Build a Hangman Game With Python and PySimpleGUI

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December 06, 2023
Build a Hangman Game With Python and PySimpleGUI
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Wouldn’t it be cool to build a hangman game with a nice graphical user interface (GUI) in Python? Maybe you’ve built a text-based user interface version of hangman, and now you want to make an even more attractive game. For you as a Python programmer, building a GUI version of this game can be a rewarding challenge that can take you to the next skill level.

Throughout this tutorial, you’ll build the hangman game in Python in a series of steps. The game will have a neat graphical interface based on the PySimpleGUI library.

In this tutorial, you’ll:

  • Create a GUI for your hangman game using PySimpleGUI
  • Implement the logic for the hangman game
  • Connect the game’s logic with its GUI layer
  • Handle the game results and provide other options

To get the most from this tutorial, you should be comfortable with general Python programming, including how to lay out a project. You should also have some experience working with graphical user interfaces, especially those based on PySimpleGUI. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge about game programming, but it would be a plus.

All the code that you’ll write in this tutorial is available for download. You can get it by clicking the link below:

Demo: Hangman With Python and PySimpleGUI

In this tutorial, you’ll write an implementation of hangman using Python and PySimpleGUI. Once you’ve run all the steps to build the game, then you’ll end up with a graphical user interface (GUI) that will work something like the following:

In this tutorial, you’ll run through several challenges designed to help you solve specific game-related problems. Ultimately, you’ll have a hangman game that works like the demo above.

Project Overview

When creating a GUI version of hangman, you’ll use a GUI framework that can handle a text-based game like hangman while still providing the ability to draw a hanged man. There are several good GUI engines available for Python. While you can use any of them to good effect, you’ll rely on PySimpleGUI in this tutorial.

PySimpleGUI is a wrapper around several well-known GUI frameworks and libraries, such as Tkinter, wxPython, and PyQt. It allows you to design a GUI as data. You’ll use the Tkinter wrapper in this tutorial, but you can explore the wxPython and QT wrappers on PyPI.

While many people know hangman well, it’s helpful to have a formal description of the game. You’ll use this description to resolve programming issues later during development. The game’s description could vary from person to person. In this tutorial, you’ll describe the game as follows:

  • Game setup: The game of hangman is for two or more players, comprising a selecting player and one or more guessing players.
  • Word selection: The selecting player selects a word that the guessing players will try to guess.
    • The selected word is traditionally represented as a series of underscores for each letter in the word.
    • The selecting player also draws a scaffold to hold the hangman illustration.
  • Guessing: The guessing players attempt to guess the word by selecting letters one at a time.
  • Feedback: The selecting player indicates whether each guessed letter appears in the word.
    • If the letter appears, then the selecting player replaces each underscore with the letter as it appears in the word.
    • If the letter doesn’t appear, then the selecting player writes the letter in a list of guessed letters. Then, they draw the next piece of the hanged man. To draw the hanged man, they begin with the head, then the torso, the arms, and the legs for a total of six parts.
  • Winning conditions: The selecting player wins if the hanged man drawing is complete after six incorrect guesses, in which case the game is over. The guessing players win if they guess the word.
    • If the guess is right, the game is over, and the guessing players win.
    • If the guess is wrong, the game continues.

A game in progress is shown below. In this game, the word is hangman:

A game of hangman in progress

In this tutorial, you’ll make a few additional design decisions while writing the hangman game in Python:

  • The game will be between the computer and one human player.
  • The computer will act as the selecting player and will select the word to guess, process human input, and handle all output.
  • The human player is the guessing player, hereafter simply referred to as the player. When the player knows the word, they continue to guess correct letters until the word is complete.

With this basic understanding of the game and some design decisions for the computer version, you can begin creating the game. First, however, you need to be aware of some knowledge requirements.

Prerequisites

The project that that you’ll build in this tutorial will require familiarity with general Python programming. You should have basic knowledge of the following topics:

However, if you don’t have all this knowledge yet, then that’s okay! You might learn more by going ahead and giving the project a shot. You can always stop and review the resources linked here if you get stuck.

Read the full article at https://realpython.com/hangman-python-pysimplegui/ »

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