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bdjnk

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Registered: 2009-08-24

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Game: Hangman (en_US) for your console / command line, written in C

Hangman, as simply as possible. This is basically 80 lines of straightforward C code, and 80000 English words in a giant list.

AUR git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hangman-git/
Source: https://github.com/bdjnk/hangman

For educational purposes, here is a fairly in depth analysis of the code

I haven't utilized this forum much, especially recently, but that's because my Arch installs work perfectly, and never break (seriously).

Speaking of which, this is my first AUR package, and my first C program released for actual public consumption, so if I've done something wrong, please let me know.

Thanks, and enjoy.

Last edited by bdjnk (2015-07-06 00:21:07)

drcouzelis

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Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: Game: Hangman (en_US) for your console / command line, written in C

Very nice! Even though it's small, not many people can say they've written a complete video game.

By the way, it's not true Hang Man unless I see a man get hanged! (But I'd even settle for a text description.)

bdjnk

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Registered: 2009-08-24

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Re: Game: Hangman (en_US) for your console / command line, written in C

Very nice! Even though it's small, not many people can say they've written a complete video game. :)

By the way, it's not true Hang Man unless I see a man get hanged! (But I'd even settle for a text description.) ;)

Thank you :)

I updated. Now it can use any wordlist and has a minimum word size option. Use 'hangman -h' for details.

Unfortunately I didn't yet add in an ASCII art hangman, nor even a description. So far it's non-violent hangman, for our politically correct era ;)

iv597

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Re: Game: Hangman (en_US) for your console / command line, written in C

There's an idea... a "--rated-r" flag to enable "Blood and Gore" mode...

Nice job!

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bdjnk

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Re: Game: Hangman (en_US) for your console / command line, written in C

I've updated the original post with this fairly in depth analysis of the code. I wrote it a while ago, but never linked it. Anyway, there it is for your reading pleasure.

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Re: Game: Hangman (en_US) for your console / command line, written in C

Out of curiosity, why did you choose to not use argp from glibc?

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bdjnk

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Re: Game: Hangman (en_US) for your console / command line, written in C

Out of curiosity, why did you choose to not use argp from glibc?

I don't recall having seen it before. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

Even if I had seen it though, I doubt I would've used it for the same reasons I didn't use getopt. First, excessive overhead for a couple simple arguments. Second, you need to experience the pain before you can appreciate the salve.