Budget Word Connect

Caption: Main Menu Screen

Project Overview

I was inspired to create this project when I saw my mom playing 'Word Connect' on her phone. I took on this project as a capstone to further grasp python concepts. I thought the project was simple, yet challenging enough to learn new things along its journey. I was able to utilise file-handling, api/json data; and also further understood the Tkinter library.

• Main Menu Screen
• How to Play Screen (view here)
• Custom UI Graphics
• Three-Strikes & Sixty-Second-Timer Mode
• Previews Currently Selected letters
• Selected letters are disabled upon click
• Game Checks

| ▶️ | Project Showcase Video

Basic Instructions (Modes)

The general idea of the game is to create words from a given set of randomly generated letters. I've programmed 2 different game modes to give slightly more variety to the player. Modes: Three-Strikes and Sixty-Second-Timer.

1. Three-Strikes: The objective of this game mode is to completely fill up all the slots with words without getting 3-Strikes.

   • A strike is given whenever a word that doesn't exist in the English Dictionary is submitted.
   • The strikes are indicated by red squares in the bottom left of the screen. Each time the user gets a strike, a green box is turned to red.
   • When all the boxes have turned red, it is game-over.

2. Sixty-Second-Timer: The objective of this game mode is to completely fill up all the slots with words before the 60 seconds have run out.

   • The 60-Seconds will begin as soon as the user has clicked on the mode. Be prepared to start submitting words. Fill up all slots to win the game.

Download and Play

1. Make sure your system has Python installed. Install Python at python.org. Check if you have Python installed by typing the command python and pressing enter in your command prompt or terminal. If a prompt like >>> shows up, then Python is installed.

2. You can check if Git is installed on your system by typing git in the terminial; if no errors are returned, it is installed. If git is installed you can simply copy & paste the commands below to play the game ... (if Git is not installed, Skip to Step 3)

   git clone https://github.com/unix2dossss/budget-word-connect.git
   cd budget-word-connect
   python3 main.py 

   • if python3 returns an error, try python.

3. If Git is not installed on your system, you can simply download and extract the zip.

cd budget-word-connect
python3 main.py

References

1. WordsAPI (API) used (in version 0.1) to randomly generate words and to check validity of submitted words.
   • Used Wordsapy as a Python Wrapper for WordsAPI as it is only released for versions < Python 3.0.

2. JSON file containing over 466k English words used to replace Words API with something more efficient that will maximize game performance. (version 1).

Bugs or Issues

If you find a bug or have an issue with Budget Word Connect, feel free to Submit an Issue