Code.org | Unscramble

// https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/42eLJ_-8kwTPIvlSoOLlZ05Bvb82ZefN0_lCJXn9QVQ

// mainScreenIcon image was provided by code.org, labelled as icon://fa-keyboard-o

var wordList = [ // List of words separated into different difficuties.

  // EASY DIFFICULTY

  {word: "CAT", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "DOG", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "BALL", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "FISH", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "TREE", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "BOOK", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "MOON", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "STAR", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "CAKE", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "BIRD", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "SNOW", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "FROG", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "SAND", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "CAR", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "BEE", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "BEAR", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "SHIP", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "LAND", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "BOAT", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "APPLE", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "MILK", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "HAND", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "FOOT", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "GAME", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "KEY", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "DOOR", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "FARM", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "RAIN", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "POND", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "BACK", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "BARK", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "SALT", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "WIND", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "WORM", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "KING", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "QUEEN", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "SPADE", difficulty: "EASY"},
  {word: "JOKE", difficulty: "EASY"},

  // MEDIUM DIFFICULTY

  {word: "TIGER", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "DANCE", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "BREAD", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "GRASS", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "CHAIR", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "OCEAN", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "MUSIC", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "CANDY", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "WATER", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "CLOUD", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "TABLE", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "BRUSH", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "EAGLE", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "TRAIN", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "PAPER", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "WATCH", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "SUGAR", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "SLIME", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "SMILE", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "MONEY", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "GREEN", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "BLUE", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "FIELD", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "CLOCK", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "SHOES", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "STORM", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "ISLAND", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "TRAVEL", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "TICKET", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "JADE", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},
  {word: "ZEBRA", difficulty: "MEDIUM"},

  // HARD DIFFICULTY

  {word: "ELEPHANT", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "FREEDOM", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "UNIVERSE", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "WORLD", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "FOREST", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "SYMPHONY", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "HOSPITAL", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "PICTURE", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "EXERCISE", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "WISDOM", difficulty: "HARD"},
  {word: "HOLOGRAM", difficulty: "HARD"},

];

var messages = [ // List of messages meant to be displayed once players reach a certain score.

  {text: "This is a good start!", amount: 1},
  {text: "Three right-answer-teers!", amount: 3},
  {text: "You are on a roll!", amount: 5},
  {text: "This is impressive!", amount: 8},
  {text: "You're really good at this..!", amount: 10},
  {text: "This is my highest score ever", amount: 14},
  {text: "A whole 20 words with no misses??", amount: 20},
  {text: "How are you doing this?", amount: 22},
  {text: "Okay this is starting to get worrying", amount: 25},
  {text: "You have to be cheating.", amount: 30}


  ];

var currentWord = ""; // Placeholder variabe for the current word chosen
var scrambledWord = ""; // PLaceholder variable for the current word scrambled
var hintUsed = false; // Bool value meant to hold whether or not a hint has been used
var playerScore = 0; // Holds player current score
var playerHighscore = 0; // Holds player highest score

// Main Screen Handlers

onEvent("mainScreenBegin", "click", function(){ // Functions runs when begin button is pressed

  setScreen("gameScreen"); // Sets screen to the game screen
  updateScreen(); // Calls updatescreen() function

});

// Game Screen Handlers

function updateScreen(){ // function ran when UI update is needed

  var randomPick = Math.floor(Math.random() * wordList.length); // Picks a random word from the list of words
  currentWord = wordList[randomPick].word; // Updates currentWord vaue to chosen word
  scrambledWord = scrambleWord(currentWord); // Runs scrambleWord(word) function with currentWord as sent parameter.

  setText("gameScreenScrambleBox", scrambledWord); // Updates the textbox to the scrambled word
  setText("gameScreenDifficulty", wordList[randomPick].difficulty); // Updates textbox to match current word difficulty

  // Series of if-statements ran in order to update the text color of word difficulty text box

  if (wordList[randomPick].difficulty == "EASY") {

    setProperty("gameScreenDifficulty", "text-color", "#17b300");

  } else if (wordList[randomPick].difficulty == "MEDIUM") {

    setProperty("gameScreenDifficulty", "text-color", "#ffcb4c");

  } else {

    setProperty("gameScreenDifficulty", "text-color", "#fb7070");

