This document is a project report for a puzzle game developed by a team of 3 students at the Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka. The team created a puzzle game using Java to provide entertainment and enhance problem solving skills. The project involved gathering requirements, designing game logic, implementing graphics, and testing the game. The final puzzle game allows players to move plots on a game board to solve puzzles and provides an educational experience in software development.

1. Software Project Lab-I
3rd
Semester Project Report

2. Team Members:
Md. Faridul Hasan Bafi ( 0403 )
Md.Sourav Hossain ( 0408 )
Md. Arafat Zaman ( 0410 )
Supervisor:
Nurul Ahad tawhid
Lecturer, IIT
PROJECT
REPORT

4. Subject: Software Project Lab – I
Sub. Code: SE 305
Institute: Institute of Information Technology,
University of Dhaka
PROJECT DESCRIPTION

5. The meaning of project is to give physical existence to the variation brain ideas and thoughts.
Project is a great source to develop technical skills in the Technical student.
During the programming of the project student goes through different problems and experience.
A student gets a change to climb on the roof of practical knowledge to economize to go at the
fields. A very important aim of this world “PROJECT” consist of seven alphabets each of them
has separate meaning.
 “P” for Planning – Planning is good an impressive half work is done.
 “R” for RELAIABLE SOURCE – Practice and theoretical material and able guidance
and assistance is achieved from different sources to promote the function of planned area.
 “O” for OVERALL EXPENSES – Overall expenses to provide final design to any
project is also considerable. Their expenses are analyzed for each concepts and method of
working on the computer.
 “J” for JOINT EFFORTS – Joint efforts is much necessary for programming and result
of any project.
Meaning of Project

6.  “E” for ECONOMIC TIME FEASIBILITY – It is important that the planned scheme is
how much economic time feasible. It is must to analyze estimate for completion of the
project.
 “C” for CONSTRUCTION – After analyzing the project work is done to give logical
existence of planned scheme.
 “T” for TESTING – Testing of program is done before submitting the project after
resting the gadget is ok for use.

7. To develop a project in any language means to combine all the features of the
language, in a well planned, systematic way so as to develop and application after
an analysis of requirement, so that it will be commercially helpful. In terms of its
ultimate objectives it gives an experience of realistic application.
The aim of this project is to create a puzzle game , by using programming in Java.
The project was aimed to achieve full fledge user friendliness. We have tried a lot
to achieve all the characteristics of good software. In later version it will be more
refined and integrated .
Abstract

8. Acknowledgement
By the Grace of ALMIGHTY ALLAH we are completed some phases of our project
to demonstrate.
We are grateful to the project supervisor Md.Nurul Ahad Tawhid Sir for his
supervision throughout the project time. He helped us a lot by sharing his
valuable knowledge with us.

9. CONTENTS
Table of Contents
1.Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................1
2.Objectives .............................................................................................................................................................................4
3.Why this project ...............................................................................................................................................................4
4.Description............................................................................................................................................................................4
5.History ...................................................................................................................................................................................4
6.Project Description .........................................................................................................................................................4
6.1 Game rules ......................................................................................................................................................................5
6.2 Required tools .............................................................................................................................................................5
7.Design Phase.........................................................................................................................................................................4
STEPS :
7.1 Requirement gathering ..........................................................................................................................................5
7.2 Logical Designing ......................................................................................................................................................6
8. Testing ..................................................................................................................................................................................4
8.1 Verification ....................................................................................................................................................................5
8.2 Maintenance ................................................................................................................................................................6
8.3 Quality Attributes ....................................................................................................................................................6

10. 9 User Manual..........................................................................................................................................................................4
9.1 Help ..................................................................................................................................................................................5
9.2About ..................................................................................................................................................................................6
10.Project Delivery...............................................................................................................................................................4
11.Limitation/Future Scope ............................................................................................................................................4
12.Conclusion ..........................................................................................................................................................................4
13.Reference ............................................................................................................................................................................4

11. 1. INTRODUCTION
TITLE OF PROJECT: “Puzzle Game”
PROJECT SUPERVISOR: Nurul Ahad Tawhid
PLATFORM USED: Windows 7
LANGUAGE USED: Java
MOTIVATION: Entertainment
CHALLENGES:
 Working with Java Graphics
 Developing Game Logic

12. 2.OBJECTIVE
Game Industry is a vast industry now-a-days. It is the economic sector involved
with the development, marketing and sales of games. It encompasses dozens of job
disciplines and employs thousands of people worldwide.
Games are developed by a single programmer, or by a small team of programmers
and artists, and hundreds of thousands of copies are sold. Many of these games
only take a few months to create, so developers can release several titles each year.
Thus, it is a profitable sector we can say.
We are developing a game in this semester to enter into the world’s game industry.
Our aim is to develop such a game that would not only gain the praise of our
teachers, but also give us a chance to get into the software industry.

