Planning

Before starting work on my game, I searched for similar games online to draw inspiration for the design. Then, I used pencil and paper to sketch out the desired layout and the different elements that would be included in the HTML and what each would do.

Building

Prior to starting the game's construction, I wrote the pseudocode, breaking down the game into smaller steps and considering how the user would interact with the page and what they would expect to see and when.

Debugging

While building my game I had several issues:

• Initially, I was unable to get the user-choice to update on the HTML. To solve this, I first checked that the query selectors were working and that the addEventListener for click was functioning. Using this process I found there was a typo when selecting the buttons.

-I accidentally declared an if statement outside of a function, causing it to execute when the page loaded.

-I tried to link images to the buttons instead of the words rock, paper, scissors to make the game more visually interesting but I found it hard to make it work with JS. In the end I found a way around it and used Emojis on the HTML.

• Finally, I found that everything was happening at once and it was not very good for user interaction. I added a delay to the generate the computer-choice and result a second after the user picked their choice.