  }

  // Updates player score and player highscore text boxes

  setText("gameScreenScore", "Score: " + playerScore);
  setText("gameScreenHScore", "Highscore: " + playerHighscore);

  hintUsed = false; // Resets hintUsed to false
  setText("gameScreenHDisplay", ""); // Resets textbox to blank

  setText("gameScreenTextInput", ""); // Resets user input text box to blank

}

// Parameter word holds the current randomly chosen word.
function scrambleWord(word){ // Function ran when sent word needs to be scrambled

  var letters = word.split(""); // Separates characters into individuals and assigns them to the letters list

  for (var i = letters.length - 1; i > 0; i--){ // Loops through all elements in letters list

    var tempIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1)); // Creates a temporary index bet

    var tempVariable = letters[i]; // Temporary variable meant to hold current chosen letter
    letters[i] = letters[tempIndex]; // Changes the value of the letters[i] element to randomly chosen index
    letters[tempIndex] = tempVariable; // Changes the value of letters[tempIndex] element to formerly updated variable

  }

  return letters.join(""); // Joins the individual characters into one chunk of characters (scrambled word)

}


// Parameter bool holds true/false value, true used when added score, false used when removed score.
function updateScore(bool){ // Function ran when score needs to be updated

  if (bool){ // Function ran when bool parameter is true

    playerScore++; // Increases player score by 1

    if (playerScore > playerHighscore){ // Updates player high score if player score is greater than current highest score

      playerHighscore = playerScore;

    }

    for (var i = 0; i < messages.length - 1; i++){ // Loops through messages list

      if (messages[i].amount == playerScore){ // Continues function if the amount in messages list is equal to the player score

        setText("gameMessageDisplay", messages[i].text); // Updates text of the message displaying text box

      }

    }

  } else {

    playerScore = 0; // Resets score to 0 if player anwers incorrectly

    setText("gameMessageDisplay", ""); // Resets message displaying text box to 0

  }

}

onEvent("gameScreenBack", "click", function(){ // Event ran when the back button is pressed

  setScreen("mainScreen"); // Sets screen to main/home screen


});

onEvent("gameScreenSubmit", "click", function(){ // Event ran when the submit button is pressed

  if (getText("gameScreenTextInput").toUpperCase() == currentWord || getText("gameScreenTextInput").toUpperCase() == currentWord + " " ){ // Checks if user inputted text is equal to the current word

    updateScore(true); // Runs update score function with bool set to true

    setProperty("gameScreenTextInput", "border-color", "green");

    // Functions as a one second pause in the middle of the event

    var currTime = getTime();
    while (getTime() - currTime < 1000){}

    // Visual and auditory aspects ran

    setProperty("gameScreenTextInput", "border-color", rgb(153, 153, 153));

    playSound("sound://category_notifications/game_notification_83.mp3"); // Sound provided and owned by code.org.

  } else{

    updateScore(false); // Runs update score function with bool set to false

    setProperty("gameScreenTextInput", "border-color", "red");

    // Functions as a one second pause in the middle of the event

    var currTime0 = getTime();
    while (getTime() - currTime0 < 1000){}

    // Visual and auditory aspects ran

    setProperty("gameScreenTextInput", "border-color", rgb(153, 153, 153));

    playSound("sound://category_alerts/comedy_game_over_1.mp3"); // Sound provided and owned by code.org.

  }

  updateScreen(); // Calls the updatescreen() function

});

onEvent("gameScreenHint", "click", function(){ // Function ran when the hint button is pressed

  var firstLetter = currentWord[0]; // Gathers the first letter of the current word

  // Checks whether the hint has already been used on this word or not.

  if (!hintUsed){ // If hint hasnt been used provides hint and updates hint text box while setting hintUsed variable to true

    setText("gameScreenHDisplay", "THE FIRST LETTER OF THE WORD IS: " + firstLetter);

    hintUsed = true;

  } else { // If hint has been used provides warning and then updates hint text box with current hint

    setText("gameScreenHDisplay", "HINT ALREADY USED!");

    // Functions as a one second pause in the middle of the event

    var currTime = getTime();
    while (getTime() - currTime < 1000){}

    setText("gameScreenHDisplay", "THE FIRST LETTER OF THE WORD IS: " + firstLetter);

  }

});