Introduction
Remember those classic memory match games? Flip two cards, find a pair, and clear the board! In this post, we'll dive into a modern take on this beloved game, built from scratch using Python and the versatile PyGame library. We'll explore its cool features, walk through some key code components, and then take a detour into the exciting world of AI-assisted development by looking at what Amazon Q CLI is and how you might set it up, imagining how it could supercharge such a project

Supercharging Development: What is Amazon Q CLI?
Now, imagine you're building this game, or any software project. Sometimes you hit a snag, need to understand a new library, or want to generate some boilerplate code. This is where AI-powered assistants like Amazon Q come in Amazon Q is a generative AI-powered assistant from AWS designed to help with a wide range of business and development tasks. It can understand your questions, provide information, generate content, and even take actions based on your existing enterprise data and systems.
The Amazon Q CLI (Command Line Interface) would be a way to interact with Amazon Q's capabilities directly from your terminal. While a universally named "Amazon Q CLI" for all Q features might evolve, developers often interact with Q capabilities through existing AWS CLIs or specific service CLIs (like those related to Amazon CodeWhisperer, which is now part of Amazon Q).

Configuring an AWS CLI for Q Capabilities
If you're a Windows user who loves the Linux environment, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with a distribution like Ubuntu is a popular setup. Here’s a general guide on how you might configure an AWS command-line tool (which could provide Amazon Q features) within WSL.
Install WSL (if not already installed)
Step-1:Open PowerShell (as Administrator) and run: wsl --install
Step-2:sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Step-3 Install Amazon Q CLI in WSL Ubuntu
curl -O https://q-cli.amazon.com/download/latest/q-linux-x64.zip
sudo apt install unzip
unzip q-linux-x64.zip
sudo mv q /usr/local/bin

Step-4 Authenticate Q CLI (first time only)
q login
This will open a browser (on your Windows side) to authenticate your AWS account. Just sign in and authorize.

Prompt

Memory Match Game: More Than Just Flipping Cards!
This isn't just a basic memory game. We've packed in several features to make it engaging and visually appealing:

Multiple Difficulty Levels: Catering to different skill levels, you can choose from "Easy" (2x3 grid), "Medium" (3x4 grid), or "Hard" (4x5 grid).
Diverse Card Themes: Why stick to one look? This game allows you to play with:
Numbers: Classic and clean.
Fruits: Colorful and fun, with dynamically drawn fruit icons!
Flags: Test your vexillology knowledge with simplified country flags!
Modern User Interface: Say goodbye to basic rectangles! The game boasts:
Rounded corners for cards, buttons, and panels.
Shadow effects for a sense of depth.
Interactive buttons with hover effects.
Clear visual distinction for card backs, fronts, and matched pairs.
Smooth Gameplay:
A brief delay before mismatched cards flip back, giving you time to memorize.
Clear tracking of moves and matches.
An intuitive menu system for selecting difficulty and theme.
A satisfying "You Win!" screen upon completion.

The Card Class
The heart of our game. Each card is an object with properties like its position (rect), value (for matching), flipped state, matched state, and an optional image for themes.

class Card:
rect: pygame.Rect
value: int
flipped: bool = False
matched: bool = False
image: pygame.Surface = None

def draw(self, surface, font, theme):
    if self.flipped or self.matched:
        # Draw card front (white rounded rectangle with shadow)
        shadow_rect = pygame.Rect(self.rect.x + 3, self.rect.y + 3, self.rect.width, self.rect.height)
        draw_rounded_rect(surface, (0, 0, 0, 50), shadow_rect, 10) # Shadow
        draw_rounded_rect(surface, CARD_FRONT, self.rect, 10)    # Front

        if theme == "Numbers":
            text = font.render(str(self.value), True, TEXT_COLOR)
            text_rect = text.get_rect(center=self.rect.center)
            surface.blit(text, text_rect)
        elif self.image:
            img_rect = self.image.get_rect(center=self.rect.center)
            surface.blit(self.image, img_rect)

        if self.matched: # Green overlay for matched cards
            s = pygame.Surface((self.rect.width, self.rect.height), pygame.SRCALPHA)
            s.fill(MATCHED_COLOR)
            surface.blit(s, self.rect)
    else:
        # Draw card back (blue rounded rectangle with shadow)
        shadow_rect = pygame.Rect(self.rect.x + 3, self.rect.y + 3, self.rect.width, self.rect.height)
        draw_rounded_rect(surface, (0, 0, 0, 50), shadow_rect, 10) # Shadow
        draw_rounded_rect(surface, CARD_BACK, self.rect, 10)    # Back
        # ... (pattern on the back) ...

The Button Class
For our interactive menu and in-game "Back" button, we have a Button class. It supports text, icons, hover effects, and rounded corners for that modern feel.

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class Button**:
def init(self, x, y, width, height, text, font, icon=None):
# ... (initialization) ...

def draw(self, surface):
    # ... (draws shadow, button body with hover color, icon, and text) ...

draw_rounded_rect Utility
A neat helper function to draw rectangles with rounded corners, used extensively for the UI.

def draw_rounded_rect(surface, color, rect, radius=0):
# ... (implementation using pygame.draw.rect with border_radius) ...
Dynamic Theme Generation
Instead of static image files for all themes (though that's also an option!), the "Fruits" and "Flags" themes dynamically generate their visuals as PyGame Surface objects. This is a cool way to keep the asset dependencies low.

create_fruit_images(): Draws simple representations of fruits with their names.
create_flag_images(): Draws simplified versions of country flags. This demonstrates a bit more complex drawing logic for varied patterns.
Game Logic in main()
The main() function is the conductor of our orchestra. It handles:

Game States: Switching between "menu", "playing", and "game_over".
Event Loop: Processing player input (mouse clicks for cards and buttons, quitting the game).
Card Mechanics:
Flipping cards when clicked.
Tracking the current_flips (up to two cards).
Comparing card values for a match.
Updating matched status.
Implementing the FLIP_DELAY_MS for mismatched pairs to flip back.
UI Drawing: Rendering all visual elements based on the current game state, including stats like moves and matches.