I wrote a simple hangman game for my first period Windows Programming class. Below I’ll link to a mirror and list some basic tips for using it.
Features:
-800+ word list (default word list has British spelling, sorry Americans)
-you can open a different word list, or even add words manually yourself, the *.wlst files are really just text files (open them in notepad)
-you can synchronize your word lists. This means that if you enter a custom word in the game, it adds it to the wordlist file, as well as the games temporary word database.
-you can enter words with spaces in them, but it cleans up spaces before and after
-pretty pixelized pictures of perpetrators (the hanging men)
-cool scoresheet
-pretty interface
-lots of love!
-I made it!
Notes:
*Don’t click the “Use Custom Word” button twice with the same entry… that will enter the word to the list twice. Problem: doubles that word’s odds of being randomly selected
*You can modify the text file while you’re playing the game, but if you have the “synchronized lists” option enabled, the game will overwrite whatever changes you made. This can be good, or bad, depending on who’s editing your file.
*entering nothing does nothing
*since the guess button is the default, pushing enter will guess… click the use custom word button to use the word you enter
*you can choose what parts of the game to display, even the word that is to be guessed
*if you are running it across a network, like say, at work, off of your H driver or whatever you keep your networked files on, you don’t have full security rights, so the “synchronize lists” feature will break. Disable it in the options menu.
Here it is!
Installation Notes:
Steps:
1.) Download the zip file. Extract it wherever you want the game to be. IE: “…\games\hangman”
2.) You can now run the game two ways:
a.) Double-click the hangman.bat file.
b.) Go into your bin folder, and double-click the “hangman.exe” file.
3.) You can create a shortcut by right clicking the “hangman.exe” file and choosing “Create Shortcut.” You can rename the shortcut and put it on your desktop to run the game easily.
Compatibility Issues:
-it doesn’t run on my sister’s computer because she’s a freaking retard and screws up her computer all the time, so apparently, if you have some or other spyware you might have some or other dependency issues, or freaky runtime errors.
-It doesn’t work on Windows 98 due to a missing DLL file that comes with XP. Feel free to try and download it, but I’m not sure it’ll work.
Please, play and tell me what you think!
**LInux Users: I haven’t forgotten you! I just don’t know any Linux-compatible programming languages yet! I’ll be taking Java next year, and I promise I’ll make a remake.
