Memory Games for Mental Health

Game Setup

This project is aimed to improve mental health during covid-19 by helping you build memory skills. During these hard times, people have more stress, anxiety, and depression because of economic recession, covid-19, and long quarantine times. These games are aimed to distract you from today's issues while helping you improve your memory skills and learning something new. The games were made in python.

Color memorization and number memorization are made to work with buttons and LEDs connected to a raspberry pi, but can work with any device that uses GPIOS and python. If you haven't worked with pi or GPIOS before, it can be really fun experience. What started out as hobby quickly for me turned into a project. I thought people could benefit from not only learning how work with GPIO pins and python, but pickup a new hobby to help with mental health during quarantine. It was definitely challenging organizing so many cables in the board, and then creating the logic to interact with buttons and LEDS. The more difficulties I added, the bigger the script got quickly. Overall, it was a really fun project, and I learned a lot about hardware and how to write code that interacts with hardware in python. The github has more information about the different difficulties. Users can use the same GPIO numbers or change them as needed in the script. Whats next? Adding difficulties to the color memorization, the harder the difficulty, the faster the lights flash. I would also want to make more games to help build brain and reaction skills using sounds and words.

Included is also a project from itsourcecode.com that can run on python without a pi. It is a word scrabble game that helps you learn python while learning to make a game. You pick a theme of words, and you will get a random word from the list to unscramble. Source: https://itsourcecode.com/free-projects/python-projects/how-to-make-game-in-python/