Mahjong Game – The Graphics

The next game we’re going to build is a Mahjong solitaire game. Mahjong is a tile matching game which I feel is a natural step forward from the Memory game we created in the previous post, so if you haven’t read that post yet, you might want to give it a look.

Since this is a more complicated game, I decided it would be best to tackle it in several posts instead of just one. In this first post we’ll create the graphics needed for the game. Let’s start by considering what this game needs to include. If you search the web for even a few minutes you will find that there are several versions of this game, each with its own set of rules. To make things easier, our own basic version of the game will use simplified versions of some rules, and ignore others (like score) entirely.

So what does that leave us with? Continue reading →