Updates to the Hangman application
I had no idea that this game would be so popular! Despite the crappy graphics, it’s been referred half a dozen times, and received almost 300 unique hits in the last 24-hours. Pretty amazing!
Here’s the link to Hangman. Give it a try. Here’s the original Hangman announcement.
There have been a few updates to the original program, including:
- Includes the definition of the word; calls a .NET web service that parses a web response from Dictionary.com (please let me know if you find problems!)
- Tracks statistics (e.g. total times played, won, and lost); so far we lose a LOT more
- Frees the man from the noose if you win
Yes, they’re all silly little updates, but hopefully it increases the enjoyment of the game.
Here are a couple screen shots with the updates. The first one shows what happens when you die, err, lose.
This next one shows what happens when you win. Doesn’t that look a lot more pleasant?
This sure is fun stuff to play with. Now that I feel more comfortable with Silverlight and WPF, there are all kinds of things I’d like to write. It’s a shame I’m not more artistic.
Anyone out there have some mad artistic skills that would like to team up with me?
Best of luck!
Wade Wegner works for Microsoft and is the Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure AppFabric.
That’s a great feature to add, I was seriously starting to think your app is making up words
No, they’re real words!
If you take a look at one of my previous posts, Devising a strategy to (consistently) win Hangman, you’ll see that I grabbed these words out of a dictionary file, parsed them into separate files based on character count, and extracted some statistics out of the data.
Sadly, I find that I only know 1 in 10 of the words it grabs (okay, maybe 1 in 20).