Hangman

Created by: Noel Nagy

Date of creation: 11.11.2021 - 11.21.2021 (There may be bug fixes after this date!)

Used license: GNU AGPLv3

Background of the project

This is an improved version of my previously made console game.

I wrote the previous game when I started experimenting with python. It was about a year ago from the creation of this project! I'd like to see how much I improved since then. I uploaded the old version of the game for reference by the name of "app_old.py".

Technical data:

Used languages/file types:

• python 3.9.8
  • This is the base language used to program the game. There is also a script included that sorts the wordlist and gives a few statistics back from it.
• txt
  • The wordlist is a txt file which you can edit really easily. I am also planning a feature to the game, where you can add and remove words from the console and change the base list.
• ini
  • There is a settings.ini file included which will hold the most basic settings to the game. I'm planning on using the configparser module to edit and read the settings file.

Scoring system:

The scoring system is based on the selected difficulty. Listed below are the formulas and code implementations used to count them. The code implementation includes one line nested if/else functions for ease of use.

Here are the keyes used in the formulas:

• number of occurences: The number of times the guessed letter appers in the word. (Example: word: apple - letter: p - number of occurences: 2)
• streak: The users current streak in guessing the word. The streak is by default 0 and is reseted after guessing a letter that is not in the word. After every successfull attempt the streak will be incremented by 1.

Formulas:

Easy difficulty (0):
gaing points: number of occurences * streak
losing points: - 1

Medium difficulty (1):
gaing points: number of occurances * (streak + 1)
losing points: - 3

Hard difficulty (2):
gaing points: number of occurances * (streak + 2)
losing points: - 5

Code implementations:

gaining points:

gain_point_addition: int = 0 if difficulty == 0 else 1 if difficulty == 1 else 2

gained_points: int = number_of_occurrences * (streak + gain_point_addition)
score += gained_points

losing points:

lose_points: int = 1 if difficulty == 0 else 3 if difficulty == 1 else 5
score -= lose_points