Hangman Game

A simple game of Hangman. This game uses wordsAPI and dictionaryAPI(Merriam-Webster).

Features

This game features the classic Hangman game style that you can play with friends along with a few extra bonuses, including:

• checking input to ensure the user/API has only given one word (no spaces or special characters)

• Two different art styles which will:

  • change the background texture and color
  • change the font used on the webpage
  • change the man being hanged, appropriately to which stage he's in.

• Solo Mode, which includes:

  • using wordsAPI which finds a random word
  • using dictionaryAPI to:
    • make sure it's a word
    • finding the definition to the word, to be used as a hint

Current Bugs and possible future solutions

• pressing toggle player quickly causes extra blanks to be produced
  • set timeout for button to prevent clicks
• webster's API sometimes produces a word without a (shortdef)description
  • prevent those words from being used
  • fetch full definition

Features that could be added later

• allow user/API to input phrases, multiple words, words that include hyphens or apostrophes
  • make sure special characters/spaces are displayed rather than being guessed
  • make sure special characters/spaces don't count toward word checking and word printing
• keep score of player performance
  • include timer
  • subtract points for wrong letter or using hint
• animate hangman pictures changing
  • have pictures sweep/flip in
  • have short video of someone actually drawing the figure
• animate win/lose messages
• have modal message instead of alerts for letters already guessed
• add magic mode so players can guess Magic: the Gathering card names
• have an executioner ask "any last words?" and hangman says the word being guessed.
• allow player to pick a category for single player random word generator