13. 3. DESCRIPTION
A puzzle is a problem to make the user think. They are often used for
entertainment and can help logic skills. The user may need to recognize
patterns to solve it, so those who have good logic are usually good with
puzzles.
Puzzle games focus on logical and conceptual challenges, although
occasionally the games add time-pressure or other action-elements. Although
many action games and adventure games involve puzzles such as obtaining
inaccessible objects, a true puzzle game focuses on puzzle solving as the
primary gameplay activity.Games usually involve shapes, colors, or symbols,
and the player must directly or indirectly manipulate them into a specific
pattern

14. 4. WHY THIS PROJECT
It will provide pure entertainment for the people worldwide and they will know
more features about this interesting game. It offers new way of combining
challenge and pleasure in the world of gaming.
• Mental refreshment
• Educational
• Enhance creative and thinking abilities
• Learn to overcome challenges
• People Love to play this game
• The Game industry is developing and higher and higher day by day

15. 5. HISTORY
The first jigsaw puzzle was created around 1760, when John Spilsbury, a
British engraver and mapmaker, mounted a map on a sheet of wood that he
then sawed around each individual country. Spilsbury used the product to aid
in teaching geography. After catching on with the wider public, this remained
the primary use of jigsaw puzzles until about 1820

16. Credit for inventing the first jigsaw puzzle tends to go to John Spilsbury of
London, an engraver and map maker who lived in the 18th century. Apparently he
attached a map to a piece of wood in 1767 and cut out each country, thus creating
the first puzzle!
Then in 1880 Milton Bradley (1836 - 1911), already a successful toy and game
marketer, began to produce the first jigsaw puzzle for children. It was a puzzle of a
train which he called "The Smashed Up Locomotive."
As a pharmacist, jigsaw puzzles actually have more than just an entertainment
interest. Some studies have suggested that doing puzzles such as these may
actually help prevent or slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease or dementia.
So do a puzzle! It's good for you.

17. 6. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
6.1 GAME RULES :
• The player number can be one or more
• Each player has a Home Square from where he starts his Game.
• At the starting of the game, the pieces of each part are placed onto its
corresponding home square
• If a player don’t match it in a limited time period, he can get the help of
finding the next step or minmum path

18. 6.2 REQUIRED TOOLS :
 Java Swing: Java Swing was needed to create the window of the
game and the control buttons of the game. It is very much needed for
user friendliness as well as representation of the game. JOptionPane
was used to give message to the players, JButton was used to start
new game, set players, play the game and so on. JComboBox was
used to decide if the player is Human or Computer. JLabel, JTextField
and JTextArea were used to show texts to the player for the sake of
user friendliness.
 Java Graphics: : Java Graphics was used to create the board . It was needed to
move the plots from one square to another and to paint the position that is clicked
by the player.
 Mouse Listener: : Mouse Listener was needed to click on the plotss of the board.
Human Players need to decide which plot he wants to move. So he may click on
that specific plot. MouseListener’s method mouseClicked is used to get the
position where he clicked and then move the plot of that specific position.


19. 

20. 7. DESIGN PHASE
STEPS :
• Requirement Gathering
• Logical Designing
7.1 REQUIRMENT GATHERING/PLANNING:
After deciding the Project, next work was to plan about the Project. As our Project
is a Game Project, we had to play it many times before planning about it so that we
could understand the game better. After playing it again and again we started
planning how we could implement it. We needed to develop the logic first. As it is
a puzzle game, the board is the most important part of it. We needed to explore the
significance of every single square of the board .
7.2 DESIGNING:

21. Next step was to design the Project. For this we made a hand design of the
looks of the project first.
There comes a window with a button “Start Playing” when we run the
program. When the button is clicked a new window appears with the puzzle
board and other control buttons. The players need to be set first which can be
done by clicking “Player” button. Then we can start a new game. After
clicking the “New Game” button the numbers are generated automatically
with respect to the player number. Then each player are given turn. One can
only play in his turn.

22. Then the main board appears and there are two parts here
1. Numeric numbers :

23. 2. Picture :

24. 8. TESTING
8.1 Verification :
Test Case-1 : This test will check the Game with Human Player.
Test Procedure : Start Playing a Game with picture or numeric puzzle.
Expected Result : All the move was accurate, and Game Over when a
player wins.
Actual Result : Game continues if player wins.
Comment : If any problem occurs , he can find the minimum path.
Conditional Test : Again starts game.

25. 8.2 Maintenance
Project Maintenance means that, a project is already developed completely and it is in
production, Issues are posted from production and support team from client analyses the
issues and assigns the same to be fixed on offshore. So testing of such issues has to be
done after the fixing of the issue according to the expectation and requirement specs
provided by the client.
Our Project has gone through this phase. We have shown this project to our respective
relevant teacher and also played with him. He gave us some requirements which we
fulfilled. We also played it with our family members to get their feedback.

26. 8.3 Quality Attributes
 Flexibility
 Reusability
 Testability
 Usability
 Timeliness
 Correctness
 Availability
 Adaptability
 Maintainability
 Portability
 Reliability
 Cost Effective

27. 9.USER MANUAL
o Help
o About

28. 10. PROJECT SCHEDULING
Start Date End Date Project states and Objective Signature

29. 12. CONCLUSION
11.LIMITATION/FUTURE SCOPE
Our project is nearly a complete project. We implemented most of the rules of the Game .We
haven’t implemented the rule of playing with double player only. So our future plan is to include
this rule in our project so that it can be said as a Complete Puzzle Game. We will also try to
enhance the beauty of the project by using animation.
Projects are an easy way to incorporate literacy and creativity into learning and assessment.
While developing a project, students go through a Project Planning Phase, which helps them to
be ready to enter the Software Industry.

30. 13. REFERENCE
While doing this project we worked really hard. We had to maintain the clause to make a good
project. A team effort as well as support from our respective teachers was required and there is
no doubt that we got it. We learned a lot while working for this project. For example, this was
the first time we worked with graphics, thread and AI. This project helped us to clear our
knowledge about Java language which was not possible by reading books only
Deitel and Deitel, “Java 2: How to Program”, Wiley and Sons, 4th
Edition
Hebert Schildt, “Java: The Complete Reference”, McGraw-Hill, 5th
Edition
Internet Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_video_game