Constructor Word Guess

This is Word Guess command-line game using constructor functions.

Demo

Overview

This game makes use of three main files:

• Letter.js: Contains a constructor, Letter. This constructor will display an underlying character or a blank placeholder (such as an underscore), depending on whether or not the user has guessed the letter.

  In order to accomplish this my constructor defines:

  • A string value to store the underlying character for the letter
  • A boolean value that stores whether that letter has been guessed yet
  • A function that returns the underlying character if the letter has been guessed, or a placeholder (underscore) if the letter has not been guessed.
    • This function also returns a a space if the the solution is made up of two words as is the case with Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador
  • A function that takes a character as an argument and checks it against the underlying character, updating the stored boolean value to true if it was guessed correctly

• Word.js: Contains a constructor, Word that depends on the Letter constructor. This is used to create an object representing the current word the user is attempting to guess.

In order to accomplish this my constructor defines:

• A function that creates an array of new Letter objects representing the letters of the underlying word

• A function that returns a string representing the word. This should call the function on each letter object (the first function defined in Letter.js) that displays the character or an underscore and concatenate those together.

• A function that takes a character as an argument and calls the guess function on each letter object (the second function defined in Letter.js)

• index.js: The file containing the logic for the the actual game, which depends on Word.js and:

  • Randomly selects a word and uses the Word constructor to store it
  • Prompts the user for each guess and keeps track of the user's remaining guesses and letters that have been guessed
  • Also validates user input to only allow a-z letters that have not been guessed.

Technologies Utilized

• NodeJS
• JavaScript

NPM Packages

• Inquirer
• CLI-Table3
• Chalk
• Clear

Deployment

1. Clone repo
2. Open your terminal and navigate to the folder that contains the file index.js
3. Run npm install to install the required dependencies
4. Run node index.js and you should be able to play the game following the inquirer prompts

Notes

This game was a lot of fun to make and there are a few ideas I have for building on to it:

• Even though the theme was Latin American countries I had to omit Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador becuase Letter.js only allows for words with out spaces. -updated March 2022
• Finally, I would like to provide a fun fact about the country after each round ends.