#28 Flooder

Flooder is a colorful game where a player tries to fill the board with a single color by changing the color of the tile in the upper-left corner. This new color spreads to all neighboring tiles that matched the original color. It’s similar to the Flood It mobile game. This program also has a colorblind mode, which uses shapes instead of flat colored tiles. It relies on the recursive flood fill algorithm to paint the board and works similarly to the “paint bucket” or “fill” tool in many painting applications.

The Program in Action

Figure 28-1 shows what the output will look like when you run flooder.py.

Figure 28-1: The output ...

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