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extends TextureRect
var secret # Word player is trying to guess
var display # Partially completed word displayed on screen
var alphabet # Letters the player can guess from
var num_missed # Number of wrong guesses the player has made
var game_over # Whether the game has ended yet
# Secret words to select from
var words = ["godot", "game", "script"]
# Strings displayed to the user
var user_strings
# Called on program start
func _ready():
randomize();
words = get_from_json("words.json")
user_strings = get_from_json("user_strings.json")
setup_game()
# Set up a new game
func setup_game():
# Set up alphabet, secret word, and displayed word
alphabet = user_strings["alphabet"]
pick_random_word()
setup_word_display()
#Initialize variables and display
game_over = false
$GameOver.text = ""
$AgainButton.visible = false
$AgainButton/AgainText.text = user_strings["again"]
$Word.text = display
$Alphabet.text = alphabet
num_missed = 0
$Image.play("0")
# Choose a random word
func pick_random_word():
# Make sure it's different from the previous word
var previous_word = secret
while secret == previous_word:
secret = words[randi() % words.size()]
# Make sure it's all lower case
secret = secret.to_lower()
# Create word display of all underscores
func setup_word_display():
display = ""
for i in range(secret.length()):
# If character is in the guessable alphabet, display an underscore
# and make the player guess it. If not, just show the character.
# This allows spaces and punctuation in secret words/phrases.
if alphabet.find(secret[i]) >= 0:
display = display + "_"
else:
display = display + secret[i]
# Called when play again button is pressed
func _on_AgainButton_pressed():
setup_game()
# Called when there is user input
func _input(event):
# See if event is a keyboard press
if event.is_pressed() and not game_over:
# Get guess that player pressed
var guess = event.as_text().to_lower()
# NOTE: We shouldn't assume that 'guess' is a single character!
# It might be something like 'escape', 'space', or 'inputeventmousebutton'.
# However, those strings won't be found in 'alphabet', so the code won't
# try to interpret them as a guess. (It will treat them as a guess that
# has already been made and is being ignored.)
handle_guess(guess)
check_for_game_over()
# Handle user guess
func handle_guess(guess):
# See if letter has been guessed already
var guessed = alphabet.find(guess) == -1
if not guessed:
# Remove letter from available alphabet
alphabet = alphabet.replace(guess, " ")
$Alphabet.text = alphabet
# See if guessed letter is in the secret word
var found = false
var i = secret.find(guess)
while i > -1:
found = true
# Show guessed letter in the displayed word
display = display.left(i) + guess + display.right(i + 1)
$Word.text = display
# See if there's another instance of this lettter
i = secret.findn(guess, i + 1)
if not found:
num_missed = num_missed + 1
# See if user has won or lost
func check_for_game_over():
# See if word is completely guessed
if display.find("_") == -1:
game_over = true
$GameOver.text = user_strings["you win"]
$AgainButton.visible = true
# Show appropriate image and see if player has lost
if num_missed < 6:
# Image has animations named "0", "1", "2", etc that
# correspond to the number of missed guesses
$Image.play(String(num_missed))
else:
game_over = true
$Image.play("lose")
$GameOver.text = user_strings["you lose"]
$Word.text = secret
$AgainButton.visible = true
# Read data from a json file
func get_from_json(filename):
var file = File.new()
file.open(filename, File.READ)
var text = file.get_as_text()
var data = parse_json(text)
file.close()
return data
