This project is a simple and quick hangman game created with a complex range of words. The game has been built with python and deployed with Heroku. The idea is to guess the hidden word in a certain amount of tries before the man is fully hanged.

Link to my code via Github pages

Link to my Application deployed by Heroku

To begin you must guess a random letter a-z in hopes that it is included in the chosen letter, otherwise it will begin to take a life off've you. This continues throughout until A. the player runs out of lives or B. the player guesses the full word in its entirety.

• Random word function

  • A random word is picked out've the words.txt file

• A check to see if the letter is within the hidden letter

  • If it isn't it will prompt the user to guess again.

• Limited lives function

  • The user only has a limited amount of guesses before the game is over.

• A leaderboard of which calculates the highest scoring users based off've the complexity of the word given as well as the amount of lives they lost.

• A selection of difficulty to allow the user to change between levels of 1-5 (perhaps higher) to increase the challenge and allow for more progression

• A connected spreadsheet to use instead of a words.txt file where the program can access the spreadsheet for said leaderboard or for an easier option to add extra words.

• A login system to allow to user to login to see their progress and current overall place on the leaderboards.

• The Code Institute add-ons tested sufficiently within the program so I adjusted those errors accordingly.

• Tested from both Gitpod terminal and Heroku site.

• I can see that any input can be placed into the input prompts in multiple areas. In the future I will need to add validation techniques to raise value errors ect to disable the possibilty of flase inputs and enabling a restart of the game once over.

• Built into Code Institute template. Add-ons allow for error checking.
• Pep8 website down for testing.

• Instructions for deployment
  • Fork or clone Repository which is stored on Github.
  • Create Heroku account or login
  • Create new app - enter name of app and assign region.
  • If your using a creds.json file then go to Heroku settings and click "reveal config vars".
    • In key type CREDS and in value paste your whole creds.json file text.
    • Again if you don't need to use creds.json file then skip to next step.
  • Add Buildpack then click python, then click add Buildpack again and add node.js.
    • Make sure Python is first then node.js second.
  • Go to Deploy section in Heroku.
  • Click Github for deployment. Then click connect to Github. Login to Github to connect Heroku to Github.
    • Then type in your repo name and hit search.
    • Click connect to connect your project repo to Heroku.
  • Scroll down to Enable Automatic deployments. This updates your Heroku everytime your Github repo is updated.
    • e.g after you push any changes in github.

• https://www.hangmanwords.com/words
  • For the list of words used in the program.