Useful information

This is a console guessing game that I've started writing mainly because I want to make sure that I understand the core programming concepts. It consists of 3 main components:

• Main menu
• Main game
• Rules section

How to get the source code

To run the program, first you need to get the contents of the repository. In order to do that, make sure that you have Git installed by writing

git --version

After you did that, you need to navigate to a directory in which you want to clone the repository

cd PATH

Example:

• On Windows it can either contain backslashes: cd C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME

• or regular slashes: cd C:/Users/YOUR_USERNAME

On macOS or Linux the paths can only have forward slashes:

cd /YOUR_USERNAME/Desktop

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Alexdragon737/console_guessing_game

cd guessingGame

Make sure that the code is up to date with the commits from the remote repo

git pull

Use a code editor of your choice(VSCode or Visual Studio Community are my personal choices) to open and edit the source if you feel like modifying some of it in order to make the code look cleaner or such.

Core components of the game

Main menu

The end-user is greeted by a welcome message, and is prompted to introduce a numerical value between 1 and 3, in order to choose from the following options, in this exact order:

1. Start the game
2. See the rules
3. Quit the application

Rules section

The end-user is greeted by a message in which the "rules" of the game are explained.

Main game

The end-user is prompted to input a numerical value, representing the difficulty, from 1 to 4. The difficulty level are as they follow:

1. Baby level - the end-user needs to guess a pseudo-generated number ranging from 1 to 10
2. Intermediate - the end-user needs to guess a pseudo-generated number ranging from 1 to 100
3. Advanced - the end-user needs to guess a pseudo-generated number ranging from 1 to 1000
4. Nostradamus or some crap - the end-user needs to guess a pseudo-generated number ranging from 0 to RAND_MAX. As per C++ documentation, the RAND_MAX value is library dependent, but with the most basic implementation it should be at least 32767. In this case I made the rand() function to generate values up to the numeric limit of unsigned int, more exactly to 4294967295.

The game also features a hardcore mode, which integrates a lives system. The lives are calculated as an arithmetic progression with a₁ = 10 and the general term a_n = 10-3*(diff-1), so the initial lives for each difficulty would be:

1. Baby level - 10 lives
2. Intermediate - 7 lives
3. Advanced - 4 lives
4. Nostradamus or some crap - 1 life

Quitting the application

As of now, the "Quit the application" option is just the shortest way to the actual end of the program, but maybe I'll try to implement a dedicated function to completely kill the program in the future.