardSlot. Multiple layers will be on top of each other, so an array is used for layers. This class is also in charge of file I/O, as it can save data from the piles and the card slots as well as read from the files with the data. This class records the status of the game (meaning if the player has won or lose). The YangLeGeYang class contains functions including reset, savePiles, saveCardSlots, buildFromSaved, moveTiles, getTilePile, getCardSlot, isGameOver, and hasWon.