Description

As the term project, you are required to develop a Hangman game with multiple lengths of strings. The game should be simple and easy to use with the help of a mouse or a keyboard. Your application should be able to keep scores of users and store them on a file.

You can use the following statements and figures as guidelines:

 For usability purposes, you are required to implement a graphical user interface (GUI) for your application.

 Your application should have a menu bar which would contain File and Help (see Fig. 1).

Fig. 1: Example Hangman game win screenshot

 At any time, users should be able to quit the game by clicking on the appropriate key combination (Ctrl+Q).

Fig. 2: Example Hangman game lost screenshot

 The game GUI should have a visual keyboard which can be interacted via mouse of arrow buttons.

 The game GUI should include a tip about the string that is expected from the player to guess its letters (Fig. 2) – “Tip: Bruce Willis’ Space Movie”.

 The game GUI should have a list of 6 letters – vowels and nonvowels – that are not in the given string, word or sentence. As shown in Fig. 2: “Not in string: I U X T S J”.

 The GUI should be also indicated the current status of the game – as in “In progress” in blue, “You WON!” in green or “You LOSE!” in red.

 Depending to the string or sentence length there should be a countdown timer next to the status label. The timeout period should be set based on the difficulty of the string – i.e. easier the keyword shorter the time out period.

 All the questions of the game should be stored comma-separated values (CSV) in a text file. The values separated with a comma should be the tip, not-in-string characters, the hidden string and countdown timeout value. This file should be manually created by the programmer. The application should be reading the file and randomly picking a hidden string to ask to the player.

 The File menu should have four submenu items – namely New Game, Reset Game, Score Table and Quit.

Fig. 3: Example Hangman game File Menu

 Players should be able to start a new game by clicking on the (File>New Game) menu item (Fig. 3).

 Players should be able to restart their current attempt without changing the hidden keyword/string by clicking relevant menu (File->Reset Game) item.

 Players should also be able to see the scores list, which contains the list of ten highest scoring players on a separate window by clicking the appropriate menu item (File-> Score Table).

Fig. 4: Example Hangman game Help Menu

 Every time a player fails to identify a character in the hidden string, one of the six body parts – head, torso, left arm, right arm, left arm and right arm – should be added to the picture. After the sixth failed attempt game should and the player should be notified that it has lost the game.

 Last but not least, if a player would like to exit the game should click on the relevant menu item (File->Quit).

 [BONUS] The application should play relevant sounds after each character selection of the player – achievement indicating sound if the chosen character is in the hidden string or failure sound if not.

 [BONUS] The number of text boxes in the GUI should be dynamic based on the size of the hidden string – each box one letter.

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