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Notes: 36 Word Game

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App Plan #

Overview:

  • Word game, vaguely like Wheel of Fortune
  • Going to walk through the construction process here.
  • Going to have DS students build client logic for it for their final assignment and see who can build the most effictive automatic player.

Construction plan:

  • Build the single player app using React / Redux.
  • Move the internal state to the server through a Phoenix Channel.
  • Modify to be multiplayer.

Game Rules #

  • Hangman
  • Guess one letter per turn
  • Points for revealing letters - except vowels.
  • Multiplayer: Most points wins, multiple rounds
    • Multiple rounds lets differnet players go first.

Base strategy to walk through changes: #

Diff is here:

https://github.com/NatTuck/word-game/compare/main...01-single-player