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Hangman in C++

My goto project when I'm learning a new language. Actually, I learnt C++ over 30 years ago, but C++ and I have moved on a lot in that time.

So, here in 2025, I'm learning C++20 (it would be C++23, but I'm on a Mac with XCode not even supporting all of C++20).

I'm embracing the old and the new:

  • Tmux - I've tried to get into this a few times, but I now have a real handle on it.
  • NeoVim - I learnt vi more than 40 years ago, but NeoVim has re-ignited my interest.
  • Lazygit - What a great Git front-end.

Word list

This has now been updated to use a word list constructed from Kevin Atkinson's wordlist page. I have included the whole copyright file that comes with the download, since all the component word lists have ultimately been placed in the public domain, but there are a number of different statements of copyright contained. Clearly, I am deeply in Kevin's debt for the word list and acknowledge the sterling work that he has done.

The wordlist that I have chosen to construct from his files is:

  • Level 60, with...
  • English and British up to variant 1.
  • No abbreviations, proper names, Roman numerals, and hacker words.
  • Word lengths 5 to 16.

Build

It is built using cmake

Clone the repository

cd into the cloned directory and make a build directory.

cd into the build directory, and run

cmake ..
cmake --build .

then you can run text_hangman and raylib_hangman. There are also a couple of test programs, the text gallows tester called testg and the config tester called testconfig.

et voila.

Caveat

Although I've only built and run this on my Mac, both versions should build and run on Windows and Linux, I think.

Latest State

  • The hanged entity in the text version is now a robot.

  • The text version has colours now, including the robot.

  • New word list.

  • Graphical version using Raylib.

  • Imported the images for the gallows and the hanging zombie

  • Letter grid to allow for entering guesses

  • Wrong guesses are shown

  • Opening and completion screens

  • Initialisation of the Raylib version no longer needs to be done in two phases because an RAII Window class has been introduced.

  • Centring now takes note of the window width in the Raylib game.

  • The text game has been refactored, with a text game class akin to the raylib one.