Tutorial: How to create a Minesweeper game – Easypromos - Online Helpdesk

Do you want to give your audience the opportunity of a moment of fun and entertainment? We present to you the Minesweeper game, where participants will need to locate all mines and open the rest of the squares before time turns out. Users will earn points for each square discovered without a mine, and will also get additional points based on the time remaining. In this way, participants will compete with each other to obtain the highest score in the Ranking and as administrator you will be able to reward the best classified.

These are the contents of the tutorial:

1. General description

Games have always captured the attention of users, who enjoy solving challenges such as word searches, word games, puzzles and memory games.

In particular, in this tutorial we explain all the steps to create a Minesweeper game. You'll be able to upload your own icons for the Minesweeper mines and flags.

The Minesweeper game has the following features:

You can upload your own icons for mines and minesweeper flags, and the system will create the game board automatically.
You can control the level of difficulty of the game, indicating the number of mines that will be on the board and adjust the size of the grid so that it has more or fewer squares.
You can limit the time available for players to complete the game (from 30 to 300 seconds).
Multiple options to reward participants: You can assign the prize/s to the participants with the highest score, run a random draw among the participants with the highest score, draw a prize among all the participants, etc.

2. How is the user participation flow

What will the user experience be like? The promotion is made up of different pages that the user will find when interacting with the promotion to participate, such as: the initial welcome page, the registration page, where the user will register with their data, the page that presents the game, etc. As a whole, the different pages will make up the structure of the promotion and the flow of participation that the user will follow to complete the promotional mechanics of the promotion.

In addition, as an administrator you can select which participation flow you want users to follow. Specifically, there are three different participation flows: Identified Mode, where the user must identify and register before being able to play; Visitor Mode, where the user first plays and then identifies and registers in order to claim their prize; and Anonymous Mode, where the user participates without identifying himself or registering. The choice of one modality or another will determine how the user's participation and experience in the promotion will be.

Learn in this article how each participation flow works, as well as the different pages that make up a promotion.

3. Create the promotion

How to start creating the Minesweeper? The following tutorial presents the first steps to create your promotion so that you don't miss any important point. You will learn all the general management options that you have available as an administrator in your dashboard to manage and edit the promotion.

Discover the first steps to create my first promotion.

4. Set up the Minesweeper game

Here are all the steps to create the Minesweeper game. To do this, go to Editor > Pages > Participation, and click on edit to start setting up the game. You can now begin customizing the game from the "Minesweeper" tab, where you'll find the following customization options.

Step 1. Configure the gameplay settings

In the "Gameplay" tab, you'll find all the options to customize and configure the game. Specifically, you can personalize the following aspects:

Grid size: Set the number of squares that the game board will present.
Time limit: You can establish a maximum time that you want to give the users to finish the game (30 to 300 seconds).
Number of mines: Set the number of mines you want to hide in the game.
Disable sounds: Allows you to turn off the default sounds enabled in the game
Background music: Allows you to upload an audio file in .MP3 format (maximum size of 2MB) that will loop as background music during the game.

The number of squares on the board together with the number of mines will determine the level of difficulty that the game will have, so you can adjust the difficulty by playing with the values of these two options.

Step 2. Customize the Game Design

In the "Design" tab, you will find all the options that allow you to customize the game board design. Specifically, you will find the following options:

A. Mined cell

First of all, you will be able to customize the design of the cells with mina through the following options:

Background color: This is the background color of the squares where the mines will bee hidden.
: You can upload your own icon to represent the mines on the board. We recommend uploading a 250x250 image in transparent PNG format.

B. Flagged cell

Next, you will be able to customize the design of the cells where the flags will appear through the following options:

Background color: This is the background color of the squares with the flags.
Icon: You can upload your own icon to represent the flags on the board. We recommend uploading a 250x250 image in transparent PNG format.

You can place a flag in the squares where you think there may be mines to help you discover the ones that are nearby.

C. Board

Finally, you will be able to customize the design of the game board through the following options:

Grid lines color.
Closed cell color.
Text color.
Background color.

Step 3. Instructions Screen

In the "Instructions" tab, you can customize the screen that will appear before starting to play. This screen can be customized with the following elements:

Image: This image will serve as the header image.
Description: This field can be used to provide instructions for participating in the game.
"Start" Button: You can customize the text on the button.

Additionally, you can disable the Instructions screen.

Step 4. Score screen

In the "Score Screen" section, you can customize the colors and texts that will be displayed on the screen the user will access after completing the game, which provides a summary of their performance along with their score. This screen is divided into:

Game OK: This is the screen that the user will access if they complete the game within the set time.
Game KO: Out of Time: This screen is shown when the user runs out of time and cannot complete the game.
Game KO: unsuccessful: It is the screen that appears when the user has not been able to complete the game because they triggered a mine.

For each of these screens, you can customize the following elements:

Header image.
Message: Text displayed at the top of the screen, which by default says "Good job!" for the "OK Screen" and "Time's up!" for the "KO by Time Screen."
Background color: The administrator can configure the background color of this screen to match the brand's corporate colors.

Additionally, you can configure the following options:

Hide score: Allows you to hide the summary of the score achieved by the user after playing.
Apply promotion's general colors: This option allows you to apply the same colors from the promotion to the game's score screen.

5. Customize the design and finish the settings

Once you have configured the Minesweeper game, the next step is to finish the configuration of the other options of the promotion, such as customizing the design template with your own colors and texts, introducing the legal bases, the viral content settings, etc. Check the tutorial to finish the configuration and customization of your promotion.

6. Manage scores and publication of winners

By default, the system will assign a score of 10 points for each square discovered without a mine.

Additionally, points will be assigned based on the participant's remaining time. In particular, 10 points will be assigned for each remaining second.

How to publish the winners

Easypromos provides a complete Prize and Winners Management system that will allow you to create the prize or prizes that you want to give to the users who participate in the game, as well as configure how you want to assign the prizes and select the winners.

Specifically, you have three ways to assign the prize to the winners, depending on your preference:

1. Assign the award to the player in the first position of the Ranking. In this case, follow the steps of this tutorial that explains how you can assign the prize to the fastest player.

2. Carry out a giveaway among the users who have obtained a higher score. Follow the steps of this tutorial that explains how you can create the prize to be raffled among the players with the highest score, for example, the 5 players with the most points.

3. Carry out a draw among all the users who have participated in the game. Follow the steps of this tutorial to create the prize and raffle it among all the participants.

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