Hangman is a classic game where the player attempts to determine the hidden word. Players are presented with blank spaces and have to individually guess letters until the blank spaces are exchanged for letters. Each wrong letter guess, results in the construction of a man hanging until the final image is drawn and the game is over. In this version, a word is randomly generated by the computer and the user has 7 chances to enter a unique letter and guess the word. Each time the user inputs an incorrect answer, a visual hangman graphic is displayed to the user to indicate the incorrect letter. Once the game is won, the user has the choice to play again or return to the main menu.

The link to the site can be found here

The aim of this site is to provide a fun, interactive, easy and accessible game that delivers a challenge to the user. Users should be able to receive real time feedback as to whether their guess is correct or incorrect. Users should know whether they've won or lost the game. Users should have the ability to easily replay the game once completed.

During the planning stage, I initially thought about the logic that the game must follow in order to run. I considered the step by step process from a user’s point of view and how their interaction with the game could affect the steps and logic within the game. I considered:

• How the game would initially load
• What would be the first interaction/input from the user
• How would the user input affect the logical steps of the game

Once I considered these processes, I created a flowchart to supplement the process of building.

The home page of the site features a hangman logo.

The user is greated by a welcome message.

Within the welcome message, there is a concise description of the rules of the game. The user is then invited to input their first name. The user can only enter alphabetic characters or the game will not recognise the users input.

Once the user input their name, the game recognises the user and a short message is displayed to the user. The game then automatically starts.

Once the game has loaded, a hangman image appears.

Once the game begins, a random word is generated from a list of words using the python random module. The length of the words are then represented by underlines to show how many letters are in the word.

Displayed to the user, is the amount of lives the user has (which decreases every incorrect letter used) the letters the user has already used and the input for the user to guess a letter.

The user cannot guess the same letter more than once. A message is displayed to user if they try and use the same letter more than once and their guess is discounted.

The user can only guess one letter at a time and cannot use any numbers or special characters. A message will displayed to the user if they try.

If the user wins the game, a winners message is displayed to the user with the correct word in full.

If the user loses the game, the completed hangman image is displayed with the correct word in full

Whether the user wins or loses the game, they are presented with the option to play again or not. If they chose not to they will return to the home page.

Players can only enter Y or N otherwise an error message will be displayed and they'll be asked to enter a vaild input.

A clear feature was implemented in order to keep the page clear and orderly for the user.

Features that could be implemented for the future:

• Game modes of easy medium and hard - the vocabulary difficulty of the word depends on the game mode
• An 'Extreme' mode where there is a timer and users have a time limit to guess each question

The hangman python code was tested using the PEP8 validator

each .py file was tested

All .py files passed thought validation without any bugs.

When initially creating the logic to restrict the user from inputting the same letter twice, the while loop created a bug which infinitely printed a message.

This bug was solved by rethinking the logic of the while loop.

A bug which occurred with the user inputting their name was that the user could enter a number or special character as their user name. This was solved by creating a while loop that only allows users to enter letters.

When put initially put through the PEP8 validator a no new newline at end of file error was displayed

This was fixed by adding a newline at the end of the run.py file.

This project was deplyed using code institute's mock terminal for heroku

The steps for deploying the project were as follows:

1. Committed and pushed the project to github
2. Created a new app in Heroku
3. Created a unique name for the app
4. Selected "BuildPack" in settings and selected Python and Node.js in that order, ensuring Python was on top
5. In the 'Config Var' settings The key PORT and the value 8000 were added.
6. Within the deployment settings, automatic deploy was selected ensuring the Heroku app was updated after each push.
7. Deploy Branch was then clicked
8. Once the app was successfully deployed message was shown the view button was clicked to redirect to the deployed app.

• Python was used to create the app.
• Github / Gitpod & Heroku were used for creation and deployment of the site.
• PEP8 was used to validate the code.
• Lucid Chart was used to create the flow chart

• This Video was used as a starting point for the hangman game. The words from the words file and hangman graphic were also used.
• ASCII Art Generator was used to create the Hangman title.
• https://stackoverflow.com/ was used to help find solutions to problems