HANGMAN

Rules to Game

Note

In order to be able to play game please do understand the rules and install all dependencies needed (Bundler)

• You will be playing against the computor (host => chooses a secret word)
• The host (which is the computor) will pick a secret word
• You will have 7 tries for each word to try and guess each letter of word
• Within those 7 tries, the computor will draw a full hangman figure from 7 shapes
• If you guess the word or the letters correctly before the computor is done drawing, YOU WIN

DEVELOPMENT DETAILS

• My first program (game) that saves the progress of the games you play using files manipulation
• It will save each new game in a new file

FEATURES IN GAME

Player features

1. Each game can be saved in a diferent file
2. You can delete each game or continue from it

Computer features

1. Draw 7 shapes

• line (5)
• circle (1)
• rectangle (1)

CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS

• How to save progress of one game using a file
• How to delete a saved game
• How to save game by command
• How to draw in a terminal
• Gem for making text bold in terminal

Solutions

• For making text bold in terminal use the colorize gem with the #bold method
• For showing shapes in terminal use the artii gem or ruby2d gem
• To save progress in each game we use JSON string formatiing for stored information in hash
• To make text bold in terminal we use the bold method from the gem colorize
• To draw in terminal we use the ruby2d gem which shows the graphics externally