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Play Hangman and Learn Kiswahili

By bkmld

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall25162.4227
Fun25132.1227
Innovation25022.2027
Theme23772.7726
Graphics23042.0627
Humor19931.8523
Mood23622.0624

Comments

bkmld 2020-04-20 20:25

Play Hangman and learn Kiswahili at https://bkmgit.gitlab.io/ld46/ source code at https://gitlab.com/bkmgit/ld46

sayumeki 2020-04-21 05:01

Congrats on the submission! I think it would be improved if the letters you already guessed were shown on screen, and that you couldn't guess them again (though this way makes it more of a challenge). Also, if you could have a restart button after the game ends? When I lose, it just keeps showing the same pop-up over and over.

adamv 2020-04-24 03:11

Congrats on making a game! It was challenging playing hangman with a language I don't know. It would be cool if afterwards it showed the definition of the word so I could learn new words!

stickle 2020-04-25 07:26

[edited review in other comment]

penguinbob 2020-04-25 18:29

I like the simplistic graphics. I pressed letters that were in the word, but it did not show up. The language I have never heard of? Never the less good job! Keep making games!

bkmld 2020-04-27 19:20

@sayumeki Thanks for the suggestions. Will update.

@adamv Thanks. This requires a little more effort to add definitions, the wordlists are quite ong, but should be possible for shorter more carefully choosen wordlists.

@stickle Thanks for trying. What went wrong? What happened when you pressed keyboard letter keys?

@guille Thanks for playing. More information on Kiswahili https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_language Updating so that pressed letters are known

stickle 2020-04-27 20:07

@bkmld Oops my bad, I pressed a few keys and it does seem to be trigging this time. Probably just me being an idiot. Strangely I was still getting letters wrong (parts added to the stickman)even if they were right. Nice job on the game! (also I searched umezungukwa online and I'm only getting song results. Curious on what it means)

bkmld 2020-04-27 21:12

@stickle Thanks for the update, automatic translation tools indicate you have been surrounded. The root verb is "Kuzunguka", to go around/circle.

stickle 2020-04-28 01:33

@bkmld Oh cool :)

abdurrahman-khallouf 2020-05-03 16:58

my screen was cut for some reason and I didn't see the entire word

I didn't know how to guess since I don't really know the language.

also the popups are a little bit annoying :) I wish there were more sounds and effects to make it fun.

I mean even by using basic HTML and maybe Jquery libraries you can achieve great results for this.

you clearly used what you are comfortable using. good job.

bkmld 2020-05-03 17:07

@abdurrahman-khallouf Thanks for trying it out and making suggestions. Will fix the issues you mentioned in an upcoming version - cannot fix things in the release version currently undergoing evaluation. Alerts are very old school I guess.

jdk2209 2020-05-03 18:40

Congrats on making a game! It would help a lot if the words definitions were displayed afterwards. Good job ^^

mhsco 2020-05-03 18:56

thought it would be impossible for me, but did seem to learn/guess enough of the phonetics eventually to be able to get a few correct! nice [: maybe could show the meaning of the word after?

bkmld 2020-05-03 19:02

@jdk2209 Thanks for the feedback.

bkmld 2020-05-03 19:05

@mhsco Glad for the feedback. Will add translations, though initially may use an automatic translation service.

flying-dog-fish 2020-05-03 22:11

Interesting idea, making everything with javascript.

Unfortunately it's really hard to play hangman when you don't know any of the words.

grigri-games 2020-05-05 08:16

Hey ! nice game ! a little bug : i got the same alert box telling me i've win, it keep appearing when i close it. Otherwise, good job !

jk5000 2020-05-05 17:49

Jambo. Asante sana

bkmld 2020-05-09 08:21

@flying-dog-fish Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully translations which will be added for future versions will help.

bkmld 2020-05-09 08:22

@grigri-games Thanks for trying it out. Will remove alert box in future version.

bkmld 2020-05-09 13:51

@jk5000 Karibu