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

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".

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.

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.

• 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.

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

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